The government hastens the privatization or commercialization of state colleges and universities by lowering the budget for these schools, who are forced to increase tuition and come up with all sorts of income-generating projects that have nothing to do with education. In the meantime, poor students and their families are caught in a bind. Davao Today staff writer Grace S. Uddin tells us why.
Activism is alive and burning inside the UP Mindanao campus as students stayed up until dawn last week to protest the astronomical tuition increases the administrators of the University of thePhilippines system are proposing. Davao Today intern Melody Amor S. Nicolas was there.
Songs, tributes and prayers were heard today at the Freedom Park, at a busy intersection in downtown Davao City, as Aglipayan parishioners, joined by priests, nuns, pastors, lay people from…
Statement of Secretary Ignacio R. Bunye: Re Bishop Ramento slay The murder of Aglipayan Bishop Alberto Ramento is an abominable act that the police must attend to with thoroughness and…
MANILA -- There should be no cover-up in the investigation of the death of Obispo Maximo Alberto Ramento. This was the concern aired by the umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan…