Manila, Philippines - The University of the Philippines (UP) through president Danilo Conception has issued a memorandum on Tuesday saying that no collection of tuition fees and other schools fees from Filipino undergraduate students throughout its system.
The announcement was issued in Updated Diliman website, it stated that memorandum number PDLC 17-218 was issued "in the spirit of the recently promulgated Universal Access to Tertiary Education Otherwise known as Republic Act Number 10931 which was signed into law by President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday."
The said law will take effect in the next school year, 2018-2019 and would cover all state universities and colleges, but UP decided to bite the bullet and begin the implementation immediately, with the current schoolyear. An existing tuition subsidy form CHED will be utilized while miscellaneous fees will be shouldered from each constituent university's own funds.
UP system is composed of eight constituent universities namely: Diliman, Baguio, Los Banos, Manila, Mindanao, Visayas, Cebu, and open University. UP Diliman earlier suspended collection of tuition for the first semester for the coming school year, which was supposed to begin in August pending what it said as clearer guidelines from CHED on free tuition in state universities and colleges9SUCs).
Tan said in July 13 that the university may collect from the students later in the year, once the guidelines were released. Currently SUCs do not charge tuition in the first semester because of the P8 billion inserted by the Senate in the 2017 Natinala Budget for SUCs, supposedly coming from the pork barrels of lawmen from their pet projects, that the lower house has approved.
Meanwhile UP Diliman will released guidelines by tomorrow August 9, 2017 in relation to the ongoing enrollment.
Meanwhile UP Diliman will released guidelines by tomorrow August 9, 2017 in relation to the ongoing enrollment.
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