Sen. Edgardo J. Angara, chairman of the Senate Education, Arts, and Culture Committee, Friday urged sweeping reforms that would lift the country’s educational system after noting that the country is producing 2.13-million college dropouts annually.
In last Thursday’s hearing by the Angara committee on complaints against inordinately high miscellaneous fees collected by private colleges and universities, college students cited Commission on Higher Education (CHED) data showing that enrollees in higher education institutions (HEIs) from 2001 to the present have reached 2.56 million. [ FULL STORY ]
