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UP Manila, Los Baños suspend tuition collection for now

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/news/07/26/up.jpg?ext=.jpg"/><figcaption>University of the Philippines Los Banos. <em>Demerie Dangla, ABS-CBN News</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA-Both the University of the Philippines Los Baños and Manila will not collect tuition from undergraduate students for the first semester of academic year 2017-2018 &quot;until further notice.&quot;</p><p>UP Manila made the announcement in a memorandum Tuesday while UP Los Baños bared the suspension of tuition collection from undergraduate students Wednesday.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/news/07/26/up-los.jpg?ext=.jpg"/><figcaption><em>Photo courtesy of UP-Manila website</em></figcaption></figure></div><div><script src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v2.5" async="" type="text/javascript"></script></div><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/UPLB.fb/photos/a.249477533994.139460.186654778994/10154941380073995/?type=3&amp;theater" data-width="auto"> </div><p>&quot;As instructed by Chancellor Fernando C. Sanchez Jr, tuition fee collection for undergraduate students for the first semester of A.Y. 2017-2018 shall be suspended until further notice,&quot; the UP Los Baños memorandum read.</p><p>Earlier this month, UP Diliman chancellor Michael Tan said the state university will not collect tuition from its students as well.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/11/17/tan-no-tuition-in-up-diliman-in-upcoming-semester">Tan: No tuition in UP Diliman in upcoming semester</a></li></ul><p>In December 2016, authorities announced that tuition in the undergraduate programs of state universities and colleges (SUC) will be free following an additional P8.3-billion funding granted to the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/12/16/16/free-tuition-in-sucs-eyed-with-p83-b-ched-infusion">READ: Free tuition in SUCs eyed with P8.3-B CHED infusion</a></li></ul><p>CHED Chairperson Patricia Licuanan had said the P8.3 billion initially for projects in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) was reallocated to their agency.</p><p>The P8.3 billion was part of the P3.35 trillion Philippine budget ratified by Congress in 2016.</p>

<p>Both the University of the Philippines Los Baños and Manila will not collect tuition from undergraduate students for the first semester of academic year 2017-2018 "until further notice."</p>

Both the University of the Philippines Los Baños and Manila will not collect tuition from undergraduate students for the first semester of academic year 2017-2018 "until further notice."