This will be my final column for this publication so I’d rather give my best shot. Until to the last drop of ink present in my pen, I will provide fearless views to everyone. To the very last moment of being a student, it’s a pleasure to express freely my concerns to the "turning to be extinct" Philippine education.
Every person has the right to quality and affordable education as mandated in the Philippine Constitution. However, education for every Filipino looms in doom. State universities and colleges (SUCs) are being tied with the detrimental provisions of the Higher Education Modernization Act (RA8292). Seems to have a nice title but it permits SUCs to "enter into joint ventures with business and industry for the profitable development and management of the college or institution, the proceeds from which are to be used for the development and strengthening of the college and the university…" thus, it pushes education to commercialization. SUCs impose increase in tuition and other fees so they can comply with the act and worse privatization took place. It then leads education beyond the reach of the poor. Why doesn’t the government give greater subsidies to its SUCs so that tuition and other fee increase can be avoided? In addition, most private higher education institutions use the loopholes of CHED Memo 14 to impose tuition and other fee increase (I assume I don’t have to say more with this topic. It’s been hot news in mainstream and alternative press and it’ll only drive me exhausted.) The end result: huge decline of enrolment. With this kind of situation, when education becomes a business, a privilege rather than a right, the future of the so-called hopes of Motherland will be: QWSACZDXERFEASRCVVNGYUOUOILPHKHMGNGJYTGRFDSXAXACZDSERWRETYDGDFBVNGJHIUOIPOLKJKHMHNGJGFYTTERWEADSGDGDRDRGRHFTDFECDFDGHDFYR HRURYTGKJHYUQEQSADSCZCXDTRYTJYIUOIPLFJDGXCZVSTEYEFSDESYDUUSVDDSWQSAXZCXFDREYFGFVVNBMNKJLOIPUUTYTGERWECOLONIALQWSACZDXERFEASRCVVNGYUOUOILPHKHMGNGJYTGRFDSXAXACZDSERWRETYDGDFBVNGJHIUOIPOLKJK HMHNGJGFYTTERWEADSGDGDRDRGRHFHDFYRHRURYTGKJHYUQEQSADSCZCXDTRYTJYIUOIPLFJDGXCZVSTEYEFSDESYDUUSVDDSWQSAXZCXFDREYFGFVVNBMNKJLOI PUCOMMERCIALIZEDQWSACZDXERFEASRCVVNGYUOUOILPHKHMGNGJYTGRFDSXAXACZDSERWRETYDGDFBVNGJHIUOIPOLKJKHMHNGJGFYTTERWEADSGDGDRDRGRH FTDFECDFDGHDFYRHRURYTGKJHYUQEQSADSCZCXDTRYTJYIUOIPLFJDGXCZVSTEYEFSDESYDUUSVDDSWQSAXZCXFDREYFGFVVNBMNKJLOIPUUTYTBCDDYJGIGYDESD DNGONIHHYREPRESSIVEQWSACZDXERFEASRCVVNGYUOUOILPHKHMGNGJYTGRFDSXAXACZDSERWRETYDGDFBVNGJHIUOIPOLKJKHMHNGJGFYTTERWEADSGDGDRDRGRH FTDFECDFDGHDFYRHRURYTGKJHYUQEQSADSCZCXDTRYTJYIUOIPLFJDGXCZVSTEYEFSDESYDUUSVDDSWQSAXZCXFDREYFGFVVNBMNKJLOIPUUEDUCATIONQWSACZDXE RFEASRCVVNGYUOUHJFISUHFLBFJKSDFGISFHSUIDGFHSZFCOILPHKHMGNGJYTGRFDSXAXACZDSERWRETYDGDFBVNGJHIUOPOLKJKHMHNGJGFYTTERWEADSGDGDRDRGRHFTDFECDFDGHDFYRHRURYTGKJHY UQEQSADSCZCXDTRYTJYIUOIPLFJDGXCZVSTEYEFSDESYDUUDASDLSAKJPODJASJDSVDDSWQSAXZCXFDREYFGFVVNBMNKJLOIPUUTYTGERWEDEFENDQWSACZDXERFEASRCVVNGYUOUOILPHK HMGNGJYTGRFDSXAXACZDSERWRETYDGDFBVNGJHIUOIPOLKJKHMCAMPUSHNGJGFASASDLJHASODLHASODHADASDKHASLDHALSDHLASHDLASASDHASLDAS
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Did you get what I mean? I still believe that KABATAAN ANG PAG-ASA NG BAYAN. If the youth will be endowed with adequate education, they can provide a bright future in return. Despite the inflating economy, the government and school owners must not treat education as a profit machine.
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I would like to end this column and my service as EIC with an axiom offered to the TIP community. This will be an assurance that our struggle in upholding students’ welfare is for perpetuity. "The phoenix may die but unto its ashes; a new bird shall rise…" Arrivederci. Ü
Ang kolumn na ito ay nailathala sa VOCE, tomo xxvi bilang apat. Ito ang panahong kabilaan ang pagtaas ng matrikula at iba’t-ibang uri ng bayarin sa mga paaralan. Naninindigan ang may-akda na ang edukasyon ay karapatan at hindi isang kalakal na inilalako lamang sa mga taong may kakayahan na ito ay mabili. Ang mga edukador kapitalista at ang gobyerno ay marapat lamang na tiyakin ang edukasyon ay kayang abutin ng bawat kabataan. Ngunit sa kasamaang palad, sila pa ang naglalayo sa karapatan ng bawat indibidwal na makapag-aral sa ngalan ng negosyo at lakas pulitika. Ito ay kudlit na manipestasyon pa lamang ng sistema ng edukasyon sa Pilipinas, kolonyal, komersyalisado at represibo. Mangyaring pakibasa ang artikulo ukol sa AKSYON TIP (http://onick-roxas.blog.friendster.com/) upang higit na maunawaan ang kabulukan ng sistema ng edukasyon sa Pilipinas na pinapangyari ng gobyerno at ng mga edukador kapitalista. *Magulong mga letra na sinadyang paangatin ang mga salitang colonial commercialized repressive education. Nais iparating ng may-akda na kapag nagpatuloy ang kasalukuyang sistema ng edukasyon sa bansa, isang magulo at walang katuturang kinabukasan para sa kabataan. Nasa ating mga kabataan ngayon ang pagkilos upang mabago ang sasapiting kinabukasan at tugunan ang mga hamon ng lipunan. Pinaangat din ang defend campus press freedom, gag us not, dahil panigurado, sa paninindigang maka-estudyante papasok ang represyon, na kinayaunan, naranasan nga ng pahayagan. Mababasa din po sa site na ito ang mga artikulo hingil sa sinapit ng pahayagan at ang paglaban ng mga ‘tunay na mamahayag’ para sa kalayaan makapagpahayag at karapatan ng mga estudyante.
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