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The proposed GE cuts are part of a neoliberal approach to education that prioritizes efficiency, cost-cutting, and marketable skills over universities’ broader mission of fostering critical inquiry.
“As CHED has confessed, it limits free education beneficiaries so as to prevent exodus from private schools and to ensure enrollees and profits for private schools.”
Does anyone still believe that every government bureaucrat, or, for that matter, everyone in the private sector, or your average gossip-prone neighbor, can keep a secret — that they can keep in confidence information such as who has tested positive or has simply...
Data culled by Kabataan Partylist showed that most private HEIs earn billions a year and have been listed in the Top 1000 corporations in the Philippines.
“Where did these funds go? Why are these funds unliquidated? Clearly, there is something fishy going on.”
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld As in several years past, the start of classes in June was preceded by two announcements unwelcome to those who have to pay for their own or their children’s education. Although bad enough in themselves, these...
“Aquino gave the go signal for schools to hike fees; he is the enabler of the deregulated status of education.”
The official student publication of the University of Northern Philippines (UNP)-Vigan, Tandem, is currently experiencing campus press freedom violations. BY ZOFIA LEAL Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 36, October 13-20, 2007 VIGAN CITY (407 kms north of Manila) – The...
BY HANNAH FAITH S. DORMIDO Bulatlat Posted 5:25 p.m., May 15, 2008 Youth groups staged a protest action in front of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to demand an immediate moratorium on tuition increases given the present socio-economic crisis. “Parents...
BY HANNAH FAITH DORMIDO Bulatlat In this time of crisis, a Christian youth group has called called on church-run private colleges and universities to freeze tuition hikes. The appeal was made by the Student Christian Movement of the Philippines (SCMP) weeks before...
BY BULATLAT Amid the economic crisis, a legislator called on the the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to provide guidelines to stop any tuition increase for school year 2009-2010. Bayan Muna Representative Teodoro Casiño expressed this to CHED officials at the...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Members of the cause-oriented League of Filipino Students have called on the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Chairman Emmanuel Angeles to enforce a moratorium on tuition increases in light of the global economic crisis....
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