Kabataan Partylist Representative Raymond Palatino said that the youth failed to hear Pres. Aquino’s concrete plans for education in his first State of the Nation Address.
He said that he feared Aquino’s framework of promoting ‘public-private partnerships and more aggressive foreign investments’ would only intensify privatization, commercialization and corporatization of education.
According to Palatino, “Opening further the education sector to private and foreign investors would only make education less accessible to the youth. It does not at all address the need for higher state subsidy nor the yearly tuition and other fee hikes …