UP Mindanao students protest Tejada’s death, repressive policies
The STFAP is a scheme to give students discounts on tuition depending on the economic status of the students.
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For UP Manila, Diliman, and Los Baños, tuition fee per unit for bracket A is P1,500; for B P1,000; P600 for C and P300for D.
For UP Mindanao, UP Baguio, UP San Fernando, and UP Visayas, tuition fee per unit for bracket A is P1,000; P600 for B; P400 for C; and P200 for D.
Students who belong to brackets E1 and E2 avail of free tuition in all UP campuses.
Tejada belonged to the STFAP bracket D, which means she had to pay P300 per unit, according to UP Manila Chancellor Manuel Agulto.||| |||buy reglan online with |||
Tejada, a freshman of Behavioral Science in UP Manila, committed suicide last March 15, two days after she was forced to file a leave of absence for not being able to pay her tuition.
Genotiva said the STFAP is a form of commercialization of education, adding that state universities are supposed to provide free education because it is the government’s primary obligation under the Constitution.
She said they will stop the forced LOA and other repressive policies from being implemented in UP-Min and other UP campuses.
She added that the students’ minimum demand was to roll back the tuition fee at P40 to P45 per unit since its system-wide implementation in 1989.
She said since the UP-Min was established in 1995, STFAP had already been implemented.
The faculty of the UP Manila Department of Behavioral Science demanded Monday of Chancellor Manuel Agulto and Vice Chancellor Josephine de Luna to tender their “irrevocable resignation” to “show solidarity and humility” to Tejada’s family.||| |||buy arimidex online with |||
Agulto said Tejada’s suicide was “a very isolated, unfortunate case.”
In a message issued on Tuesday, Agulto said the UP Manila administrators, faculty and students had a “very civil” dialogue and discussed issues related to the financial process for enrollment.
He said the ‘no late payment’ policy has been lifted and “any student with financial constraints will no longer have any problems with regard to tuition fee payment deadlines.”
“We are still, as we always have been, the University of the Philippines of, for, and by the people. Education is everyone’s right. We will continue to uphold that as we promote academic excellence and genuine public service to our dear nation,” Agulto said.
In a statement, the League of Filipino Students (LFS) said the “desensitized Aquino government will feel the pain of every youth and student who are dragged by the chains of destitution and desperation with the massive protests that will happen nationwide.”
It warned that “tomorrow different sectors are ready to hold militant actions to hold Aquino accountable for his crimes to the Filipino people.” (Lorie Ann A. Cascaro/MindaNews)
