Students gear up for mobilizations in Congress for the national budget deliberations to protest the scant budget allotted for basic social services and staggering budget cut to State Universities and Colleges (SUCs). In the proposed 2011 National Budget, there will be a 1.7% decline in budget for SUCs. The University of the Philippines (UP) will…
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Youth Groups Challenge Noynoy to be an ‘Education President’
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
”For so many years, the government has failed to regulate tuition increases because of the Education Act of 1991 which grants free rein to school-owners to hike their tuition, consistent with the policy of deregulation,” said Rep. Raymond Palatino of Kabataan Party.
Students, Youth Groups Expose School Violations of CHED Order
Press Release March 23, 2010 Christian Rosler Esturco, a 3rd year AB Legal Studies student from Lyceum University, is one among the many students nationwide barred from taking their exams due to pending arrears. He received failing marks in his subjects last year after his school denied him from taking the finals without a fully…
Youth Group Challenges Presidentiables to Take Stand vs PUP Tuition Hike, Uphold Education Agenda
MEDIA RELEASE March 20, 2010 Youth organizations led by Kabataan Partylist today challenged presidential aspirants to take a stand against the impending 2,000 percent tuition increase in the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP). There is a pending proposal to increase PUP tuition from P12 per unit to P200 per unit. The proposed increase is…
NUSP to CHED: Pass Tuition Moratorium or Stop Existing
NEWS RELEASE March 1, 2010 The National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP), together with Kabataan Partylist and students from different public and private schools, stormed CHED to protest against the wave of tuition and other fee increase for the next academic year. “We have attended tuition consultations and gathered data on tuition and…
Eighteen Schools Still Violate Anti-‘No Permit, No Exam’ Policy
NEWS RELEASE February 27, 2010 Kabataan Partylist Executive Vice President Carl Marc Ramota today enumerated schools that are not implementing the Commission on Higher Education’s (CHED) anti-‘no permit, no exam’ policy memorandum. Ramota said that the list is based on the compiled complaints of parents and students to Kabataan Partylist and NUSP’s (National Union of…
National Student Leaders’ Confab Set in the North
By RODA TAJON Northern Dispatch Bulatlat.com VIGAN CITY— On the 52nd year of the National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) it will hold its National Students Congress for the first time at the heritage city of Ilocos Sur. On December 10 to 14, some 300 student leaders from student councils and governments and…
Students Across the Philippines Walk Out of Classes to Protest Cha-Cha
Organizers said the July 10 walkout was a build-up to a much bigger protest action on President Arroyo’s ninth and last State of the Nation Address in Congress on July 27. “The youth shall make sure that this shall really be Arroyo’s last Sona,” Alvin Peters of NUSP said. View slideshow
Slideshow: Defiant Students Brave the Rain, Bomb Scare to Protest Cha-Cha
Students Walk Out of Classes Vs Cha-Cha
Students to Walk Out of Their Classes to Fight Cha-Cha
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Students from all over the country are set to walk out of their classrooms tomorrow, July 10, to protest the moves by the Arroyo regime to amend the Constitution. The national walkout-protest against charter-change will be led by Kabataan Partylist and the Kabataan Kontra Cha-Cha and to…
Students Intensify Efforts to Stop Hikes in Tuition, Other Fees
Students from various state and private higher education institutions held a series of protests against another impending round of fee hikes for the coming school year. In the midst of the global financial crisis, students argued that increasing the cost of education will drive them out of schools. BY JEFFREY OCAMPO Contributor Bulatlat Students from…