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CHED Chairman J. Prospero De Vera III (Photo from Prospero De Vera’s Facebook page) CHED Chairman Prospero de Vera III said the recent row between the DND and the State university is expected to happen as the pact between the two institutions has “no clear operational details for implementation.” “I assert that the implementation of the DND-UP accord was destined to be problematic. The accord has no clear detailed operational details to implement the provisions of the agreement,” De Vera, a faculty member of UP for almost four decades, said. “The Joint Monitoring Group composed of...

UP ROTC alumni express grave concern, ask DND to reconsider ending accord By TED CORDERO, GMA News Published January 22, 2021 5:07pm The UP Vanguard Inc. is calling on the Department of National Defense (DND) to reconsider its termination of a 31-year-old agreement with the University of Philippines banning the entry into the university of military and police forces without prior coordination with UP officials. “The UP Vanguard Inc. joins the whole University of the Philippines (UP) community in expressing its grave concern on the unilateral abrogation by the Department of National ...

No safe space for Philippines’ Indigenous youth as military allowed on campus by Mongabay.com on 22 January 2021 The Philippines’ Department of National Defense has unilaterally terminated an accord that ensured the 17 campuses of the University of the Philippines were off-limits to the military and police. The defense secretary justified the move by alleging that insurgents from the banned communist party and its armed wing are using the campuses’ sanctuary status as cover for their recruitment and propaganda purposes. The decision has alarmed displaced Indigenous students who are har...

January 22, 2021 | 7:36 pm Font Size         THE Oblation at Dusk by Dr. Eloisa May Hernandez — VMEMECONTEMPORARY.COM The Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) will convene a panel to discuss academic freedom and how law enforcers can protect it, according to the agency. This was after the Philippine military unilaterally ended a deal with the University of the Philippines (UP) banning soldiers inside the state institution. “The implementation of the Department of National Defense-UP accord was destined to be problematic,” CHEd Chairman J. Prospero E. de Vera III said i...

As DND scraps accord, PNP suddenly calls Barangay UP Campus as crime hotspot 2377 '); Philippine National Police released a statement declaring Barangay UP Campus a crime hotspot all of a sudden as the university is seeking to discuss with the Department of National Defense its unilateral junking of their 1989 accord to keep police and military outside the campus. PNP Public Information Office said the jurisdiction covering much of the grounds belonging to the University of the Philippines Diliman ranked 20th in the peace and order indicator of Quezon City since 2016. The city has a total o...