CHED, state schools asked to offer free tuition now

The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and administrators of State Universities and Colleges should immediately implement free tuition in the SUCs in light of the Senate’s allotment of at least P8.3 billion to provide free tuition for all SUC students.

“The move to provide free tuition for SUCs is long overdue. Students, parents, teachers and administrators had been protesting during the past decade against the incessant tuition and other fee hikes, commercialization, budget cuts, privatization and general neo-liberal attack on public higher education and the country’s education system in general,” Vencer Crisostomo, the national chairman of the left-leaning youth group Anakbayan, said in a statement on Tuesday.