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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 1424 -
DIRECTING A SYSTEMATIC EFFORT TO INCREASE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
ASSISTANCE TO STUDENTS. |
The Minister of Labor and Employment
The Members, Educational Assistance Policy Council
WHEREAS, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports administers various programs intended to assist students mainly through scholarship and loan programs;
WHEREAS, it is necessary to review the terms and conditions of these student assistance programs in view of the rising cost of education;
WHEREAS, LOI No. 1405 issued on May 1, 1984 directed the expansion of the study now pay later plan:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by Law, do hereby Order and Instruct:
1.
The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports shall increase the number
of slots available in the various scholarship and grant in said
programs that it administers. It shall review the terms and conditions
of scholarships and grants in aid, with the aim of liberalizing
qualifying requirements, including the extension of preferential
treatment to the children of schoolteachers and education support
personnel.
2. The
Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports shall develop and encourage
student assistantships and other work programs intended for students
working their way through school;
3. The
Educational Assistance Policy Council shall reassess the terms and
conditions of the study now pay later program, with the view to
increase the number and/or size of loans granted, liberalize the
qualifying requirements for loans, and expand the
regional/school/course distribution of recipients;
4. Budgetary
savings of the Ministries of Education, Culture and Sports and of Labor
and Employment may be utilized to augment the resources of scholarship,
grant and loan programs for students;
5. The
administration of the scholarship, grant, loan and other student
assistance programs of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports
shall be improved with the creation of a single student assistance
center, combining existing organizational units separately handling
scholarship, loan, grant and other programs of financial assistance to
the students. The center shall act as Secretariat to the Educational
Assistance Policy Council;
Done in the City of Manila, this 10th day of September, nineteen hundred and eighty four.
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