DepEd eyes exclusion of rich students from subsidy

State university administrators and the government need to fix the implementation of free college tuition subsidies to prevent wealthy students from pushing out deserving and underprivileged students from the program, Education Secretary Sonny Angara said.

- By NEIL JAYSON SERVALLOS

Angara said fixing the implementation of the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act was crucial, as resources for the education sector have been thinly spread after education subsidy was expanded to college.

“A lot of the resources maybe that should have gone to basic education is being spread more thinly, so now… even students in UP (University of the Philippines) are (tuition) free, but if you look at the students in UP, so many come from well-off families,” Angara told “Thought Leaders” yesterday on One News.

Angara, a UP alumnus, said the government should not subsidize “kids of the rich, but that’s what we’re doing with the existing implementation.”