INSPIRED by the University of the Philippines’ (UP) Socialized Tuition System (STS), the university’s old tuition scheme where students are bracketed according to their socio-economic status, an educator from Pampanga province said he wants to expand the program to benefit millions of students from various economic classes, especially those who are financially challenged.

Dr. Renato Legaspi, president of Central Luzon College of Sciences and Technology--San Fernando City and Olangapo City campuses, said it is high time that the private-education sector should have its own voice in Congress, given that the government has supposedly abandoned its job in uplifting the quality of the country’s educational system and in providing equal assistance to the private schools as it does to the public schools.

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