Sun.Star Daily Publication Date: [June 19, 2006]
Sun.Star Daily’s June 14 issue published a news item which mentioned my supposed citing of a rumored “200 to 600 percent” increase in UP Cebu’s tuition.
I would like to clarify that the said UP Cebu tuition hike is a P200 to P600 per unit increase or a 200 percent increase. Likewise, the proposed adjustment is not a mere rumor but is the real result of the Arroyo administration’s policy of abandoning its responsibilities to provide accessible education.
According to the UP Student Regent, a committee formed by UP President Emerlinda Roman to review UP’s tuition policy just proposed a UP system-wide increase for all undergraduate tuition.
Despite such, the Arroyo government has continued to delude the people with praise releases about its achievements in the field of education, even to the extent of claiming the existence of a tuition hike moratorium for all State Universities this year.
The really sorry state of Philippine education and the approval of tuition increases in the UP Manila College of Medicine and UP Extension Program in Pampanga disprove such empty talk.
In the end, it is these false realities that must be brought to light, brought out into the public, and confronted.
By Karlo Mikhail Mongaya
Chairperson, Student Council
UP Visayas – Cebu College
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