Providing free college education to underprivileged students is key in solving the country’s problems of poverty and unemployment.
That is why members of the Quezon City Council are supporting the immediate passage of House Bill 181, which seeks to institute the granting of free college education to poor but deserving students who want to pursue higher education.
As provided for in City Resolution No. SP-6933, S-2016 approved recently by the QC Council, the passage of House Bill 181 is necessary to provide indigent students the opportunity to secure a better future, including their families.
Based on the 2013 Functional Literacy, Education and Media Survey of 36-million Filipinos aged four to 24 years old, one in 10 or about four-million Filipino youth are out of school. In general, out-of-school youth in the country ranged from 14.5 percent to 20.4 percent of the population.
The QC Council will furnish a copy of the resolution, principally authored by Councilors Anthony Peter Crisologo, Victor Ferrer, Jr., Ranulfo Ludovica, Eufemio Lagumbay, Godofredo Liban II and Julienne Alyson Rae Medalla, to the House of Representatives, Department of Education, and the Commission on Higher Education for information.
In Quezon City, the Scholarship and Youth Development Program was primarily launched to extend financial assistance to deserving students among the city’s underprivileged families who wanted to pursue their college education.
The program also works to empower and develop the city’s youth to become more scientific and responsive to the needs of other out-of-school youth.