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Dec
03
2011

Ineligibility tagging alarms students: UP’s painful enrollment process

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By Melissa Luz Lopez
Juan Alcanices, a transferee student from the Trinity University of Asia, was all set for the enrollment second semester this year. After all, he had already submitted his Bracket B certification form, his family’s income tax return and the vicinity map of their residence – requirements for the Socialized Tuition Financial Assistance [...]

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Sep
04
2011

Show me the money: USC’s failure to publish financial reports

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By Karlitos Brian Decena, Gianfranco Geronimo and Dawnavie Dadis
Fifteen years ago, Ibarra Gutierrez III did the unusual: he served as the student council chairperson of the University of the Philippines Diliman just three months after his term as the editor-in-chief of UP’s official publication, the Philippine Collegian.
But Gutierrez’s uniqueness did not change an old misdeed [...]

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