Comments on: State abandonment of higher education

By: PUP students protest proposed 2,000% tuition hike « Victor Villanueva

PUP students protest proposed 2,000% tuition hike « Victor Villanueva — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:58:08 +0000

[...] We were right. State college EARIST (Eulogio Amang Rodriguez Institute of Science & Technology) increased its tuition a year later, using the UP situation as a justification. State universities have since then been imposing various dubiously-named fees as a result of budget cuts imposed by the government. [...]

By: bikoy.net | A temporary relief for state universities & colleges

bikoy.net | A temporary relief for state universities & colleges — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:20:32 +0000

[...] tuition and other fee increases. The statement only proves that our analysis as correct, that budget cuts and tuition increases are state policies that harm the future of the youth and the [...]

By: bikoy.net | We make the university, they make the crisis

bikoy.net | We make the university, they make the crisis — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:15:38 +0000

[...] many of the appointed administrators of state universities are resigned, even subservient, to the government’s policy of reducing government support to SUC’s. This year, the total allocation for the country’s 110 state universities and its almost 1 [...]

By: bikoy.net | UC students walk-out against commercialization of California State U’s

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:13:16 +0000

[...] serious in California where public institutions enroll 79% of all college and university students. The share in the Philippines is 35% in 2008 (from only 10% in 1980). These figures should actually reinforce the policy of strengthening support to public higher [...]