igher Education (CHED) enacted an order which prohibited tuition fee increase by private colleges and universities for the next school year 2001-2002. The Order of the CHED was based on the financial difficulty being experienced by many parents in sending their children to private schools. A group of private colleges questioned the order with respect to tuition fee, or its increases for that matter. CHED maintains that with the Higher Education Act of 1995 all functions and powers previously exercised by the DECS for higher education had been transferred to it.The research problem is very clearly stated, it is to find out whether the order of prohibiting the increase of tuition was valid and whether the CHED did have the power as previously exercised by the DECS. IV.Research ProceduresUpon the receiving the situation for the problem, the author immediately read the problem. Upon reading the problem, the author carefully analyzed the problem and started to take down keywords which could help the author in his search. Also, the author tried to identify what the main issues are, to be able to determine the direction of where the research is going. After carefully analyzing the problem, the author wrote down all the possible keywords that can be used in the search. The author first visited the library of De La Salle University. Upon entering the library the author directly went to the second floor and search the Lex Libris, and the Phil. Juris. The author entered the keywords in the Lex law to be able to determine what powers the CHED had and this is how the author knew of RA 7722 which is known as the Higher Education Act. The author immediately followed his search on the Jurisprudence and hence found some cases that are related to the topic.Wanting for more information the author followed up his search in the internet. The author search from www.googles.com and was successful in finding many secondary resources regarding the hi...
