Medical Malpractice

An in depth report on the rising cost of education Commission

Summary: An in depth report on the rising cost of education Commission on Higher Education CHED released on Tuesday June 6 aggregate data regarding tuition increase for 2006 and a 10 yr compilation of national tuition increase data This is after being nudged by a subpoena duces tecum from the Congress Committee on Higher and Technical Education in its meeting on June 5 to provide said data Members of the committee chided CHED for not participating properly to the former s hearings and requests CHED restricted information perhaps because the data disproves their pronouncement this quarter that they have capped tuition increases to 7 6 percent inflation rate said National Union of Students of the Philippines This school year out of 1 428 private higher education institutions PHEIs 27 31 percent or 390 schools have increased their tuition See figure 1 Of that total number of schools increasing tuition 194 are increases above the inflation rate while 196 are below or equal to the inflation Average percentage of increase is 9 53 percent with a peso equivalent of 31 04 pesos increase per unit Data excludes increases in four medicine schools in NCR Our Lady of Fatima University Valenzuela St Luke s College of Medicine University of Sto Tomas and UERMMMC Up up and away This is something that goes up which students don t welcome said Delos Reyes In the last ten years tuition has increased steadily Average tuition fee per unit in schools that increased tuition has gone up from 257 41 pesos in school year 2001 2002 to 350 27 pesos in 2006 2007 Total number of private schools in the country has also increased In 1997 there are 1 008 private schools in the country and this year there are 1 428 CHED argues that it was successful in reducing the number of schools increasing tuition They cited that there are only about one fourth of the total schools that increase tuition but that s a half truth They didn t cite that the number of private schools also increased clarified Delos Reyes Another claim of CHED that has been disproved by the facts is the claim that they have reduced the average percent increase in tuition In 1997 it was 16 33 and only 9 53 in 2006 However the peso equivalent in 1997 was 28 28 pesos per unit while in 2006 it was 31 04 pesos per unit added Delos Reyes More fees to come Aside from tuition students pay another gamut of school fees In 2004 CHED issued a list of the ten most common fees charged by schools in a survey conducted in 10 regions and 144 schools The list includes registration library medical dental athletics audio visual guidance laboratory NSTP and ID fee Law states that tuition fees should be appropriated 70 20 10 Seventy percent must go to salary of personnel of the school twenty percent go to infrastructure and only 10 percent must go to return of investment An in depth report on the rising cost of education Commission on Higher Education CHED released on Tuesday June 6 aggregate data regarding tuition increase for 2006 and a 10 yr compilation of national tuition increase data This is after being nudged by a subpoena duces tecum from the Congress Committee on Higher and Technical Education in its meeting on June 5 to provide said data Members of the committee chided CHED for not participating properly to the former s hearings and requests CHED restricted information perhaps because the data disproves their pronouncement this quarter that they have capped tuition increases to 7 6 percent inflation rate said National Union of Students of the Philippines This school year out of 1 428 private higher education institutions PHEIs 27 31 percent or 390 schools have increased their tuition See figure 1 Of that total number of schools increasing tuition 194 are increases above the inflation rate while 196 are below or equal to the inflation Average percentage of increase is 9 53 percent with a peso equivalent of 31 04 pesos increase per unit Data excludes increases in four medicine schools in NCR Our Lady of Fatima University Valenzuela St Luke s College of Medicine University of Sto Tomas and UERMMMC Up up and away This is something that goes up which students don t welcome said Delos Reyes In the last ten years tuition has increased steadily Average tuition fee per unit in schools that increased tuition has gone up from 257 41 pesos in school year 2001 2002 to 350 27 pesos in 2006 2007 Total number of private schools in the country has also increased In 1997 there are 1 008 private schools in the country and this year there are 1 428 CHED argues that it was successful in reducing the number of schools increasing tuition They cited that there are only about one fourth of the total schools that increase tuition but that s a half truth They didn t cite that the number of private schools also increased clarified Delos Reyes Another claim of CHED that has been disproved by the facts is the claim that they have reduced the average percent increase in tuition In 1997 it was 16 33 and only 9 53 in 2006 However the peso equivalent in 1997 was 28 28 pesos per unit while in 2006 it was 31 04 pesos per unit added Delos Reyes More fees to come Aside from tuition students pay another gamut of school fees In 2004 CHED issued a list of the ten most common fees charged by schools in a survey conducted in 10 regions and 144 schools The list includes registration library medical dental athletics audio visual guidance laboratory NSTP and ID fee Law states that tuition fees should be appropriated 70 20 10 Seventy percent must go to salary of personnel of the school twenty percent go to infrastructure and only 10 percent must go to return of investment

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