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College students of Saint Louis College (SLU) in Baguio Metropolis maintain a protest rally outdoors their campus on Monday, April 24, 2023, to oppose the upcoming 9-percent improve in tuition and different college charges. (Picture by Jethro Bryan Andrada)
BAGUIO CITY — College students of Saint Louis College (SLU) on Monday staged a rally on the important gate of their Bonifacio campus right here to oppose the looming 9-percent improve in tuition and different college charges (TOFI) that the administration is eyeing to impose for the educational 12 months 2023-2024.
The schooling improve, one of many highest in recent times, is about to be applied amongst freshmen in SLU’s undergraduate, graduate, regulation, and drugs applications.
Gabrielle Francisco, president of the SLU KASAMA Supreme Pupil Council (SSC), asserted that the 9 p.c TOFI is “unjust.”
“Magsisilbi itong dagdag pahirap sa mga kabataan at mag-aaral ng SLU (It’ll function an extra burden to the scholars of SLU),” Francisco stated.
Francisco additionally expressed concern about an SLU memorandum asserting that there can be “no improve” within the tuition of scholars who’re of their second to fifth 12 months on the college, as she stated that the rise was as a substitute funneled to their different charges, successfully making TOFI relevant to all SLU college students.
A dialogue between KASAMA SSC and the administration was additionally held on Monday afternoon, together with one other silent protest on campus grounds.
Gabrielle Francisco, president of the Saint Louis College Kasama Supreme Pupil Council in Baguio Metropolis, leads the protest in opposition to the looming 9-percent improve in tuition and different college charges outdoors their campus on Monday, April 24, 2023. (Picture by Jethro Bryan Andrada)
Francisco additionally stated if the SSC is unsuccessful in stopping the administration from growing tuition, they had been nonetheless hoping for a moratorium or transparency from the college.
“Sana magkaroon man lang ng transparency and disclosure report para we all know the place it [increased funds in TOFI] is allotted (“We hope that there will be at the least a transparency and disclosure report in order that we all know the place it [increased funds in TOFI] is allotted),” Francisco added.
JETHRO BRYAN ANDRADA AND JUSTINE RHYS LAWRENCE MARTIREZ (CONTRIBUTORS)
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