Should he earn a seat in the Senate in May, independent senatorial candidate Panfilo “Ping” M. Lacson wants to revisit and review the Free Tertiary Education Act of 2017 to make it more accessible, especially to students from poor families.
Lacson said that during the campaign period, he learned of problems with the implementation of the law, including the Commission on Higher Education’s requirement for parents of scholars to pay tuition first and wait for a rebate.
“As we went around the country during the 90-day campaign, we saw problems in the implementation of the law. One is the requirement for some parents to give advance payments, and wait for the rebate. In some cases the CHED is delayed in paying the rebate. In other cases, the rebates do not come at all,” he said.
“This is wrong. The scholarship should be available and the parents should not be made to give advance payments. We should revisit this law in the Senate in the exercise of oversight,” he added.
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