Potentially bad news for parents and scholars: 95 higher education institutions in Metro Manila plan to increase tuition fees next school year.
Commission on Higher Education-National Capital Region director Catherine Castañeda said in a Manila Bulletin report that her office already has a list of schools seeking approval for tuition fee increases.
A total of 95 schools, colleges, and universities in the National Capital Region (NCR) intend to increase tuition in the coming school year, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) revealed yesterday. “Out of 336 schools in NCR, a total of 95 have submitted applications for increase, but these will have to undergo approval,” she said.
Activist group National Union of Students of the Philippines has criticized the plans of some schools to raise fees, saying these were done after “bogus” consultations with stakeholders. “The said fee hikes are baseless and unjustified and we therefore call on CHED to disapprove said proposals,” NUSP deputy secretary general Sheryl Alapad said.
Among the proposed increases that NUSP is trying to block are those of the University of Santo Tomas, University of the East, Lyceum of the Philippines University, and De La Salle University-Araneta, which allegedly plan to raise fees by 5 percent.
The group is also questioning increases proposed by UE-Caloocan (3.5 percent), and Colegio de San Juan de Letran and Adamson University where school fees could go up by as much as 10 percent.
