{"id":11823,"date":"2019-10-28T14:16:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T11:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=11823"},"modified":"2019-10-28T14:17:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T11:17:22","slug":"makerere-university-halts-tuition-increment-after-bloody-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/28\/makerere-university-halts-tuition-increment-after-bloody-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Makerere University Halts Tuition Increment After Bloody Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Makerere University administration has bowed to students\u2019 pressure and announced a halt on the 15% cumulative tuition increment that had led students protests in the last couple of days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This revelation was made earlier today at a press conference at the University where the acting VC, Umar Kakumba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This comes after over four days of striking by students over the 15% tuition increment that was earlier announced by the university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many students however remain locked up for striking while others have been suspended from the University over the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018Most students who participated in the strike were discontinued from studying in the previous years, they only turn up when there\u2019s a strike, they want to stir violence. They are nolonger our students, some belong to different opposition groups,&#8221; acting MAK VC, Umar Kakumba said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Makerere University administration has bowed to students\u2019 pressure and announced a halt on the 15% cumulative tuition increment that had led students protests in the last couple of days. This revelation was made earlier today at a press conference at the University where the acting VC, Umar Kakumba. This comes after over four days of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10448,"featured_media":11824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[432,98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-11823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10448"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11826,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11823\/revisions\/11826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}