Group 1 - Provisions (draft).docx

PROVISIONS ARTICLE XIV (1987 PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION) EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, ARTS, CULTURE AND SPORTS

EDUCATION SECTION 1. The State shall protect and promote the right of all citizens to quality education at all levels and shall take appropriate steps to make such education accessible to all. ISSUES: CLOSURE and EXECUTIVE CLASS It is said that life is a continuing education. In order to succeed in life, one should learn all the aspects of survival. Education gives us the learnings that we individuals need for us to continue to grow. Ideally, most students aim for employment after they graduate on the tertiary level. However, a college diploma is no guarantee that a person will be successful at all - that it will translate into a better job and a higher earning. This being said doesn't mean that the lack of it connotes that one can never succeed. But, the very point is, whatever a man wishes for, to continue learning or not, is his own choice. Education is not just a privilege but a right. The President Ramon Magsaysay State University (PRMSU) law students, just like everyone else, must enjoy this right. As law students, it is a given that everyone has already their baccalaureate degrees, but we are still eager to continue learning. Thus, it is just correct that we be given the chance because as what the law states, education must be accessible to all. As far as may be possible, it should provide to those who are capable of it, the opportunity to pursue higher studies so that people may play a more active role as responsible citizens of the country. Executive classes or classes done during weekends are the most accessible time for us PRMSU law students since most of us are working during weekdays. If we are to push through with classes after office hours, we may not be able to maximize the time since most of us are working from different towns, some are even from nearby provinces, that although nearby, will took hours just to be in school. SECTION 2. The State shall: 1) Establish, maintain, and support a complete, adequate, and integrated system of education relevant to the needs of the people and society. ISSUES: CLOSURE and EXECUTIVE CLASS It is explicitly directed by the Constitution that the system to be established, maintained and supported should be "relevant to the needs of the people and society." Thus, it stresses the main objective of education - to equip Filipinos with the skills and knowledge our country needs to develop further. Education gives us a way to achieve our fullest potentials as human beings. PRMSU has given chance to people who seek to learn and eventually help in their own communities. This is the nearest and most affordable, thus most convenient place for the Zambaleños and people who are working within or near Zambales. Unfortunately, if the closure order would proceed, most if not all of the PRMSU law students may not be able to continue finishing the course. Factors are: distance of the current to work to a prospective law school (which is probably far because the nearest would be in Pampanga); few law schools who accepts transferees; and higher tuition fees.

Classes held during weekends were done in good faith, since Saturday and Sunday are the days that all PRMSU students can attend to. To note, most of the students are working. To give up one's work is to no avail by the very fact that each is self-supporting. Working during weekdays is our way not only to support our studies but also our own families. Classes to be held after office hours is also of no avail since many of us need to travel hours just to get to school right after work. There being said, weekends are the most convenient days for all of us, without compromising the correct number of hours that should be rendered for each subject. SECTION 3. Every citizen has a right to select a profession or course of study, subject to fair, reasonable, and equitable admission and academic requirements.

ISSUES: CLOSURE and EXECUTIVE CLASS We choose to study law aside from being a childhood dream is to have an advancement in the field work. We believe that if one is equipped with legal knowledge, we may be able to tell what is legally right to morally right. After which we may apply it in the performance of our functions as Government employees to many and as Private employees to some. It is indeed that we, are in dire need of this study of law especially most of the law students are in the Government service such as judiciary staff, Police officers, State College employee, LGU employees and CPA. Thus, the comprehension of the law is necessary by the employees in the Government. If the closure shall pursue we may never enrich ourselves through the study of law. Since the nearest Law School is Angeles University and a more expensive than Pres. Ramon Magsaysay State University-College of Law (PRMSU-COL). Tarlac State University and Bulacan State University are a prospect but are not doable because of the difference in the tuition fee and the distance from place of work going to said schools. In Sec. 1 of Art. XIV of 1987 Philippine Constitution states that: “The State shall protect and promote the right of all citizens to quality education at all levels and shall take appropriate steps to make such education ACCESSIBLE to all.” We are taking advantage of the accessibility of COL offered by PRMSU such as 1. Distance; 2. Tuition fee; 3. Convenience in terms of class schedule considering students are full time Government employees. Should the closure continue study of Law will not be accessible to us ordinary citizen who wish to study law. Study of law will now be accessible to few. Executive class was primarily offered to cater the full time government employees in harmony with Sec. 1 of Art. XIV of the Philippine Constitution, to those who wants to study law or pursue it as career or use it as advancement in the field of work. It is anyway that the study of law shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally ACCESSIBLE to all on the basis of merit as provided in Art. 26 (1) of Universal Declaration of Human Rights.