For quite sometime, Western Mindanao State University ventures to a clever way of admitting students beyond its capacity relative to its appropriation from the government. They call this concept as the CORPORATE PROGRAM. This idea is characterized by admitting students beyond the university's capacity by letting them pay for their facilities, teachers and other materials that cannot be shouldered anymore by the government. This is currently practiced in the College of Nursing, College of Science and Mathematics, College of Education, College of Liberal Arts, College of Home Econmics and the Integrated Laboratory School. Under this program, a student's tuition is usually ten times higher than the tuition of the regular student.
What do Republic Act 8292 say about this?
Paragraph W, Section 4 of the Republic Act 8292 prescribes the power and function of the Board of Regent as to "privatize, where most advantageous to the institution, management and non-academic services such as health, food, building or grounds or property maintenance and similar such other objectives;". Following this clear mandate from the law, an educational institution like WMSU can only privatize non-academic engagements and never its academic offerings. Clearly, this practice violates this provision in the law. However, up to this point of time, court litigation are still impracticable since no complaints coming from the concerned against this unjust and unfair practice was filed before the proper forum.
What is my proposal?
To avoid future problems, we must convert all existing corporate programs into regular ones.
How?
We will request the House of Representatives through our local legislator to increase the allocation of WMSU during the enactment of the General Appropriations Act. This will in return expand the quota of the university and each College in admissions. As an immediate action, we will absorb all existing Corporate students and grant them equal privileges to that of the regular ones. As a long term solution, the University must intensify its screening process during admissions in order to ensure the good composition of the students of the university.
Corporate and Regular students alike must have equal access to school facilities and enjoy equal privileges and rights. What's being savored by a regular student must be tasted as well by its counterpart. After all, both students took the same examination and passed it using the same standard.
What do Republic Act 8292 say about this?
Paragraph W, Section 4 of the Republic Act 8292 prescribes the power and function of the Board of Regent as to "privatize, where most advantageous to the institution, management and non-academic services such as health, food, building or grounds or property maintenance and similar such other objectives;". Following this clear mandate from the law, an educational institution like WMSU can only privatize non-academic engagements and never its academic offerings. Clearly, this practice violates this provision in the law. However, up to this point of time, court litigation are still impracticable since no complaints coming from the concerned against this unjust and unfair practice was filed before the proper forum.
What is my proposal?
To avoid future problems, we must convert all existing corporate programs into regular ones.
How?
We will request the House of Representatives through our local legislator to increase the allocation of WMSU during the enactment of the General Appropriations Act. This will in return expand the quota of the university and each College in admissions. As an immediate action, we will absorb all existing Corporate students and grant them equal privileges to that of the regular ones. As a long term solution, the University must intensify its screening process during admissions in order to ensure the good composition of the students of the university.
Corporate and Regular students alike must have equal access to school facilities and enjoy equal privileges and rights. What's being savored by a regular student must be tasted as well by its counterpart. After all, both students took the same examination and passed it using the same standard.
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