HAU Concedes, freezes TOFI

HAU concedes, freezes TOFI

The student body through united, and independent representations composed of petitions, protest actions, and dialogues pulled off a victory as the University announced the halting of the 6% Tuition and 22% miscellaneous fee increase for the Academic Year 2020 - 2021.

“Ipinapakita rin nito na ang pwersang nagkakaisa ng masang estudyante at ang alyansa ng mga publikasyon, organisasyon at mga student council departments na posibleng maigpawan ang anumang pahirap na polisiyang nais ipatupad ng pamantasan.” said HAU Speak Now, an alliance of student councils, publications and organizations

in Holy Angel University.

This move of the University was made possible through dialogues, petitions and protest actions initiated by the student body.

Actions such as the 4-point position paper appealed by the University Student Council resulted into a series of College Student Council - Admin consultations and the 7-Point demand petition and the #HAUyokoNa online protest in a combined effort of the University Student Council ,The Angelite and Anakbayan HAU with College Student councils, publications and organizations through the HAU SPEAK

NOW alliance.

Nationwide TOFI fight amidst COVID

“Student councils, as the premiere youth formation in colleges and universities, stand in solidarity with the people directly and indirectly affected by the Covid-19 crisis, which is a factor mainly of a system that perpetuates the commercialization of both education and health services,” said the National Union of the Student Philippines as stated in their 5 Student Demands petition.

The union also said that the lack of preparedness of the government when

it comes COVID - 19 gave rise to the inability for the educational sector to adjust to the situation including also unprioritized public health care, and weak policies protecting our workers, and among others.

The 5 student demand includes the call suspension of online classes, stop collection of fees and impending tuition and other fees incr ease, sustain teaching and non teaching staff salaries, preserve student representation through genuine student councils, and to stop the railroading of anti - student and repressive policies such as ROTC.

The petition is supported and

signed by 32 University Student Councils in both public and private institutions across the country including the Holy Angel University Student Council.

TOFI continues - CHED

“On the part of the universities they may need a bigger tuition increase because they have to compensate for lost income because for example if there is no summer class, there is no revenue on the part of the private universities for summer.” said Commision on Higher Education Chairman Prospero de Vera.