Press Release 18 August 2020

CHED calls out on remaining private and universities with no TES billing submissions

The Commission on Higher (CHED) and the Unified Student Financial Assistance System for Tertiary Education (UniFAST) urge the remaining private higher education institutions (HEIs) that have not done their Tertiary Education Subsidy (TES) billing submissions at the TES Management System (TMS) Portal to immediately comply with the requirements of the Private Education Assistance Committee (PEAC), an organization that processes and endorses TES billing claims of private HEIs to CHED and UniFAST for payment, resulting in the delay of disbursements of TES stipends for Academic Year 2019-2020.

On June 9, 2020, CHED released a list of 264 private higher education institutions (HEIs) with no billing submissions to PEAC thus affecting more than 6,000 TES grantees waiting for their educational government subsidy.

To date, the number is down to around 46 private HEIs out of more than a thousand participating private schools to implement the TES Program. According to PEAC, ten of these schools are working on their billing documents while 36 have been contacted but they were not able to get any reply or reason why they have not yet been able to do their submissions.

“The TES funds cannot be given to the qualified student-grantees if their respective private HEIs do not have the necessary submissions and they have been waiting on this financial assistance especially now that we are starting the new academic year,” said ​ CHED and UniFAST Board Chairman J. Prospero E. De Vera III.

The CHED regional offices were able to download the TES grants to compliant private HEIs even during the community quarantine nationwide but some HEIs have expressed their difficulties in complying due to restrictions and disruptions in their normal work operations.

“The Commission is seriously concerned with the non-compliance of these HEIs. They signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with CHED to ensure that their students could be assisted by the government through RA 10931. We are now reviewing possible violations of this MoA and these HEIs may be delisted from inclusion in the programs under RA 10931,” De Vera added.

The TES is a grant-in-aid program of the government to support the cost of tertiary education of Filipino students who are enrolled in public and private HEIs. Students eligible for TES in private HEIs can receive PhP 60,000.00 per academic year if they belong to the Listahanan 2.0 of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) or they reside and study in a city or municipality where there is no existing state university or .

J. PROSPERO E. DE VERA III, DPA Chairman Commission on Higher Education and UniFAST Board

LIST OF NO BILLING STATEMENT SUBMISSION Source: PEAC National Secretariat (as of August 12, 2020) No. Region Private Higher Education Institution 1 Region I La Finn's Scholastica 2 Region III AMA Computer College-Angeles City 3 Region III Aurora Polytechnic College 4 Region IV Unciano Colleges 5 Region V AMA Computer College-Naga City 6 Region V Catanduanes Colleges 7 Region V Fatima School of Science and Technology 8 Region V R.G. De Castro Colleges 9 Region VII Mary's Children Formation College 10 Region VII Saint Paul College Foundation, INC. 11 Region XII ACLC College- City 12 Region XII Central Mindanao Colleges 13 Region XII Lebak Family Doctors' School of Midwifery 14 Region XII Marbel Institute of Technical College 15 NCR AMA Computer College-Las Piñas 16 NCR Asia Harvesters College and Seminary

17 NCR Bestlink College of the Philippines 18 NCR Centro Escolar Las Piñas, Inc. 19 NCR Christ the King College of Science and Technology 20 NCR Datamex College of Saint Adeline-Fairview 21 NCR Datamex College of Saint Adeline-Valenzuela 22 NCR Febias College of Bible 23 NCR Global Reciprocal Colleges 24 NCR Immaculate Heart of Mary College-Parañaque 25 NCR Informatics College- 26 NCR Interface Computer College-Manila 27 NCR Jesus Reigns Christian College Foundation 28 NCR Manila Business College Foundation 29 NCR Manila Central University 30 NCR NAMEI Polytechnic Institute

LIST OF NO BILLING STATEMENT SUBMISSION Source: PEAC National Secretariat (as of August 12, 2020)

No. Region Private Higher Education Institution 31 NCR New England College 32 NCR 33 NCR 34 NCR Catholic College 35 NCR Perpetual Help College of Manila 36 NCR Philippine Cultural College 37 NCR PMI Colleges-Manila 38 NCR PNTC Colleges-Manila 39 NCR San Juan de Dios Educational Foundation 40 NCR San Sebastian College-Recoletos 41 NCR Southville International School and Colleges 42 NCR St. Bernadette College of Alabang, Inc. 43 NCR STI College-Recto 44 NCR Wesleyan College of Manila 45 NCR West Bay College 46 CAR AMA Computer College-Baguio

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