FR. JOEL TABORA, S.J.
FR. JOEL TABORA, S.J.

IN the excitement of President Rodrigo Duterte’s signing the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act (RA 10931 or EAQTEA), people have jumped to wanting to implement it without reading it. Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno has declared that he will head the formulation of the new law’s implementing rules and regulations (IRRs), and Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) commissioner Popoy de Vera has come out in a Malacañang press briefing to describe a staggered implementation of the law, first funding free tuition in the state universities and colleges (SUCs), then in accredited local universities and colleges (LUCs), then presumably the Unified Student Financial Assistance System for Tertiary Education Act (UniFAST) over a period of three or four years, if I understood him correctly.

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