{"id":36978,"date":"2018-02-16T13:34:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T13:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/govt-raises-university-fees-allowances\/"},"modified":"2018-02-20T10:18:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T10:18:23","slug":"govt-raises-university-fees-allowances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/govt-raises-university-fees-allowances\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt raises university fees, allowances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Education, Dr. Eugene Mutimura announced the move on Friday while speaking to the parliamentary standing committee on Education, ICT, Culture and Youth.<br \/>\nMutimura said that the increase of bursary is in line with the government\u2019s commitment to sustain the welfare of students.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mutimura, new changes will take effect in next year\u2019s National Budget starting from July. <\/p>\n<p>On school fees, Mutimura said that science students will pay Rwf2 million from the current Rwf900,000 while humanities students will pay Rwf800,000 from Rwf600,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Education has announced that the government has increased living allowances for university students from Rwf25,000 to Rwf35,000 and increased school fees of different courses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36978"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36978"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}