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The Bacolod City Government is presently looking into the possibility of
converting the Bacolod City College to a university for it to be able to
accommodate more qualified and deserving students, Mayor Evelio
Leonardia announced today.
Leonardia said that the conversion of the BCC to a
university is one of the major considerations that the city government
aims to accomplish in the next three years as he and the city officials
believe in the potential of the graduates that BCC has produced
throughout the years.
The mayor also noted the steady increase in the number
of new enrollees at BCC every year which he said could be attributed to
the prevailing financial difficulties where families opted to avail of
the cheap but quality education offered by BCC.
He also stressed that since the college was founded in
1997 during his first term as city mayor, the tuition fee remained
unchanged at P30 per unit until now. Leonardia explained that the city
government subsidizes the rest of the school’s operating expenses
because the city officials believe that cheap but good education and
training is the only “capital” that the government can provide students
from poor families so that they, too, can have better chances for a good
future.
The mayor said that to be able to continue providing
quality and affordable education to students, the city government has
installed various facilities for students’ use. These facilities
included the 60-computer laboratory at the Taculing campus and
construction of an eight-classroom building at the Fortune Towne
extension campus. |