The Philippine Senate has approved on third and final
reading the Senate Bill 2275. An act which shall be known as “Iskolar ng Bayan Act of 2014”, wherein the Top Ten (10) public high school students of their graduating class, based on the cumulative results at the 11 final grading period, shall be given automatic admission to State Universities and 12 Colleges (SUCs) of his or her choice subject to the provisions of this Act.
This act shall cover all SUCs except the University of the Philippines because of its institutional autonomy as the national university under Republic Act No. 9500 or the "University of the Philippines Charier of 2008"; Provided, that the University of the Phi:lippines shall come up with its own scholarship programs for the Top Ten (10) students from public high schools.
Scholarship grants includes:
a. Free tuition fee and other school fees to the Iskolar ng Bayan in all SUCs;
b. Reasonable textbook allowance per academic year as may be determined by CHED based on annual inflationary rates; and
c. Reasonable monthly living allowance based on the cost of living as determined by NEDA for Full Scholarship.
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Press Release
August 6, 2014
This act shall cover all SUCs except the University of the Philippines because of its institutional autonomy as the national university under Republic Act No. 9500 or the "University of the Philippines Charier of 2008"; Provided, that the University of the Phi:lippines shall come up with its own scholarship programs for the Top Ten (10) students from public high schools.
Scholarship grants includes:
a. Free tuition fee and other school fees to the Iskolar ng Bayan in all SUCs;
b. Reasonable textbook allowance per academic year as may be determined by CHED based on annual inflationary rates; and
c. Reasonable monthly living allowance based on the cost of living as determined by NEDA for Full Scholarship.
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Press Release
August 6, 2014
Almost 80,000 students to benefit from landmark measure
Cayetano: 'Iskolar ng Bayan' bill to provide better opportunities
for poor families and their children
Cayetano: 'Iskolar ng Bayan' bill to provide better opportunities
for poor families and their children
"Let us set aside all talks of politics
and focus our efforts on Filipinos families and how to address their
day-to-day problems like how to provide quality education for their
children."
This is the call made by Senator Alan
Peter S. Cayetano to his colleagues in the 16th Congress as he rallied
support for the Iskolar ng Bayan bill which he said would provide
quality education to almost 80,000 students every year if enacted into
law.
"This is one issue we could all agree on,
no matter what political color you carry: that access to quality
education is a right, not a privilege, even at the tertiary level. Let
us provide Filipino families, especially the poor, the kind of education
that would make their lives better," Cayetano, author of the measure,
said.
Senate Bill No. 2275, otherwise known as
the Iskolar ng Bayan bill, proposes the government mandates all state
universities and colleges (SUCs) to give automatic admission and
scholarship grants to the top ten (10) public high school students of
their respective graduating classes. It has been approved on third
reading by the Senate and has recently hurdled the appropriations
committee in the House of Representatives.
Under the measure, SUCs are expected to grant free tuition and other school fees to the Iskolar ng Bayan in all SUCs.
"According to the latest data from DepEd,
there are a total of 7,913 public high schools operating for school
year 2013-2014. That is roughly 79,130 students who are sure of going to
college if this measure is made law, or 79,130 Filipino families who
have a chance of waking up to a better future," Cayetano stated.
"Let us show them that they are still our
number one priority by approving measures like the Iskolar ng Bayan
bill; measures that will directly address the Filipinos' daily
problems." Cayetano said the enactment of this measure becomes
particularly important now that the PDAF has been abolished by Congress,
leaving some 400,000 scholars on their own to fend for their schooling.
He particularly cited the experience in
Taguig City and its local government's strong stance against corruption,
a policy that has propelled the city to be one of best cities in the
country to live in.
"In 2010, the city's scholarship fund was
at a measly P5 million while the allocation for garbage collection was
P500 million. It was a clear injustice. But when Mayor Lani won her
first term, the contract for garbage hauling was cut and the savings was
used to fund a scholarship program. Now with P400-million worth of
scholarship funds under the LANI Scholarship Program, over 24,000
scholars since 2010 were given the opportunity to go to college and in
the process find better and higher paying jobs in the future."
"This is how it should be throughout the
country. If we want to help Filipinos families have better lives, we
have to focus on what is really important. First, let us cleanse our
government from corruption; then, let us maximise the benefits of our
people. Kapag bawal ang corrupt, bigay todo ang biyaya, mas masaya ang
bawat pamilya" he said.
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