By JOHN CARLO M. CAHINHINAN
MANILA – Administration Senator Imee Marcos is seeking an investigation over the alleged “tuition-padding” in top universities in the country.
Marcos recently filed Senate Resolution 480 to conduct the inquiry over the matter amid growing number of complaints from parents and students enrolling in Metro Manila’s top universities over educational expenses that should no longer be applicable.
Marcos stressed that alternative learning through online classes and modular lessons “should be less costly” than the face-to-face education prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The inclusion of many miscellaneous fees for school facilities and services that would no longer be used is unnecessary and unconscionable,” said Marcos.
According to Marcos, a Senate investigation “is in order, if the Commission on Higher Education cannot settle this controversy before classes resume in late August.”
Complaints reaching Marcos’s office disclosed that schools along the University Belt were still “charging various miscellaneous fees” for the use of classroom-based internet, electricity, laboratories, libraries, and medical and dental clinics.
Marcos said it was unlikely that most students who are below 21-years old would avail of school facilities, since guidelines set in early June by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) have directed them to remain indoors during all community quarantine levels.
“Schools should not be playing blind and profiting on what they would no longer provide. Parents and students should definitely be paying less,” said Marcos.
Source: Latest Politics News Today (Politics.com.ph)
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