By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“Tertiary education is really a privilege.” – Budget Secretary Florencio Abad
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Meager spending for social services show that the 2012 budget is anti-people and far from being a ‘reform budget’.” – Vencer Crisostomo, national chairman of Anakbayan.
Sidebar: Filipinos get P1.25 for health, P6.55 for education per day
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com Main story: Approved 2012 budget skewed vs peoples’ needs MANILA -- Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raymond “Mong” Palatino criticized the Congress-ratified 2012 national budget of P1.816 trillion ($41.61 billion) as “unhealthy and ignorant”...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO and ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Debt servicing remains the priority with next year's debt payments standing at P735.6 billion ($17.1 billion), dwarfing the combined funding of all social services for 2012 amounting to a mere P575.8 billion ($13.39 billion).
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – John Clifford Sibayan, 19, is following the footsteps of his mother who is a teacher in a public school in Pampanga. “There is nothing like teaching,” Clifford said during an interview. They do not only teach the...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
The Philippine Normal University is supposedly another option. But more than this, the state of PNU would definitely impact on the state of basic education in the country. An overwhelming majority of teachers, especially in the public school system are trained at PNU, and the quality of graduates it produces would reflect on the state of the country's public school system. While the PNU gasps for dear life, so would the whole public school system.
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
PUP remains as one of the last few hopes for children of poor families to gain higher education. But it is slowly being dashed as the PUP struggles with extreme shortages, dilapidated facilities and the pressure to increase tuition and other fees to survive.
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Shortages continue to plague the country's education system despite President Benigno Aquino III's campaign and inaugural promises that his administration would provide quality education for the Filipino people.
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Various groups opposed to budget cuts in state universities and colleges (SUCs), health and social services have linked-up with government employees who are fighting against the P800 million ($18 million) slash on the 2012 budget for the country's judiciary.
By MARYA SALAMAT
The House of Representatives approved a P200m ($4.6m) addition to the DOH budget and P400m ($9.2m) for government-owned and controlled corporation hospitals, as a result of the intense campaign of progressive health groups for a higher health budget.
Letter to the Editor 14 October 2011 President Noynoy Aquino’s recent directive to state universities to raise tuition to cover funding gaps is a grave misunderstanding of public higher education. Quality education “at all levels” is a citizen’s right in the 1987...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Progressive partylist groups in the House of Representatives voted 'no' to the 2012 appropriations bill, saying that the national budget is "anti-poor'' and that it reveals "government neglect and the absence of...
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch Reposted by BAGUIO CITY – Students from State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) in Region I join other SUC students nationwide in launching different forms of protest actions against the slashing of the national budget for state...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"If we are given a zero budget, would that mean that we would land in the top position?" UP student regent Krissy Conti told bulatlat.com, adding that Malacañang should not compare the University of the Philippines with other private universities that are profit-oriented.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Mar Roxas’ proposed budget slashed by 38-percent the government subsidy on MRT for 2012—from P6.9 billion ($162.7 million) to P4.29-billion ($101.15 million), despite reports of annual increases in passenger load.
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Why is the government funding a project that spells disaster to thousands of farmers, fisherfolks and tribal communities in five villages of Casiguran town in Aurora? That is the question repeatedly asked by leaders and...
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“As long as the Aquino government continues with the same policies that have perpetuated the backward, labor-intensive and low-yielding domestic agriculture, rice-self sufficiency will not be realized.” - Anakpawis Rep. Rafael Mariano
By MARYA SALAMAT
In a study of the proposed 2012 health budget conducted by the Coalition for Health Budget Increase (CHBI), it found out that the increases in the health budget only “define the Aquino Health Agenda of privatization and commercialization of public health care which will further jeopardize the health of the people.”
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
During the August 9 budget hearing of the DOH, Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño exposed the practice of the Philippine Children’s Medical Center (PCMC) of asking indigent patients to pawn personal items like mobile phones and watches in exchange for releasing patients.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“While landlords receive hefty payments, massive landlessness persists in the countryside. Millions of farmers are displaced due to massive land grabbing and land use conversion. Rural poverty and hunger is on the rise.” Anakpawis Rep. Rafael Mariano
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