THE Duterte administration will earmark P20 billion from the proposed P3.7 trillion budget for 2018 to fund the implementation of the Free College Education law in 2018, an education official said on Thursday.

Commissioner Popoy de Vera of the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) made the announcement a day after Rep. Karlo Nograles of Davao City disclosed that Congress and the Executive department were considering pooling P16.8 billion from scholarship funds of various government agencies and P8 billion from the 2017 scholarship allocation.

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