CALOOCAN CITY, Jan. 28 (PIA) –Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte assures all faculty and students in the University of the Philippines Diliman of the City Government’s support for academic freedom in the embattled University.
“I was a lecturer at the UP before, and I know how important academic freedom is in an educational institution,” Belmonte said.
True learning will only happen in an environment where there is a free discourse of ideas by all members of the community.
Quezon City is known as a bastion of higher learning being host to many prestigious universities and colleges. “In Quezon City, academic freedom will always be protected and upheld,” Belmonte stressed.