00:00ChED will add additional funds for scholarship programs under the 2025 General Appropriations Act.
00:07Roy Lomota of the Philippine Information Agency, Negros Oriental, has news for the country.
00:15The Commission on Higher Education will add 2 billion pesos to this year's budget for scholarship programs.
00:24ChED Chairperson J. Prospero de Vera III thanked President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. for approving the 2025 General Appropriations Act
00:34where the agency received an additional 2.2 billion pesos budget.
00:39We got an additional augmentation, I think of about 2.2 billion.
00:43The budget we received is basically for scholarships.
00:48You know, ChED is helping a lot through tertiary education subsidy and help.
00:54And every time the number increases, the budget needs to increase because it's continuing.
01:00The education sector received the biggest fund in 2025, which is 1.6 trillion pesos.
01:08ChED received 33.3 trillion pesos fund for programs and other activities of the agency.
01:16This is a big support for the strengthening of tertiary education in the country.
01:21Meanwhile, De Vera led the opening of ChED in the Negros Island region located inside Negros Oriental State University.
01:31This will bring closer to the people, especially to the students, the services of the agency.
01:39From the Philippine Information Agency, Negros Oriental, Roy Lomotan, Balitang Pambansa.
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