{"id":421,"date":"2011-03-27T11:25:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T10:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/?p=421"},"modified":"2011-03-27T11:25:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T10:25:44","slug":"scottish-budget-boost-for-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/scottish-budget-boost-for-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Budget boost for Colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angus and Mearns candidate Sanjay Samani has welcomed the major concessions to this year\u2019s Scottish Budget secured by Liberal Democrat MSPs which will help Aberdeen, Angus and Dundee Colleges.<\/p>\n<p>Concessions made to the Liberal Democrats include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Additional funding for FE bursaries of \u00a315 million, spread across 2010-2011-12 to provide additional student support for current student numbers.<\/li>\n<li>Additional funding of \u00a38 million in 2011-12 that would support an additional 1,200 college places and associated student support.<\/li>\n<li>1,500 additional Modern Apprenticeships, including 500 places for the renewables sector, at a cost of \u00a32 million<\/li>\n<li>2,000 additional flexible training opportunities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sanjay commented,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;40,000 students across Scoltand were going to have their budgets slashed by the SNP Government, but this has been reversed thanks to the Lib Dems working hard for you at Holyrood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a better budget than the SNP presented in November. \u00a0It is better for young people in the Mearns wanting the skills they need to find jobs, helping our local economy. \u00a0It is \u00a0better for colleges in Angus, Dundee and Aberdeen, that will be able to provide more opportunities. \u00a0 And it is better for Angus and Mearns businesses that will be able to take on more apprentices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is also great to hear that the National Union of Students support what we have done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Commenting Liam Burns, President of NUS Scotland, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis is great news and testament to the hard work of thousands of college students across Scotland and the Scottish Liberal Democrats. Students across colleges and universities have mobilised fantastically well, with over 32,000 letters and emails sent to MSPs on this issue. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To win \u00a315m college bursaries, and \u00a38m for college places, in a budget which is being cut is a fantastic result. \u00a0We hope this will now end the yearly ritual of college bursaries running out and end the threat of cuts to 40,000 of our poorest students.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lib Dems have secured an additional \u00a323m in the Scottish budget for college places and bursaries, helping students, colleges and local businesses faced with cuts.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[119],"tags":[147,194,98,143,146,221,144,145],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VHxS-6N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}