CHED-8 grants tuition hike to 9 schools
ORMOC CITY , Philippines — The Commission on Higher Education in Eastern Visayas has approved the application for tuition fee increase of nine colleges in the region, four of which are in this city.
Those whose tuition hike applications were approved were ACLC-Ormoc, STI-College Ormoc, Santo Nino College of Ormoc and the Western Leyte College also in this city.
The others are the ABE-Tacloban, ACLC-Tacloban, AMA-Tacloban, Jose Navarro Polytechnic College in Kananga, Leyte and the St. Michael College in Hindang, Leyte.
A total of 14 colleges applied for tuition hike for the forthcoming school year 2013-14 but only nine of these were able to comply with the requirements and get the CHED-8 approval, according to Socorro Ramos of the CHED-8's technical division.
Among the requirements for the tuition hike bid was that the school must show proof that it consulted students and parents on its plans and made available its statement of operations for scrutiny and justification.
CHED-8 granted the nine colleges an increase of an average of 7 percent on their current rates or P26.21 per unit. A similar increase was granted to other fees or around P 310.00 per semester. (FREEMAN)
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