‘Access to higher education up 47%’
MANILA, Philippines — Access to higher education has increased to 47 percent from 32 percent as the government promotes the “equity dimension,” the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) said Wednesday.
“The legacy of the Marcos administration is the equity dimension. It is consciously identifying marginalized groups and students in public schools and from indigenous communities to bring them into the university,” CHED chairman J. Prospero de Vera III told The STAR during the 31st CHED founding anniversary and 5th National Higher Education Day in Quezon City.
“If we don’t do the equity dimension, those who will enter universities are students who are more prepared and attended review classes,” he noted.
At the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, De Vera said the acceptance rate is only 10 percent.
“At least 130,000 (students) take the exam, only 13,000 get accepted,” he said.
At the University of the Philippines, the acceptance rate is 15 percent.
“UP has become very elitist, private school-(oriented),” De Vera said.
The UP administration is implementing measures to increase the number of college admission test passers from public schools, he noted.
Testing centers were increased and more students in rural areas were encouraged to take the entrance exam, he said.
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