Commission on Higher Education

Malate 09:24 AM, Jan 23, 2024

January 23, 2024

Dear Jan Aliza Labas,

Greetings!

Thank you for your request dated Jan 22, 2024, at 05:43:56 PM, under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.

Your request

You asked for educational assistance.

Response to your request

You may want to review the Tertiary Education Subsidy (TES) program as it is a grant-in-aid program to support Filipino students enrolled in their first undergraduate-post-secondary program in SUCs, LUCs, and Private HEIs.  For more information regarding the TES, please refer to the following link which will lead you to the UniFAST website’s page dedicated to the TES: https://unifast.gov.ph/tes.html.

Please also note that the priority beneficiaries for this program are as follows:
a.) Continuing ESGP-PA scholars in the SUCs effective AY 2018-2019;
b.) Students who are part of households included in the Listahanan 2.0, ranked according to the estimated per capita household income; and
c.) Students not part of the Listahanan 2.0, ranked according to estimated per capita household income based on submitted documentation of proof of income to be determined by the UniFAST Board

For questions and clarifications, you may contact the concerned Office through the details given below:
0998 985 2955 and 0928 551 1317
unifastsecretariat@ched.gov.ph and askunifast@ched.gov.ph.

Your right to request a review:

If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing to chairperson@ched.gov.ph. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request.

If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011).

Thank you.

Respectfully,
FOI Officer