IN separate mass protests, students of the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in Manila and the University of the Philippines (UP) in Diliman, Quezon City, on Friday denounced the high cost of education in the country.

They cited unregulated increases in tuition and other fees that many students cannot afford, forcing some of them to take their own lives as a result of failure to pay for their education.

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