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I hope this administration wakes up from its vaunted narrow-minded path, and developed more sensible policies especially for education.
I was hoping that the amended UP charter will somehow unshackle the university from this yearly budget squeeze. Or at least, that was one of the selling point of that amendment. That had UP been declared a national university, the government would have no choice but to take care of it.
It really is stupid to expect from our legislators, a number of them graduated from the State U, to passed a decent budget for the SUCs because after all they are focused on how much they could get for themselves. Or of kowtowing to what the palace wants so that their pork barrels would be released faster.
How could they explain these cuts? Why not abolish the CCT and realign its billion budget to something that is worth this country's while -- education, job creation. etc.
Hoy, gising!
