By DEE AYROSO
Schools, if only
Tags: free education
Youth decries gov’t ‘maneuvers’ against free education
“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.”
Students camp out of Ched office to call for free education
“Education should be devoid of policies that are for business, commercialization and profit.”
‘Bogus’ | Youth groups slam Senate-approved bill on ‘free college’
“As if to mock Kristel and all the victims of the rotten education system, Duterte’s cohorts in Congress and Senate are pushing for a ‘free tuition’ policy that will allow the nationwide implementation of UP’s STS – the very policy that killed Kristel.”
Progressive youths to fight for ‘free public education at all levels’
Will the increased education budget equate to free college for all? Youth groups vow to make it so.
Some good news; Can there be more?
At the onset of the Christmas and New Year holidays, probably the gladdest and most welcome news, particularly for poor families, is that for at least 1.4 million students in 114 state universities and colleges (SUCs) across the nation, tuition will be free in 2017. An editorial of the Philippine Daily Inquirer notes that the…