Protest vs tuition increase opens national youth week
SunStar.com.ph
January 16, 2012

 STUDENTS and out-of-school youths in Davao City marked Monday with protest the beginning of the ten-day countdown before the culmination of the National Youth Week on January 26.

Monday’s protest highlighted the issue of the proposed tuition increase at Brokenshire College of Davao.

Last Friday, around 250 students of the Brokenshire College of Davao braved the cold, heavy downpour and threats of sanctions as they stood in protest of the proposed 200-percent hike in tuition.

Brokenshirians lambasted the administration’s alleged scheme in commercializing education, especially in a non-stock, non-profit academic institution like Brokenshire College of Davao.

Christian dela Cruz, the prime minister of the Supreme Student Council of Brokenshire College, said the proposal to increase tuition did not undergo genuine consultation as the administrators failed to provide the students with the official financial statement of the school and the students no longer had the chance to study the proposal.

“It was never a consultation. It was more of a presentation of their plans,” dela Cruz said.

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