Post by bikedaddy on Jun 5, 2006 10:17:55 GMT 8
UP College of Medicine shows CHED’s incompetence
June 05, 2006
Updated 03:25am (Mla time)
Inquirer
WHILE THE COMMISSION ON HIGHER Education has been asking private universities to freeze tuition fee hikes and impose additional fees (“Don’t impose new fees, CHED warns private schools,” PDI, 5/23/06), it has miserably failed to prevent the country’s premier state university, the University of the Philippines, particularly its College of Medicine, from increasing its fees. Starting this school year, pursuant to a decision of the UP Board of Regents (BOR), which is chaired by CHED, it is going to charge incoming freshmen a tuition fee of around P20,000 per semester. This is P8,000 higher than the tuition fee the college charged in previous years.
CHED’s failure to effectively impose its own order on UP reveals its incompetence to act as a national regulating body for higher education institutions. The CHED has no basis for exempting UP from its freeze order, especially when the basis for the order is the economic crisis affecting every Filipino family, including the parents of our Iskolars ng Bayan.
Among the state universities and colleges (SUCs), it is UP that receives the biggest budget from the national government. This is reason enough for the CHED to regulate UP’s fee increases. Moreover, both CHED and UP were given an additional budget of P100 million each for 2006 by the Senate. (“Senate set to enact ‘responsible, prudent’ budget—Villar,” PDI, 5/26/06)
The tuition fee hike imposed by the UP College of Medicine will affect 160 students and, therefore, will generate at most P1.3 million, an amount that can be sufficiently covered by the budget increase.
CHED should not allow this tuition fee increase in UP this coming academic year. It should review instead the socialized tuition fee program of UP and all SUCs.
Also regrettable in the recent BOR meeting was the absence of the chair of the Senate Committee on Higher Education, Sen. Juan Flavier, himself a graduate of the UP College of Medicine. He failed to fight for the dreams of bright and underprivileged students who are aspiring to become doctors. His absence was a disservice to the country, which is already suffering from medical brain drain.
Iskolars ng Bayan fear that with the approved tuition fee increase in the College of Medicine, other colleges and units would follow suit. It does feel like we are scaling a steep mountain of rising fees (editorial cartoon, PDI, 5/30/06), with only the financially able reaching the top.
—CHRISTINE ANN DE VILLA, via e-mail
Justified?.....In my opinion, yes.
I maybe wrong with this one, but if for some reason you find yourself inside the UPCM campus, you may not find any hint or air of this school being a school for the underprivileged. Why? Its parking lot is full of brand-new and even high-end cars, driven by English speaking not so brown skinned students (trans: mas gwapo at maganda kesa sa mga kagaya nating masa). I'm sure most of them are really bright students, cream of the crop "wika nga", but I think they are depriving those who are also bright but really poor students who also dream of becoming doctors. If let's say 50 slots are taken by these not so poor students, that translates to 50 dreams unrealized by some poor but equally talented young men and women. So if more of the students at UPCM will be described as not so poor, I'd rather support a tuition fee increase that matches the income of their high profile parents (big shot doctors, executives etc.)....I pay my taxes every year and I'm angered by the thought that it subsidizes the tuition fee of a student whose parents earn a hundred times more than me and my wife combined!....My cousin was a student at UPCM, graduated at the top of his class at UP Diliman. Top 5 in the Medical Boards , now a Chicago- trained trauma surgeon. But there is something that is so "discomforting" regarding his academic excellence. He got it from a public school whereas his family (not our) owns a thousand-hectare island in Polilio, Quezon.
Me? I'm not pang-UP....my parents maybe poor, but I wasn't so bright either. ;D ;D
KAYA ITAAS N'YO PA ANG TUITION FEE SA UPCM, DAHIL PANG-MAYAMAN TALAGA YAN! sori na lang sa mga konting mahihirap dyan, lumipat na lang kayo!
I wonder if Diliman is like this also. ....baka bikers lang ang poor dyan! ....or maybe not ;D
June 05, 2006
Updated 03:25am (Mla time)
Inquirer
WHILE THE COMMISSION ON HIGHER Education has been asking private universities to freeze tuition fee hikes and impose additional fees (“Don’t impose new fees, CHED warns private schools,” PDI, 5/23/06), it has miserably failed to prevent the country’s premier state university, the University of the Philippines, particularly its College of Medicine, from increasing its fees. Starting this school year, pursuant to a decision of the UP Board of Regents (BOR), which is chaired by CHED, it is going to charge incoming freshmen a tuition fee of around P20,000 per semester. This is P8,000 higher than the tuition fee the college charged in previous years.
CHED’s failure to effectively impose its own order on UP reveals its incompetence to act as a national regulating body for higher education institutions. The CHED has no basis for exempting UP from its freeze order, especially when the basis for the order is the economic crisis affecting every Filipino family, including the parents of our Iskolars ng Bayan.
Among the state universities and colleges (SUCs), it is UP that receives the biggest budget from the national government. This is reason enough for the CHED to regulate UP’s fee increases. Moreover, both CHED and UP were given an additional budget of P100 million each for 2006 by the Senate. (“Senate set to enact ‘responsible, prudent’ budget—Villar,” PDI, 5/26/06)
The tuition fee hike imposed by the UP College of Medicine will affect 160 students and, therefore, will generate at most P1.3 million, an amount that can be sufficiently covered by the budget increase.
CHED should not allow this tuition fee increase in UP this coming academic year. It should review instead the socialized tuition fee program of UP and all SUCs.
Also regrettable in the recent BOR meeting was the absence of the chair of the Senate Committee on Higher Education, Sen. Juan Flavier, himself a graduate of the UP College of Medicine. He failed to fight for the dreams of bright and underprivileged students who are aspiring to become doctors. His absence was a disservice to the country, which is already suffering from medical brain drain.
Iskolars ng Bayan fear that with the approved tuition fee increase in the College of Medicine, other colleges and units would follow suit. It does feel like we are scaling a steep mountain of rising fees (editorial cartoon, PDI, 5/30/06), with only the financially able reaching the top.
—CHRISTINE ANN DE VILLA, via e-mail
Justified?.....In my opinion, yes.
I maybe wrong with this one, but if for some reason you find yourself inside the UPCM campus, you may not find any hint or air of this school being a school for the underprivileged. Why? Its parking lot is full of brand-new and even high-end cars, driven by English speaking not so brown skinned students (trans: mas gwapo at maganda kesa sa mga kagaya nating masa). I'm sure most of them are really bright students, cream of the crop "wika nga", but I think they are depriving those who are also bright but really poor students who also dream of becoming doctors. If let's say 50 slots are taken by these not so poor students, that translates to 50 dreams unrealized by some poor but equally talented young men and women. So if more of the students at UPCM will be described as not so poor, I'd rather support a tuition fee increase that matches the income of their high profile parents (big shot doctors, executives etc.)....I pay my taxes every year and I'm angered by the thought that it subsidizes the tuition fee of a student whose parents earn a hundred times more than me and my wife combined!....My cousin was a student at UPCM, graduated at the top of his class at UP Diliman. Top 5 in the Medical Boards , now a Chicago- trained trauma surgeon. But there is something that is so "discomforting" regarding his academic excellence. He got it from a public school whereas his family (not our) owns a thousand-hectare island in Polilio, Quezon.
Me? I'm not pang-UP....my parents maybe poor, but I wasn't so bright either. ;D ;D
KAYA ITAAS N'YO PA ANG TUITION FEE SA UPCM, DAHIL PANG-MAYAMAN TALAGA YAN! sori na lang sa mga konting mahihirap dyan, lumipat na lang kayo!
I wonder if Diliman is like this also. ....baka bikers lang ang poor dyan! ....or maybe not ;D