Maza supports students against PUP's 2,000% Tuition hike

Nacionalista-Makabayan senatorial candidate and Gabriela Rep. Liza Maza today supported the walk-out of students of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines to decry the proposed almost 2,000 percent tuition increase in the University.

“PUP is the only national state university which has the lowest rate of tuition. With the proposed increase, the government is denying the right of the children of poor peasants and workers to education,” Maza asserted.

The proposed tuition hike will affect 50,000 new enrollees next year. The PUP Board of Regents is expected to discuss the said proposal in a meeting on March 29.

The Gabriela solon said that this move is being done parallel to the reduction of state subsidy for the University, from its 2009 budget at P704M to P661M in 2010.

“I am appealing to the PUP Board of Regents to recognize the right of the students to accessible education and junk the proposed tuition increase,” Maza said. ###