Youths push for bigger education budget

BY JEZZA NEPOMOCENO

ILOILO City – Some 2,000 youth activists urged President Benigno Aquino III to prioritize education by allotting it with a bigger budget.

“The educational system is already in a state of calamity,” said Lean Redino Porquia, regional chairperson of the Kabataan Partylist.

On Monday, activists here took to the streets while Aquino delivered his first State of the Nation Address in Congress.

Porquia said the government is not sincere in making education a priority in the national budget.

He also said it lacks the political to address the “elitist characteristic” of the Philippine Congress.

Regine Manderico, vice president for Visayas of the National Union of Students in the Philippines (NUSP), said six percent of the total gross domestic product (GDP) should be allocated for education in adherence to the United Nations recommendation for Third World countries to develop their educational system.

In the Philippines, Manderico said only two percent of the GDP is allotted to education while military expenditure enjoys four percent./PN

 

 
   
 
   


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