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Thursday, April 15, 2004
15 Cebu schools seek tuition hike
By Charmaine Y. Rodriquez
CEBU CITY -- At least 25 schools in Central Visayas have asked the Commission on Higher Education (Ched) 7 to approve their applications for tuition increase this year.
Of the 25 colleges and universities, 15 of them are in Cebu and are asking for an increase ranging from five to 25 percent.
However, the applications are yet to be taken up by the Regional Multi-sectoral Committee, which will convene next month, said education supervisor Dante Cabunilas of Ched 7.
Also, only 19 of the applicants were able to submit all the requirements in time for the March 31 deadline.
Cabunilas said he is yet to contact the administrators of the schools that submitted only their intent to raise fees so they could process their applications or get confirmation that they will withdraw their intent.
There were five more applicants last year. Cabunilas believes the number dropped this year due to the failure of school administrators to get the student body's approval to increase tuition.
Schools like Asian College of Technology, College of Technological Sciences, Cebu Aeronautical and Technical School (CATS), St. Theresa's College (STC), University of the Visayas (UV)-Danao, Cebu Velez College, Consolatrix College of Toledo City, STI-Cebu and the University of Southern Philippines (USP) have all asked for a 10 percent increase.
Manto Memorial Foundation School asked for increases of 15 percent and 25 percent for their undergraduate and masteral courses, respectively.
Administrators of Felipe Verallo Memorial Foundation in Bogo town want to charge their students 15 percent more, while Cebu Doctors' College and Cebu Institute of Technology asked for an increase of eight percent.
The lowest applications came from UV main campus and ABE International College of Business and Accountancy at seven and five percent, respectively.
However, the administrators of CATS, STC, Manto Memorial, USP and ABE International have yet to submit to Ched 7 the requirements.
The requirements include the proof of consultation, the financial statement for the preceding school year and a certificate of compliance if the school imposed a tuition increase the previous year.
The proof of consultation is the signed minutes of the meeting of the faculty, student body and school administrators agreeing to the new rates.
The certificate of compliance should indicate that 70 percent of the income derived from the increase imposed benefited the school's faculty and non-teaching personnel though higher salaries.
It should also cite that 30 percent of the income was spent on the improvement of school facilities.
Aside from schools in Cebu, Bohol's Northeastern College, Mater Dei College and the Philippine Maritime Institute all asked for 15 percent increase while the University of Bohol and the Blessed Trinity College asked to hike fees at 14 percent and 10 percent respectively.
Diaz College and Foundation University in Negros Oriental asked for 10 percent increase while Villaflores College asked for 15 percent.
Genaro Goņi Memorial School only submitted a letter of intent but did not indicate how much and Cabunilas said that like the five schools in Cebu, which failed to complete the requirements, it might not be able impose the new rates in June.
(April 15, 2004 issue)
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