YES to 0% Tuition Fee Increase!!

I am a BS Accountancy major. And i pay almost three hundred and forty (P340.00) pesos per unit every semester plus more than three thousand (P3,000.00+) pesos in matriculation and other fees. In short, my total semestral fees for this semester is about P13,000.00. If the school administration pursues the proposed 10% increase in tuition fees, then i would need to add up another P34.00 per unit. So, if i am planning to enroll another 27 units for the next semester, i would probably be paying almost P15,000.00! I haven't even added the would-be increase in the miscellaneous fees! See the difference? Actually, i don't really need to be a CPA just to figure that out.

I can't see any reason for another tuition fee hike. as per CHED memorandum #13, it states that the propsed increase should not be more than the present inflation. Isn't it that OFWs have been complaining due to the sudden resistance of the peso to inflation? The latest peso-dollar rate i have known had been at the P40-1$ level. Is South Cotabato economy isolated from the national scenario? Or is south cotabato having another currency different from the peso that the national government had not yet discovered to exist? Well actually, i know the OFWs' dollar remittance is not the only determinant of inflation. According to my Econ teacher (again) and the daily papers, i have read the present inflation is at around 8.5 %.

Frankly speaking, i am quite puzzled by this undertaking of the NDMU administration. During consulation dialogues on issues such as this, they always try to compare the fees with other universities. But when students compare the facilities and the quality of education being delivered by those universities, they say they are two incomparable things. Come on..

Why am i reacting violently? It is because i feel the burden of earning the money i pay for these fees yet i do not get my money's worth. I do not get to enjoy the park lights at the college of business grounds because the guards say lights should not be turned on at night. How pathetic! I do not get to enjoy the liberty of being shielded from the rain or from the heat of the sun even when i am inside the MJH classrooms. Much more, i do not get to experience being developed by the development fee and i do not see any development or improvement in the campus facilities aside from the new administration building. I think the admin is facing a critical problem on how to spend and expend the funds of the school into the things they are not supposed to be focusing on. They say the energy fee they had imposed was still insufficient for the monthly electric bills of the school. Then why the hell do they have to put park lights in areas which are not parks? Considering in the first place that these whole bunch of lights would consume a big amount of electricity. Truly, some people do not know what irony is.

Anyway, i don't think i'm the only person in this world who has angst on the administration. We are all affected and it has a domino effect. So let's speak up and get ourselves involved. We don't necessarily have to put barricades or become mob leaders. We just need to show those in power that we are also concerned with or future and where our money goes..