THE
Commission on higher Education (CHEd) has approved tuition-fee increases in 16
higher education institution (HEIs) in the impoverished Bicol region next
school year.
Abbie
Lesaca, CHEd communications officer, said 16 HEIs all over Bicol will implement
tuition hikes for academic year 2012-13.
Lesaca
said the CHEd central office was informed by the CHEd regional office in Bicol
of the impending implementation of the tuition increase.
She
said the regional office had to yet to submit the list of schools that would
hike their tuition as well as the rate of increase.
She
said the increase would definitely not go beyond the inflation rate.
The
National Economic Development Authority pegged the inflation rate at 6.2 per cent
in 2005, the reference cap for petition in tuition increase.
Lesaca
said the CHEd will come out with an official list of schools all over the
country that would increase tuition soon.
The
CHEd said schools may increase their tuition only between 5 and 10 per cent of
their present tuition rate or face possible decrease in the number of
enrollment of their student population.
The
CHED earlier said that close to 400 HEIs, the majority of which are at the
National Capital Region including Metro Manila, have filed petitions for
tuition hikes in February.
The
militant youth group Anakbayan blasted the CHEd for the approval of new round
of tuition increases, claiming that not only schools in Bicol will increase
tuition but several regions have already announced tuition hike in their areas.
“We
are outraged by news that CHEd offices in several regions have already
announced their approval of tuition hike proposals for next year,” Anakbayan
said in a statement.
Anakbayan said if the report is indeed true, then this
only shows that CHEd is indeed engaged in “Noynoying” and have been remiss in
its mandate to regulate tuition hikes with the seeming automatic approval of
the tuition hike proposals without even ensuring that it has gone into the
process. – Business Mirror
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