{"id":138196,"date":"2017-12-11T20:26:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T01:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=138196"},"modified":"2017-12-11T20:27:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T01:27:50","slug":"senators-seek-higher-budget-for-sucs-free-tuition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/11\/senators-seek-higher-budget-for-sucs-free-tuition\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators seek higher budget for SUC\u2019s free tuition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In hopes of having more educated Filipinos, senators call for a higher budget allocation for the free tuition in state universities and colleges.<\/p>\n<p>They have seen that the proposed budget of Malaca\u00f1ang is not enough to sustain the program.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Commission on Higher Education, the agency has set aside 8.3 billion pesos for free tuition in SUCs.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Senator Joseph Ejercito urged economic managers to reconsider their opposition by pushing for free SUC education so that there will be a college graduate in every Filipino family.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Sherwin Gatchalian also asked the Duterte administration to devote more resources in expanding access to educational opportunities at the tertiary level.<\/p>\n<p>He added that as of now a budget of 15 billion is the projected amount needed to pursue the program.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 08\/\u00a002 \/ 17)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In hopes of having more educated Filipinos, senators call for a higher budget allocation for the free tuition in state &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15595,11223,38347,14359],"class_list":["post-138196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","tag-commission-on-higher-education","tag-duterte-administration","tag-senator-joseph-ejercito","tag-senator-sherwin-gatchalian","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}