{"id":983,"date":"2010-01-15T13:18:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T13:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=983"},"modified":"2010-03-24T13:18:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T13:18:28","slug":"40m-fund-for-historic-buildings-axed-by-hefce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=983","title":{"rendered":"\u00a340m fund for historic buildings axed by HEFCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Higher Education Funding Council for  England (HEFCE) has withdrawn its old and historic building fund, worth  \u00a340 million, as one of a package of measures designed to meet  government cuts to the higher education budget in 2010-11. \u00a0The fund  helped Universities to pay for the maintenance of their historic  buildings. The decision will have the biggest impact on Oxbridge: the  University of Oxford currently receives \u00a35.1 million a year from the  fund, and the University of Cambridge gets \u00a34.2 million. HEfCE said the  plans were in response to an order by Lord Mandelson, the Secretary of  State for Business, Innovation and Skills, to make savings.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.bis.gov.uk\/higher-education-funding-2010-11\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bis.gov.uk\/higher-education-funding-2010-11\">Link to  BIS Article<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/education\/2009\/oct\/29\/universities-historic-buildings-funds-cut\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/education\/2009\/oct\/29\/universities-historic-buildings-funds-cut\">Link  to Guardian News Article<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/story.asp?storycode=409677\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/story.asp?storycode=409677\">Link  to Times Higher Educational Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has withdrawn its old and historic building fund, worth \u00a340 million, as one of a package of measures designed to meet government cuts to the higher education budget in 2010-11. \u00a0The fund &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=983\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}