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In separate statements, the UP campuses of Manila, Baguio, Cebu and Visayas have called to surface three activists whose whereabouts continue to be unknown as well as others who have similarly gone missing over the years.
President Leni Robredo and Sen. Francis Pangilinan emerged as the most preferred candidates for president and vice president, respectively, in mock polls conducted in various universities in the country.
Published April 16, 2021, 10:47 PM
The tension between the administration of University of the East (UE) and members of student bodies continues to escalate as concerns raised on “revoked” scholarships deemed to be unresolved.
A series of posts on the official Facebook page of RedWire, an independent student-led online publication based in UE, revealed letters sent by UE President Ester Garcia and the presidents of UE-Manila University Student Council (USC) and UE-Caloocan Central Student Council (CSC) to the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) on the issue of “unjust” revocation of scholarships.
In a letter addressed to CHED National Capital Region (NCR) Director Dr. Virginia Akiate dated April 15, UE-Manila USC President Justine Jae Calatong formally asked CHED to conduct an “investigation of the disqualification of the students” in the UE’s scholarship grants.
By ANNA FELICIA BAJO, GMA News
Published January 19, 2021 5:06pm Various student councils from the University of the Philippines denounced the move of the Department of National Defense to end its 31-year-old agreement with UP regarding the prohibition on the entry of police and military in its campuses. They maintained that the DND's decision was an attack on academic freedom as well as on freedom of speech. "This goes against the decades of the student and people's defense against the violation of our academic freedom, our right to study, speak, and investigate on social issues without the risk of political persecution and human rights violation," the UP Los Baños Student Council said.
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 19) — Vice President Leni Robredo, several lawmakers, and progressive youth groups denounced the Department of National Defense's decision to abrogate its three-decade agreement with the University of the Philippines that bars uniformed personnel from entering UP campuses without notifying school officials.
The Duterte administration's unilateral termination of the deal is clearly meant to silence the government's critics, Robredo said Tuesday, pointing out that the accord simply asks law enforcers to give notice to the university before conducting any security operations inside their campuses.
"This is neither a difficult nor onerous rule... Clearly, then, this is not a practical gesture, but a symbolic one. One designed to sow fear. One designed to discourage dissent. One designed to silence criticism," she said.
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 19) — Vice President Leni Robredo, several lawmakers, and progressive youth groups denounced the Department of National Defense's decision to abrogate its three-decade agreement with the University of the Philippines that bars uniformed personnel from entering UP campuses without notifying school officials.
The Duterte administration's unilateral termination of the deal is clearly meant to silence the government's critics, Robredo said Tuesday, pointing out that the accord simply asks law enforcers to give notice to the university before conducting any security operations inside their campuses.
"This is neither a difficult nor onerous rule... Clearly, then, this is not a practical gesture, but a symbolic one. One designed to sow fear. One designed to discourage dissent. One designed to silence criticism," she said.