{"id":10969,"date":"2016-12-16T15:08:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T07:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=10969"},"modified":"2016-12-16T17:38:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T09:38:51","slug":"free-tuition-fee-for-all-filipino-nationals-in-state-universities-and-colleges-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/12\/16\/free-tuition-fee-for-all-filipino-nationals-in-state-universities-and-colleges-in-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Free tuition for all Filipino nationals in state universities and colleges in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">By 2017, tuition in the undergraduate programs for all state universities and colleges in the Philippines will be free.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has been given an additional P8.3-billion ($167.17 million) allocation meant to provide for free tuition in state universities and colleges (SUCs).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Also included in the CHED budget is P5.8 billion for the continued implementation of student financial assistance programs such as the PAMANA Study Grant Program, Iskolar ng Bayan, Tulong-Dunong Program and scholarship grants for children of sugarcane workers and other small farmers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">An allocation of P4.6 billion was also included for the continued implementation of the K to 12 program and P763 million for the Philippine-California Advanced Research Institutes Project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">However, according to CHED Deputy Executive Director Napoleon Imperial in a statement released by CHED, they still need to make thorough plans and observation for the implementation. &#8220;We still need to meet with [the Department of Budget and Management] and Senate [regarding] implementation given our issues of concern that need to be resolved first,&#8221; he said on Wednesday, December 14.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&#8220;CHED wants to ensure that the implementation\/guidelines are defined properly to be able to manage the huge amount of funds accordingly,&#8221; He added.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">See here the complete list of universities and colleges that will offer free education by 2017: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianpolicy.press\/2016\/12\/p4-complete-list-state-universities-and.html\" target=\"_blank\">asianpolicy<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.abs-cbn.com\/news\/12\/16\/16\/free-tuition-in-sucs-eyed-with-p83-b-ched-infusion\" target=\"_blank\">news.abs-cbn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianpolicy.press\/2016\/12\/p4-complete-list-state-universities-and.html\" target=\"_blank\">asianpolicy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rappler.com\/nation\/155562-congress-2017-budget-ched-free-tuition-sucs\" target=\"_blank\">rappler<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By 2017, tuition in the undergraduate programs for all state universities and colleges in the Philippines will be free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/CHED-Philippines-cropped-e1481872028215.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10969"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10983,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10969\/revisions\/10983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}