{"id":6063,"date":"2023-06-30T19:24:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T07:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6063"},"modified":"2023-06-30T19:24:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T07:24:28","slug":"massive-845m-for-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6063","title":{"rendered":"Massive $845m for education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Education sector is allocated a massive $845million from the 2023-2024 National budget the highest allocation given.<\/p>\n<p>This is a massive increase compared to $489.9million in the last fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Professor Biman Prasad says this is to allow the coalition government to re-look at the education system in a consultative manner.<\/p>\n<p>This includes the appointment of an Education Commission for an Education Summit where these forums will provide proper dialogues to chart a way forward to help lift the standard of education in Fiji.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Prasad says the Ministry of Education is allocated a budget of $505.4million which is an increase of $18.4million.<\/p>\n<p>Source: FBC News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Education sector is allocated a massive $845million from the 2023-2024 National budget the highest allocation given. This is a massive increase compared to $489.9million in the last fiscal year. Finance Minister Professor Biman Prasad says this is to allow the coalition government to re-look at the education system in a consultative manner. This includes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiji-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6065,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6063\/revisions\/6065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}