Youth and students showed their disgust over tuition hikes not only in the streets but also on social media.
Netizens lambast tuition hikes
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In his first year, Aquino did nothing to improve education, bring down fees — Anakbayan
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com On June 13, the second Monday marking the official start of the 2011 school year, university students from various universities all over the country held coordinated protests against what they said was the failure of the government of Benigno Aquino III to improve the system of education and put…
Victorious PUP Students Say Protests ‘Symptom of Bigger Problem’ in Philippine Education
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
The release this week of the five student from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines does not stop the struggle by students and parents against unreasonable tuition increases.
EARIST Students Protest Tuition Hike, ‘Developmental Fee’
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat MANILA — State colleges and universities are a lifeline to Filipino families with meager income but whose students are eager to finish their education. The conventional wisdom is that these institutions are not as rapacious as their private counterparts in increasing tuition and other fees. In fact, state colleges…
UNP Students Call for Higher State Subsidy
Students from the University of Northern Philippines (UNP) through the initiative of Alliance of Concerned Students-Partido ng Demokratikong Mag-aaral (ACS-PDM), a campus party alliance, are now gearing up for the budget deliberation in Congress this coming November. BY ZOFIA LEAL Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 36, October 14-20, 2007 Students from the University of Northern Philippines…