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BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
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Wednesday, November 8, 2017
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ILOILO City – A laboratory fee of P3,000 was erroneously inputted in the computer database system of Central Philippine University (CPU), making it appear that its Grade 12 senior high school students have to pay this additional amount.
CPU president Dr. Teodoro Robles told Panay News the university was instituting the necessary correction.
“We will not charge a laboratory fee if (the subject has) no laboratory,” clarified Robles.
He apologized to the parents and students for the inadvertent error that was reflected in the registration forms of Grade 12 students.
“I think what happened was, without proper consultation, they added in the base computer data that if it is a certain subject, there is a laboratory. They assumed that there is a lab, but there is no lab. For example, Chemistry (subject),” said Robles.
He did not say who these they that he was referring to.
CPU senior high school students are only charged P25,000 tuition per semester plus P6,000 miscellaneous fees, said Robles.
“We are glad that this was brought up or I would not have discovered the erroneous addition of the (laboratory) fee,” he added.
A mother of a CPU Grade 12 student recently complained that “the school management met with us parents a few days ago, telling us not to worry because all fees would not be hiked.” She cried foul upon learning that she had to pay more.
Robles said those who already paid the erroneous additional fee would be reimbursed.
He also said he would be discussing with CPU’s vice president for finance “how we can make changes in the computer system” to avoid a repeat of the error.
“We apologize. We did not intend to do that,” stressed Robles.
The university president also clarified the alleged “overloading of subjects” for senior high school students.
Parents complained that their children were taking from eight to 12 subjects in one semester and what this would do to the students daily if the university followed the one-hour per subject norm.
“That is an incorrect interpretation. It’s only four hours a week for each subject,” said Robles.
Students won’t be spending 12 hours a day in school for their classes, he stressed./PN
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