2. AN ACT PROMOTING UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO QUALITY TERTIARY
EDUCATION BY PROVIDING FOR FREE TUITION AND OTHER SCHOOL
FEES IN STATE UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES, LOCAL UNIVERSITIES
AND COLLEGES AND STATE-RUN TECHNICAL-VOCATIONAL
INSTITUTIONS, ESTABLISHING THE TERTIATRY EDUCATION SUBSIDY
AND STUDENT LOAN PROGRAM. STRENGTHENING THE UNIFIED
STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE SYSTEM FOR TERTIARY
EDUCATION, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR.
UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO QUALITY TERTIARY
EDUCATION ACT (RA 10931)
3. UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO QUALITY TERTIARY EDUCATION ACT (RA 10931)
PROVISIONS:
• Provide adequate funding and such other mechanisms to increase the
participation rate among all socioeconomic classes in tertiary education
• Provide all Filipinos with equal opportunity to quality tertiary education in
both the private and public educational institutions
• Give priority to students who are academically able and who come from
poor families
• Ensure the optimized utilization of government resources in education
• Provide adequate guidance and incentives in channeling young Filipinos in
their career choices and towards the proper development and utilization
of human resources
• Recognize the complementary roles of public and private institutions in
tertiary educational system.
4. In consonance with the mandate of the Commission on Higher Education
(CHED) as provided for in Article XIV, Section 1 of the Philippine Constitution “to
protect and promote the right of all citizens to quality education at all levels and shall
take appropriate steps to make such education accessible to all” and Article XIV,
Section 2(3) “to establish and maintain a system of scholarship grants, student loan
programs, subsidies, and other incentives which shall be available to deserving
students in both public and private schools” the Commission en Banc (CEB) approved
the Enhanced Guidelines for the Implementation of Student Financial Assistance
Programs (StuFAPs) effective AY 2014-2015, the CMO No. 13, s. 2014, by virtue of
Resolution No. 045-2015 and 148-2014 dated January 27, 2014 and March 10, 2014,
respectively.
To date, the CHED continues to provide poor and deserving Filipinos
opportunities to quality higher education as articulated in its Long Term Development
Plan provisions for “Access and Equity” with the establishment and maintenance of
scholarship, grants-in-aid and loan programs.
STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS (StuFAP’s)
6. RANTS
• CHED support for paper presentation in international
conference (SPPIC) Program and 2018 Republica Awards
• Grants-in-Aid
• Dissertation Grants
• Thesis Grants
• Support for Paper Presentation on International Conferences
