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The Department of National Defense (DND) is eyeing exchange of students and professors between the University of the Philippines (UP) and the military schools to ease the tension brought by the unilateral abrogation of the agreement that prohibits easy access of soldiers in UP campuses to preserve t
By JOVILAND RITA, GMA News Published February 8, 2021 11:00am Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Monday said he is open to reconsidering his decision to terminate the agreement with the University of the Philippines (UP) banning police and military forces inside campus. Interviewed on CNN Philippines, Lorenzana said that during the meeting of UP and Department of Defense (DND) officials last Thursday, he told UP president Danilo Concepcion that he will think about withdrawing his decision. “I told Danny Concepcion I will think about it,” Lorenzana said when asked if he is consid...
University of the Philippines (up.edu.ph) According to a statement, UP officials led by UP President Danilo Concepcion had a meeting on Friday, Feb. 5, with officials of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) at Camp Crame. “The three parties declared their willingness to form a Technical Working Group (TWG) to study the 28-year-old agreement and, depending on the TWG’s findings and recommendations, to mutually decide whether to amend some of the provisions of the UP-DILG agreement, or to draft a new accord altogether,” the statem...
DILG, UP agree to review 1992 accord Emmanuel Tupas © STAR/Boy Santos/File DILG, UP agree to review 1992 accord MANILA, Philippines — The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the University of the Philippines agreed yesterday to review a 1992 agreement banning the entry of police officers in UP campuses without prior notice. The decision was reached at the end of an hour-long meeting at the Philippine National Police (PNP) headquarters at Camp Crame in Quezon City. Present during the meeting were UP president Danilo Concepcion and chancellor Fid...
Published February 6, 2021 12:42am The University of the Philippines (UP)-based Upsilon Sigma Phi expressed support for the ongoing dialogue between university officials and the Department of National Defense (DND) on the unilateral termination of an agreement on the presence of uniformed men in its campuses. “The principle of academic freedom lies at the cornerstone of any functioning democracy. The right to study, to explore, and to teach without sanction only improves the condition of man,” Upsilon said in a statement. “There is nothing to fear from an independent academe that ...