{"id":14896,"date":"2014-06-13T21:06:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T13:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=14896"},"modified":"2014-06-19T23:58:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T15:58:37","slug":"287-private-schools-get-approval-for-tuition-fee-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/13\/287-private-schools-get-approval-for-tuition-fee-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"287 private schools get approval for tuition fee hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9637\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9637\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/school-tuition.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9637\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/school-tuition-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/school-tuition-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/school-tuition.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; \u00a0Out of almost 345 higher institutions who applied for tuition fee hike, only 287 private tertiary schools excluding those in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao were allowed to increase their tuition fee this school year.<\/p>\n<p>The latest report from the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) said on its latest report that the number of\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0higher education institutions (HEIs) is four percent lower compared last year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the National Capital Region alone, 64 HEIs were cleared out of 69 who applied for the hike.<\/p>\n<p>Applied throughout the country, the average tuition increase per unit for this school year is P35.66 or 8.13 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The allowable average increase for other school fees is\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">P141.55 or 7.97 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The\u00a0average per unit tuition increase in the three largest regions are as follows: NCR, P66.24 (six percent); Region 4A, P51.04 (7.35 percent); and Region 3, P39.42 (9.3 percent).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Regions\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a04B (Mimaropa), 2 (Cagayan Valley) and 1 (Ilocos) are among the regions which posted the highest\u00a0average tuition increase with\u00a0P55.60 (13.90 percent), P39.41 (13.53 percent) and P37.28 (12.99 percent), respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, CHED added that no colleges and universities in Region 8\u00a0(Eastern Visayas), which was hardest-hit by Super Typhoon Yolanda last November, will increase their tuition fee this year.<\/p>\n<p><em>With reports from Philippine Star<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; \u00a0Out of almost 345 higher institutions who applied for tuition fee hike, only 287 private tertiary schools excluding &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":9637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[5223,3122],"class_list":["post-14896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-higher-education","tag-tuition-hike","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14896","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}