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CONVERSION OF SCHOOLS INTO CAMPUSES GETS SENATE OK

Recognizing the importance of education in developing life skills, the Senate approved on third and final reading several local bills that seek the conversion and establishment of schools across the country. Senator Chiz Escudero, chairperson of the Committee on Higher, Technical and Vocational Education and sponsor of the measures, said the elevation of schools into […]

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SUANSING LAUDS CREATION OF 2 NEW NEUST CAMPUSES

A Nueva Ecija legislator lauded as a dream come true the enactment of laws to establish two regular campuses of a state university within the province’s first congressional district. First District Representative Estrellita Suansing said the creation of regular school campuses of Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology (NEUST) in Sto. Domingo and the […]

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ABANTE TO PNP: RESPECT CAMPUSES AS ‘SAFE SPACES’

Deputy Speaker and Manila 6th District Rep. Benny Abante Jr. has joined calls to relieve Philippine National Police (PNP) officials involved in the violent raid conducted at a makeshift Lumad school at the Talamban campus of the University of San Carlos in Cebu City, and urged the PNP on Thursday to respect universities and schools […]

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COMPEL UP, PUP TO COOPERATE WITH POLICE, ARMY ON ALLEGED RED RECRUITMENT – DELA ROSA

Senator Bato dela Rosa has floated the idea of compelling state-run universities to fully cooperate with security forces in ensuring that groups that indoctrinate students into the communist ideology will not be allowed in their campuses. “They should, gobyerno naman gumagastos sa kanila (the government funds them). Government-owned schools ang mga ito (these are government schools) and yet […]