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BOR scraps P150 late payment fee By Dan G. Obligacion
The Board of Regents (BOR) finally approved the abolition of the P150.00 penalty charged from students as late payment fee. This will take effect during the first semester of school year 20162017. The decision was in response to a petition filed by the Supreme Student Council (SSC) which calls for the removal of the additional fee required if a TSU student wasn’t able to pay in full his tuition and miscellaneous fees before the date of payment set in his certificate of
INSIDE THE BARK. Along the streets of J. Luna, Muloy,* who supposedly in school, works at a very young age as a jeepney barker for Balincanaway-San Manuel drivers. Instead of enjoying the rhythm of the ABCs inside the classroom, he has been exhausting his voice throughout the day just to earn a living. He earns P10 for every trip he fills. *not his real name Photo by Pauline Grace Manzano
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MISO improves online registration system After the pilot testing of the online registration in the College of Computer Studies (CCS) and graduate school, the Management Information Systems Office (MISO) conducted improvements on the system to be ready for the university-wide launch. The system now disables unscheduled students from entering the online registration
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link. The schedule of enrollment will be based per college. “Noon ‘yong sa CCS [enrollment] kahit ‘yong mga engineering at CBA [College of Business and Accountancy], napapasukan nila ‘yong link, pero ‘di sila naka-enroll kasi hindi available for online registration ‘yong mga colleges nila,” Prof. Heidilyn Gamido, MISO director, explained. The system now also asks
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If the administration’s response to grievance as to working benefits, Transnational Education (TNE) program, and employment concerns after the “Red Ribbon Day” would be rated from 1 to 10, it would be a 5 according to Prof. Gherold Benitez, Faculty and Personnel Union president. On February 19, members of the teaching and non-teaching force of the university led a propaganda of wearing black attire and a red ribbon. Benitez, on one hand, said the Union was dismayed with the administration not listening to their grievances. Benitez said the red ribbon
campaign is their external manifestation to the administration that there are some concerns which they believe the latter failed to address. Among the concerns of the Union are the “selective” allocation of the working incentives by the Program on Awards and Incentives for Service Excellence (PRAISE) committee, distribution of employee benefits based from the Collective Negotiation Agreement (CNA) with private companies, and addressing the Hong Kong “diploma mill” issue where the name of Tarlac State University (TSU) was linked. The administration called for an assembly at the gymnasium to discuss the matters with the Union and explained their side as well. Benitez, also a faculty member from the College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) and president of Confederation of
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Prexy: K-12 may favor TSU By Joan Robin T. Martinez University President Dr. Myrna Q. Mallari eyes the loss of students after graduations and K-12 onset as an advantage despite the anticipated decrease in university’s income. Mallari said this would help reduce the faculty-student ratio to 1:35 which later would result to the increase in the availability of facilities. “We would like to become a
The Office of Endowment and Scholarship confirms the increase in number of scholars in Tarlac State University during the second semester of academic year 2015-2016. According to Dr. Elsie Canlas, Endowment and Scholarship director, from 2,842 scholars during the first semester, the number of scholars during this term is now 3,308. “Kung sa university ay nag-increase tayo, actually, sa university scholarship program nag-increase [din] dahil dumami ‘yong mga academic scholars, lalo na yung mga college scholars. Maraming [may] magagandang average na pumasok sa university scholarship,” Canlas said. An approximate 50% increase in both college and university scholarship was noted. Canlas said there’s no limit on the number of grantees under these program as long as they maintain the required general weighted average, 1.0-1.45 for the university scholarship and 1.461.75 for the college scholarship. Aside from these programs, the filling of slots for the Congressional District Noel Villanueva Scholarship with 1,000 beneficiaries and the latest additional scholarship program from the Royal Institute of Singapore of six scholars also contributed to the increase. Meanwhile, Canlas said, effective next semester, those who
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Performing Arts takes 5 world titles The Tarlac State University Performing Arts (PA) brought home five championship trophies and two first runner-up trophies in the World Artistic Dance Federation, an invitational in Moscow, Russia on March 19 - 20. The group bagged the championship titles in World Cup Ethno Dance Competition (small and large teams) for dancing Tinikling
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premier university and the starting point is [to] improve facilities, and second, we need to reduce the number of students per class,” Mallari explained. Meanwhile, evening classes are also expected to be dissolved and all students will be accommodated in day classes. Cutting down evening classes, she furthered, would also mean
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