The University of the Philippines recently moved to revise the General Education progran of the university.

The move is said to update the UP curricullum to that of the changing times. The asaid proposal led to myriad of issues and debates whether the Revitalized General Education Program will help develop the university's shrinking status as the Philippines' premiere university.

The RGEP aims to give flexibility and freedom on what courses a UP student should take as a basic academic foundation of their college life.

Under the RGEP, instead of a fixed set of subjects, students can take any courses as along as they choose 15 units each of Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences,and Mathematics.

Aside from that, the University will launch a summer bridge program to fill the lack of basic skills of students. UPCAT passers who did not reach the cutooff grade in English and Math parts of the UPCAT will take the summer bridge program.

RGEP critics, however, argue that the program will not address the lack of basic skills of students. They said that important subjects that are vital to a students' development might be dissolved.

Since the RGEP is patterned like the free market, subjects are like produce and the students are shoppers. Subjects that are boring,tedious or taught by so-called "terror" professors might be ignored and eventually dissolved despite its importance.