FR. JOEL TABORA, S.J.
AS Dr. Patricia Licuanan, the chair of the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd), convenes the expanded UniFAST board in order to craft the implementing rules and regulations (IRRs) for the Universal Access to Tertiary Education Act (#EAQTEA or RA 10931), I would like to recall the first three joint resolutions approved jointly by the Philippine Association of State Universities and Colleges (PASUC) and the Coordinating Council of Private Educational Associations (COCOPEA). I believe these shed important light on the spirit in which these major public and private educational associations would like the IRRs of RA 10931 crafted: