Country: Philippines                          
Title:    Guidelines on Tuition and/or Other School Fees in Private
          Schools, Colleges and Universities for School Year
          1990-1991
Author:            Isidro D. . Carino, Secretary.  
Institution:       DECS
Citations:         DECS ORDER No. 50, s. 1990.  
Descriptors:       Fees; Private schools.  
Full text: 1.0   DECLARATION OF POLICY

         It is the declared policy of the State in conformity with
  the mandate of the Constitution, to promote and enhance the quality
  of education at all levels and to take appropriate steps to make
  such education accessible to all.  The State also recognizes the
  invaluable contributions of the private institutions as well as
  their complementary role with public schools in the education
  system.  For the above purposes, the State shall provide mechanisms
  to maximize existing resources of private education, deregulate
  private schools to the fullest extent consistent with national
  policy, and prescribe reasonable requirements for the
  accountability of private school administrators.

    2.0   GENERAL PROVISIONS

  2.1   These guidelines covering tuition and/or other fees are
  hereby promulgated for School Year 1990-1991 and shall be
  enforceable and in efect until otherwise changed, modified or
  repealed.

  2.2   Tuition increases shall be used to cover expenses for the
  cost of instruction, including, but not limited to salaries for
  faculty and wages for non-teaching personnel, thirteenth month pay
  and other benefits as herein provided, except those with respect to
  other fees which should be held in trust and spent for the purposes
  for which they were collected.

     2.2.1  Tuition subsidies or tuition increases shall be allocated
  as follows:

        2.2.1.1   70 percent of the amount subsidized/allotted for
  tuition or of the tuition increases shall go to the payment of
  salaries, wages, allowances, and other benefits of teaching and
  non-teaching personnel except administrators who are principal
  stockholders of the school.

        2.2.1.2   20 percent shall go to the improvement or
  modernization of buildings, equipment, libraries, laboratories,
  gymnasium and similar facilities of other costs of operation.

  3.0  SPECIFIC PROVISIONS

  3.1  Starting SY 1990-91 tuition and/or other fees of all incoming
  freshmen in all levels are deregulated subject to consultation as
  defined in Section 5.0 hereof.

    3.2   Schools enrolling students in second, third and fourth year
  this school year 1990-91 may increase tuition and other fees
  provided that the increase is not more than one-half of the
  inflation rate as of May 1990 officially released by NEDA based on
  fees charged during the year immediately preceding or when the
  increase is fully covered by the subsidy.  However, if the increase
  is more than half of the inflation rate or is not fully covered by
  the subsidy, consultation shall be required.

    3.3   For schools desiring to increase their tuition and/or other
  fees beyond what is provided for in section 3.2, but whose programs
  are below Level II accreditation, the following, subject to
  consultation, must be submitted to DECS Regional Offices for
  evaluation and approval/disapproval.  No school may collect any
  increase in tuition and other fees prior to DECS approval. 
  Deadline for filing of application must not be later than June 30,
  1990.