{"id":50439,"date":"2015-05-26T21:50:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T13:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=50439"},"modified":"2015-05-26T22:54:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T14:54:47","slug":"santiago-colleges-should-be-accountable-for-miscellaneous-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/26\/santiago-colleges-should-be-accountable-for-miscellaneous-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Santiago: Colleges should be accountable for miscellaneous fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_50441\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50441\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/mdspink-ls-800px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-50441\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/mdspink-ls-800px-1024x568.jpg\" alt=\"Senator Miriam Santiago (Photo from Santiago\u2019s official website) \" width=\"604\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/mdspink-ls-800px-1024x568.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/mdspink-ls-800px-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/mdspink-ls-800px-900x499.jpg 900w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/mdspink-ls-800px.jpg 1038w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Miriam Santiago (Photo from Santiago\u2019s official website)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 After the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) allowed 313 colleges and universities in the country to increase tuition and other fees, Senator Miriam Santiago demanded that these schools be accountable for the granted increase.<\/p>\n<p>Santiago emphasized that the additional fees collected should be allocated and used properly. The senator called on the CHEd as the agency responsible for monitoring and ensuring this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ched has issued guidelines for the use of funds derived from tuition increases, but we need to know how they ensure compliance with these rules,\u201d she said in an official statement released.<\/p>\n<p>Based on CHEd\u2019s policies, schools were ordered to allot 70 percent proceeds of tuition hike to faculty and staff\u2019s salary increase, the other 20 percent to facility improvements, and only the remaining 10 percent to be set aside as profit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CHEd\u2019s approach to the issue of tuition is holistic,\u201d CHEd Chair Patricia Licuanan said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Santiago approved CHEd\u2019s guidelines but worried that it may be abused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA school can always say that it increased the faculty\u2019s wages, renovated a building, or bought new computers, but how does it support such claims?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n<p>Santiago then suggested that schools be required to submit clear allocation and expenditure breakdowns with documents as evidences. She also suggested that CHEd conduct surprise inspections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaking education more accessible to the public should be a priority, right up there, if not taking precedence over, the fight against corruption,\u201d she said. \u201cCorrupt politicians are threatened by an educated public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, CHEd approved 313 colleges and universities\u2019 requests for tuition and miscellaneous fees increase for the coming academic year. In average, tuition fee increased by P29.86 per unit and other fees increased by P135.60.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/20\/313-colleges-to-increase-tuition-fee-this-school-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">313 colleges to increase tuition fee this school year<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 After the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) allowed 313 colleges and universities in the country to increase tuition &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":50441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[604,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-education","category-news-ph","mauthors-jane-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50439","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=50439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}