4Ps Party-list Rep. Marcelino Libanan (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) Here's a way to help increase the number of doctors that the Philippines badly needs. House Minority Leader 4Ps Party-list Rep. Marcelino “Nonoy” Libanan wants the...
Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero on Friday, March 1 urged the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to regulate their commissioners’ expenses during their visits to state colleges and universities (SUCs) and out-of-town meetings. Escudero made the call amid criticisms hurled at CHED...
Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva said on Tuesday, January 2, he expects there is sufficient coordination between the Department of Education (DepEd) and the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to ensure that there will be no disruption in the education of students. This was after CHED...
Despite cuts for some institutions, state universities and colleges (SUCs) have secured a P21 billion increase in their 2024 budgets. (Ali Vicoy / Manila Bulletin File Photo) According to a Kabataan Partylist Facebook post, the total budget for 2024 was P128 billion, which is more than even...
Various State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) in Metro Manila demanded that the P6 billion budget cut on state universities be reversed and that more funds be allocated to them to address the "crisis" in the education sector. (Alliance of Concerned Teachers) The Alliance of Concerned...
A group on Tuesday, Nov. 14, decried the “neglect” of State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) by the House of Representatives in the realignments it made on the proposed 2024 national budget. (MARK BALMORES / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) “It seems our representatives have failed to see and...
A Pulse Asia survey commissioned by the office of Senator Sherwin Gatchalian showed that 98 percent of Filipinos favor free tuition in public universities. Based on the survey, 99 percent are in favor among those in Classes A, B and C; 97 percent in Class D and 100 percent in Class E....
Senator Chiz Escudero has expressed his support for the partial payment to the state universities and colleges (SUCs), since the government, while looking at ways to reimburse, cannot pay in full the demand of the SUCs due to budgetary constraints. Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero presides over the...
The Senate on Monday, September 25 approved on third and final reading several local bills that seek the conversion and establishment of schools across the country. Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Higher, Technical and Vocational Education and...
Cagayan de Oro City 2nd district Rep. Rufus Rodriguez (Facebook) The country’s agricultural sector will take an indirect hit if the P6.2-billion budget cut suffered by 30 state universities and colleges (SUCs) won't get restored under the P5.768-trillion...
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has tapped faculty members from state universities and colleges (SUCs) and higher education institutions (HEIs) around the country to join its pool of experts tasked with reviewing proposed development projects' environmental impact...
Senator Francis Tolentino on Tuesday, March 7 urged officials from the academe to beef-up its monitoring on the activities of “non-recognized” organizations within their respective colleges and universities. Tolentino, chairman of the Senate Committee on Justice and Human Rights, made the...
