Free education excites militants

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ILOILO City – Militant youth group Anakbayan-Panay welcomed the Senate bill seeking free tertiary education through full subsidy of state universities and colleges (SUCs).
The group has been pushing for this policy in every rallies demanding sufficient budget to the education sector to make it accessible to all.
Nearly 15 million out-of-school youths will be given the chance to study if the bill is passed into law, according to Bryan Bosque, Anakbayan-Panay spokesperson.
However, Anakbayan-Panay admitted it still has to scrutinize the bill for the specifics of the proposed legislation.
“While we welcome efforts to make education accessible to all, we still have to look at the specific provisions of the bill because it might be a burden to the people instead of being beneficial,” Bosque said in a statement.
Meanwhile, the group criticized the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) for expressing opposition on the Senate proposale. CHED chairperson Patricia Licuanan claimed full subsidy of SUCs would lead to an exodus of students from private to public schools.
She stressed that the subsidy through socialized tuition schemes is already enough for SUCs.
“CHED’s true color was once again revealed by concerning more to the income of private schools rather than educating the youth. This is another testament that CHED is not after student welfare but for profits of private schools,” according to the group.
Even if there is no bill seeking to fully subsidize SUCs, there is already a massive migration of students from private to public schools because of CHED’s failure to regulate the skyrocketing fees of the private schools, it noted.
“We don’t believe socialized tuition schemes are already enough subsidies for SUCs. These schemes failed to help the poor. These are even used as instruments to milk profit out of the poor families’ pockets because of its discriminatory and deceptive nature,” Anakbayan stressed.
Not all students from low-income families are listed to a free tuition bracket, it claimed./PN

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