Members of a student chapter of Gabriela Women's Party also joined the walk-out protest to denounce the budget cuts on education. Here are some of them at the rally program in Plaza Miranda, Manila

A sea of students with their placards and organizations' flags pass through the Quezon Boulevard Underpass on their way to Malacanang Palace from Plaza Miranda

Students from the University of the Philippines in Diliman joined the protest action. The University of the Philippines will get the largest budget cut amounting to P1.9 billion. Proposals to increase tuition to P100,000 a semester has been introduced by UP's administration officials to raise the university's income

Students removed the barbed wire barricades on Mendiola Bridge to be able to get closer to Malacanang Palace. Greatly outnumbered, the police eventually retreated behind the gates and allowed the student demonstrators to hold their program on the historic bridge

Students hold a program at Mendiola to express their collective outrage against the Aquino administration's proposed budget cuts on education and other social services