Cadets should pay tuition in PMA

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Cadets should pay tuition in PMA
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Kampilan '03	Oct 17 2006, 08:22 PM Post #11
Unregistered	In my opinion, if there would be a tuition fee in PMA, we would have a drastic decline in producing AFP officers... There may be only a few well-off youngsters who would prefer entering the academy.. If they had the money, they would rather enroll in exclusive colleges and universities... Poor students who are determined to finish a degree even if entails a carreer in the military would really opt for PMA... Free education is really attractive in whatever angle you look at it.. They may be trained to be patriotic and loyal to the country in the course of the training... Although I agree with what the thread starter posted.. It is also a possiblity but we should not generalize... If and only if there would be a requirement for PMA cadets to pay tuition fees, we should strike a balance by focusing on ROTC in officer recruitment especially in state universities to give way for the not so well-off students who want a military career... Otherwise, with less academy cadets and less opportunities in ROTC, there would really be a decline in the officer requirements... Oh, i forgot the OCS. hehehe...
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BARBER 6	Oct 17 2006, 10:47 PM Post #12
Member Posts: 221 Group: Regulars Member #719 Joined: May 8, 2006	If we are to start tuition fees in PMA, then the whole concept of the Institution would be scrapped. Who would want to pay for Tuition and be subjected to rigorous Military Training? There will be a decline in the Military Discipline. Some Cadets (or should I say Students) would not take their studies seriously since they are paying anyways. Some might even Drop Out and Enroll again Next Semester. After graduation they can choose what unit they will be assigned since they paid for everything...
	"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." - Edmund Burke


kyle_katarno	Nov 3 2006, 07:05 PM Post #13
Cute Bah Ako???? Posts: 227 Group: Regulars Member #1,065 Joined: September 16, 2006	Frenzy....I don't think your FRIENDS idea is suceptible for the purging of corruption to future officers of ther AFP. Not all of them are driven to corruption. It's not EASY to be a PMA cadet ano! A person would not subject himself to a rigorous curriculum just to make a quick buck when he graduate from the academy. If the well to do are the only one who can affford to pay to get in academy, then it will just be just an elitist officer corps.
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kyle_katarno	Nov 3 2006, 07:06 PM Post #14
Cute Bah Ako???? Posts: 227 Group: Regulars Member #1,065 Joined: September 16, 2006	saver111 Aug 16 2006, 12:14 PM Once you pay your own tuition fee then you have the right to go where you wanted to go after graduation. Just like those taking up med school, engineering, nursing, IT etc. on private schools. Mostly going abroad or demands high pay to recover from the investment they made for schooling. You could no longer demand from its graduates to do the 8 years mandatory service to gov't. Better ask those activists in U.P. and other gov't schools to pay theirs for wasting the peoples money and taking the slot of those most in need of education and willing to serve the country. most of them became commies too, using the peoples money.
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Redj	Jun 25 2007, 09:52 AM Post #15
Trainee Posts: 92 Group: Regulars Member #2,575 Joined: June 3, 2007	I agree with the replies, you can probably have terrorist enroll and more important you can make PMA the breeding ground for mercenaries (legally supported by the AFP).



MSantor	Jul 1 2007, 05:00 AM Post #16
Posts: 28,659 Group: PDFF Mod Group Member #516 Joined: August 6, 2005	el_commandante Aug 16 2006, 01:38 PM In Israel and Australia, they have no military academy and yet their officers are very competent and professionals. El Commandante, Don't you even do any research???? Australia does have TWO MILITARY ACADEMIES- the Royal Military College at Duntroon, Australia, and the Australian Defense Force Academy (ADFA). http://www.defence.gov.au/adfa/ http://www.defence.gov.au/army/rmc/Main/Main-Page.htm Ayyy Buhayy... I bet you must be wrong about Israel as well- since any professional military- even one as well-respected as the ADF and the IDF, would have a military academy!
	"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." - Henry Ford "Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill "If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking"- Gen. George S. Patton


foxguerilla	Jul 2 2007, 05:06 PM Post #17
Recruit Posts: 10 Group: Recruits Member #2,668 Joined: June 27, 2007	I think that the PMA should remain tuition fee free. It is an advance payment for the deprivation that an officer must go through later. The mistakes and sins of those who did not live up to the Academy's ideals, I think, are still the exceptions.
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ctrlaltdel	Jul 3 2007, 09:54 AM Post #18
Member Posts: 399 Group: Regulars Member #151 Joined: October 3, 2004	UP just increased its tuition fees for incoming students several times over - and UP grads and alumni contribute to the Philippine economy and well-being far more than PMA alumni. Not one UP alumni committed corruption as gross as Gen. Garcia et. al did, nor deadly violence as Gringo et al did. So why not impose tuition fees at PMA? Stop making this institution a free ride for future officers intent on amassing wealth and personal gain. Let the cadets pay tuition, it need not be expensive like UP now, even 300 per unit would be fine.



BARBER 6	Oct 1 2008, 04:39 AM Post #19
Member Posts: 221 Group: Regulars Member #719 Joined: May 8, 2006	ctrlaltdel Jul 3 2007, 09:54 AM Not one UP alumni committed corruption as gross as Gen. Garcia et. al did, nor deadly violence as Gringo et al did. MARCOS! Everything rolled into one...that's like 100 Gen. Garcias and 100 Gringos.
	"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." - Edmund Burke


eagle1	Oct 1 2008, 03:02 PM Post #20
Member Posts: 166 Group: Regulars Member #446 Joined: April 22, 2005	ctrlaltdel Jul 3 2007, 09:54 AM UP just increased its tuition fees for incoming students several times over - and UP grads and alumni contribute to the Philippine economy and well-being far more than PMA alumni. highly disagree. i believe the political unrest and instability caused by up grads (the leftist, socialists kind) have bled and stymied our economy for decades. think about it.



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