Several stakeholders from the academe and government in northern Luzon on Friday expressed concern about proposed amendments to the 1987 Constitution that would allow foreigners to own public utilities and educational institutions.
During a Senate subcommittee hearing, Pangasinan State University-Bayambang Campus executive director Dr. Gudelia Samson expressed opposition to laws that would give complete ownership of any school in the country to a foreign entity."Opening Philippine schools to 100% foreign ownership does not and will not resolve the current education crisis, which is caused by decades of insufficient public funding for education… low salaries for teachers, perennial backlogs," she said.
Briones said policies strengthening and supporting local industries must also be implemented to ensure that they will be able to compete with foreign counterparts.Keep unchangedMeanwhile, the Department of Labor and Employment in the Cordillera Administrative Region recommended that the provision on foreign participation in public utilities remain unchanged.
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