In Fiery Protest, PUP Students Denounce 2,000% Tuition Hike

In Fiery Protest, PUP Students Denounce 2,000% Tuition Hike

MANILA — Hundreds of students at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines in Sta. Mesa walked out of their classes today to denounce a proposal to increase the school’s tuition by as much as 2,000 percent.

The students, nearly a thousand of them, threw armchairs, tables and papers down to the ground floor and set these on fire. Many of them hanged streamers from the state university’s main building denouncing the proposal.

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