PROBINSYANO Ako Party-list Rep. Rudys Caesar Fariñas I filed a measure that aims to strengthen the Commission on Higher Education.

House Bill 7455 or the proposed Amended Higher Education Act seeks to protect academic freedom, design programs to support national, regional, or local development plans and exemplify the dignity and beauty of intellectual and scholarly life.

The measure also mandates the CHED to support, enhance and strengthen the Mindanao State University System and all other state and local universities and colleges in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

Under the bill, CHED will formulate and implement policies governing the delivery of education services by public and private Higher Education Institutions except those under the jurisdiction of the BARMM.

Fariñas said that through the bill, he hopes to protect, foster and promote the rights of all citizens to quality education.