Senatorial candidate Teddy Casiño on Tuesday urged the Aquino administration to reinstate the P17 billion slashed last year from the budget proposal of state universities and colleges (SUCs), and to incorporate that amount in the 2014 budget.
Following the deliberations on the proposed increase in funding of state universities and colleges (SUCs) next year, House committee on higher and technical education chair Aurora Representative Juan Edgardo Angara said that he is hoping that institutions would not squander the additional budget.
With no less than President Benigno Aquino III as witness, the presidents of 110 state universities and colleges (SUCs) signed recently, with the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd), the Covenant on Philippine Public Higher Education Reform.
Student leaders from state universities and colleges (SUCs) on Panay and Guimaras Islands have deplored cuts in the education budget next year, warning of increased dropouts especially of students coming from poor families.
The government has asked officials of state universities and colleges (SUC) to study, survey and profile their students to prove that their schools have been serving the poor in the provinces.
MANILA, Philippiines — Malacanang on Saturday called on students of state universities and colleges to concentrate on their studies rather than walk of out their classrooms to protest supposed budget cuts in the budget of SUCs. Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Abigail Valte made the remarks after SUC students held a mass action that included planking in [...]
Malacañang on Friday said that it was not ignoring the concerns of state universities and colleges, and that the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) had its allotment increased by 11 percent in the 2012 expenditure program.
