A total of 30 higher educational institutions in the region were granted approval of their petition to increase tuition and fees for academic year 2018- 2019, an official of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) here said on Thursday.
As long as the neoliberal policies are obstinately adopted by the government, particularly by the Department of Education (DepED), the year-to-year woes confronted by parents, teachers, and administrators during the opening of classes will persist.
President Rodrigo Duterte signed into law, Monday May 28, a bill converting the Davao Oriental State College of Science and Technology into a university.
The public official who allegedly threatened a faculty member of Ateneo de Davao University over his son's failing grade denied such allegation.
"Parental bullying based on public office or one's legal profession has no place at AdDU nor in any school," said AdDU President Fr. Joel Tabora.