With an impending wave of proposed tuition and other fee increases this month, Kabataan Party-list, with full support of the House Committee on Higher and Technical Education, held today with students and stakeholders the first-ever consultative assembly in Congress to regulate tuition and other fees.
“The assembly is venue for students and stakeholders to voice their views on the increasing inaccessibility of higher education and to participate in the crafting of regulatory guidelines to address the long-standing problem of unabated tuition and other fee increases in both private and public universities …

The insufficient budget for social services and the bloated questionable funds for debt-servicing, unprogrammed funds, military and band-aid programs have prompted Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raymond “Mong” Palatino today to join the “camp-out” protest at Mendiola and to urge the youth to take part in the series of actions calling for systemic change.
Palatino explained that in 2012 national budget recently approved by the bicameral conference committee and now awaiting the signature of President Benigno Aquino III, Filipinos are being denied of their right to humane funding for basic social needs.
With the …