Private university students call for end to tuition fee hikes

Students from private universities in the Philippines have called on the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) to order a moratorium on tuition fee increases in their schools, citing how these would further burden families amid rising prices of basic commodities, writes Dempsey Reyes for the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

The National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP), Kabataan party list, and student councils from the University of the East (UE) Manila, UE Caloocan, Colegio de San Juan de Letran, De La Salle University and the Saint Louis University in Baguio City submitted their respective position papers to CHEd on Monday 10 March, lamenting the higher tuition fees for the academic year 2025-26.

The NUSP and Kabataan pointed out in a six-page position paper to CHEd that the majority of students in private higher education institutions are “undoubtedly affected by the yearly tuition and other fees increase … As prices of basic social services rise, the yearly [increase] adds burden to families.”
Full report on the Philippine Daily Inquirer site