Bulacan State University

City of Malolos, Bulacan

Graduate School

Current Issues in Education

Name: Joana Carina A. Cuevas

Question # 1: Cite advantages and disadvantages of RA 10931 or the Universal Access to Quality
Tertiary Education Act.

Answer # 1: Advantages of RA 10931 Disadvantages of RA 10931

 Productive Society  Discrimination

 Promotes fairness  Not Free At All
 Better Outlook in Life  Everybody Wants to
be Somebody

Question # 2: Compare private from public schools in term of fiscal management.

Answer # 2 :

Question # 3: What are the issues/problems commonly encountered by private schools?

Answer # 3:
Some of the issues/problems that encountered by a private school are:
 Competition
 Parental Engagement
 Communication
 Pitfalls of Technology
 Inefficiencies

Question # 4: Discuss the roles of FAPE (Fund Assistance for Private Education).

Answer # 4:
The Fund for Assistance to Private Education (FAPE) is a non-profit organization
based in, with the mandate of providing assistance to private education
institutions in the Philippines. FAPE was mainly responsible for the
establishment of the Private Education Retirement Annuity Association (PERAA),
a multi-employer trust fund presently providing a retirement plan for about
one-third of al private school personnel, and the Center for Educational
 Measurement (CEM), the biggest private educational testing agency in the
country. FAPE had also been a major source of logistic and technical support for
the Federation of Accrediting Agencies of the Philippines (FAAP), the country's
official certifying agency for accreditation, until it was spun off in 1988 into a
separate agency which at present is the recipient of a regular Department of
Education (DepEd) subsidy.

Question # 5: Give five functions of Board of Regents/Trustees in SUCs governed by RA 8292.

Answer # 5:
Five functions of Board of Regents/Trustees in SUCs

to enact rules and regulations not contrary to law as may be necessary to carry
to carry out the purposes and functions of the university or college;
to receive and appropriate all sums as may be provided, for the support of the
university or college in the manner it may determine, in its discretion, to carry
out the purposes and functions of the university or college;
to fix the tuition fees and other necessary school charges, such as but not
limited matriculation fees, graduation fees and laboratory fees, as their
respective boards may deem proper to impose after due consultations with the
involved sectors.
to adopt and implement a socialized scheme of tuition and school fees for
greater access to poor but deserving students;
to appoint, upon the recommendation of the president of the university or
college, vice presidents, deans, directors, heads of departments, faculty
members and other officials and employees;

Question # 6: Compare and Contrast the functions of faculty members in SUCs and those in basic
education.

Answer # 6: