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| Senator Ralph Recto/photo from Manila Bulletin |
Senator Ralph Recto said most people are probably unaware
that the government spends six times more for every Philippine Military Academy
(PMA) cadet compared to scholars of the University of the Philippines (UP).
“It is six times more expensive to produce one commissioned
officer out of The Long Gray Line in Baguio than to produce one scientist out
of the picket lines of Diliman,” Recto said in a statement, according to
Politiko’s report
“In fact, on a per student subsidy, they occupy the
top tier in the country’s million-plus public college student population,” he
added
According to Recto, the estimated cost of producing one PMA
graduate is at P2.982 million versus the P507,000 spent by government to
produce a UP graduate of a four-year course.
“PMA cadets are ‘the people’s investments’, to whom the
defense of the Republic will later be entrusted.” He said
“Bawat isa sa kanila ay mahalaga. If they will have to drop
out, then it must be on their own steam, and not on a stretcher out of a
hospital or morgue,” Recto added referring to the recent death of PMA
cadet
Source: Politiko
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