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(Eagle News) — The Department of Education on Thursday, June 25, appealed to private schools for basic education to defer increases in tuition and other school fees amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The department made the appeal as it also called for “transparency” in the structure of fees, following what it said were “concerns over certain school charges that are not consistent with distance learning.” In asking the private schools to make the postponement of the […]
QUEZON City, Philippines, May 26 (Eagle News) — The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) stand by its decision approving the tuition fee increase of 1, 200 elementary and high schools, with CHED adding that the said approval passed through the proper procedure. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
MANILA, Philippines, May 21 (Eagle News) — Senator Sonny Angara is proposing that tuition fees should be exempted from the gross income tax. The proposed law can deduct 40, 000 pesos per college student with parents able to have up to four children exempted. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
With a rise on student suicide because of rising tuition fee prices, students from various state universities and private schools conduct protests in Mendiola.
