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Imee filed Senate Resolution 480 to conduct the inquiry.  She said:
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"A Senate investigation is in order, if the Commission on Higher Education cannot settle this controversy before classes resume in late August." 
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Marcos noted that there has been a growing number of complaints from concerned parents and students enrolling about this tuition-padding:
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"The inclusion of many miscellaneous fees for school facilities and services that would no longer be used is unnecessary and unconscionable."
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Complaints reaching Senator Marcos's office said that schools in the University Belt were still charging various miscellaneous fees for the use of classroom-based internet, electricity, laboratories, libraries, and medical and dental clinics.
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Marcos said it was unlikely that most students who are below 21 years old would avail of school facilities, since guidelines set in early June by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases have directed them to remain indoors during all community quarantine levels.  Imee Marcos said:
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"Schools should not be playing blind and profiting on what they would no longer provide. Parents and students should definitely be paying less."
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She said that learning from home through online classes and modular lessons should be less costly than the face-to-face education before the Covid-19 pandemic.
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<b>Source:</b>
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Imee seeks probe on "padded" tuition fees, Macon Ramos-Araneta, July 31, 2020 <a href="https://manilastandard.net/news/national/330176/imee-seeks-probe-on-padded-timee-seeks-probe-on-padded-tuition-feesuition-fees.html" class="news_link" target="_blank" title="Source">Manila Standard</a>
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Senator Imee Marcos called for a Senate investigation into "padded" tuition fees