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Rejoinder of the All UP
Academic Union(AUPAU) to the Response of the de Dios Committee to the
AUPAU Position Paper on the Proposal to Increase Tuition and Other Fees for
incoming UP students
The de Dios Committee has reacted to the
Position Paper of the All UP Academic Union(AUPAU) pointing out certain
clarifications regarding its final report on the proposal for the increase
of tuition and miscellaneous fees for new UP students, which it submitted to
the BOR. While in its proposal, it did not show the increase of average
family incomes of Filipinos from 1988 to 2003, it now presents this as table
R1 in its response to AUPAU(see Table 1 below) to justify the increases of
tuition fee to a minimum of P300/unit to the full tuition fee of P1000 to
P1500/unit(the latter for the richest UP students) for Group 1 and P200/unit
to P1000/unit for Group 2(see Table 2 and Table 3). With these new data, the
de Dios committee believes that its recommendation to increase tuition and
other fees for incoming freshmen is warranted since family incomes for
Filipinos have trebled from 1988 to 2003.
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Table 1:
(Table R1 in de Dios Committee Responses to Some Questions on the
Proposed Tutition-Fee Revisions) |
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Average Family Income by Decile, 1988 and 2003(In pesos) |
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1988 |
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2003 |
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Ratio |
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Poorest |
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8,160 |
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26,467 |
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3.24 |
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Second Decile |
12,866 |
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42,354 |
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3.29 |
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Third Decile |
16,398 |
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55,052 |
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3.36 |
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Fourth Decile |
20,179 |
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68,863 |
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3.41 |
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Fifth Decile |
24,329 |
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85,391 |
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3.51 |
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Sixth Decile |
29,460 |
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106,029 |
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3.6 |
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Seventh Decile |
36,482 |
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134,473 |
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3.69 |
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Eight Decile |
46,774 |
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175,784 |
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3.76 |
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Ninth Decile |
64,607 |
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245,939 |
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3.81 |
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Richest Decile |
144,805 |
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545,836 |
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3.77 |
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Source: Family Income and expenditure surveys, NSCB |
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Table 2(Table
9 of the final report) |
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Tuition-fee discounts by bracket and campus-group |
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(in pesos per credit-unit) |
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Bracket |
Group 1 |
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Group 11 |
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A |
0 |
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0 |
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B |
300 |
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200 |
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C |
600 |
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400 |
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D |
1,000 |
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600 |
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E |
1,500 |
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1,000 |
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Group 1: Diliman, Manila, Los Banos |
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Group 11: Baguio, Visayas, Mindanao |
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Table 3:(Table 10 of the
final repot)
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Family-income distribution by decile: entering UP freshmen 2004 |
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and all households 2003 |
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(in thousands of pesos per annum) |
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Entering freshmen |
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National |
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Decile |
Income |
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Average |
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Average |
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Average |
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Maximum* |
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Income** |
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Income |
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Expenditure |
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A |
Poorest |
36,000 |
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13,511 |
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26,467 |
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28,588 |
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Second |
65,000 |
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52,188 |
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42,354 |
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43,556 |
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B |
Third |
98,169 |
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80,609 |
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55,052 |
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55,096 |
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Fourth |
135,140 |
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116,216 |
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68,863 |
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66,147 |
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Fifth |
182,239 |
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159,687 |
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85,391 |
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80,204 |
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C |
Sixth |
247,264 |
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215,473 |
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106,029 |
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98,701 |
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Seventh |
340,000 |
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288,047 |
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134,473 |
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120,972 |
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Eight |
509,200 |
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417,122 |
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175,784 |
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152,501 |
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D |
Ninth |
700,000 |
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591,796 |
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245,939 |
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204,834 |
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E |
Richest |
8,105,618 |
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1,186,699 |
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545,836 |
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393,191 |
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