{"id":38646,"date":"2017-08-04T05:33:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T05:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=38646"},"modified":"2017-08-04T05:33:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T05:33:31","slug":"philippines-duterte-signs-law-granting-free-public-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/philippines-duterte-signs-law-granting-free-public-college.html","title":{"rendered":"Philippines Duterte signs law granting free public college"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Philippines Duterte signs law granting free public college<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Philippines Duterte signs law granting free public college:- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has signed a law granting tuition-free education in all state universities, a Cabinet official said on Friday, setting aside the advice of his economic managers to reject the measure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">The president believed the benefits of the law outweighed the potential short-term budgetary challenges, Menardo Guevarra, senior deputy executive secretary, told a media conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Duterte&#8217;s economic managers have said the government would not be able to afford the cost of free-tuition, estimated at 100 billion pesos ($2 billion) a year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">They also said tuition-free education at state universities and colleges (SUCs) would not benefit the poor because only 12 percent of students in SUCs belong to low-income families.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">&#8220;Free tertiary education in SUCs (state universities and colleges) is a very strong pillar or cornerstone of the president&#8217;s social development policy,&#8221; Guevarra said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Senator Franklin Drilon has said the measure would only require 20-25 billion pesos a year, much less than the economic managers&#8217; estimate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">The Duterte administration has planned a whopping $180 billion infrastructure spending until the end of the president&#8217;s term in 2022. 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