SENATORS have called on the economic managers of the Duterte administration to reconsider its stand against granting full government subsidy on tuition in State Universities and Colleges (SUCs), noting that the amount needed to implement the program was nothing compared to the benefits this would bring students.

Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero and  Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito said the reason why students were enrolling in state schools was because they could not afford tuition in private institutions.

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