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A school enjoys academic freedom – a guarantee that enjoys protection from the Constitution no less. Section 5(2) Article XIV of the Constitution guarantees all institutions of higher learning academic freedom.^[1]

The institutional academic freedom includes the right of the school or college to decide and adopt its aims and objectives, and to determine how these objections can best be attained, free from outside coercion or interference, save possibly when the overriding public welfare calls for some restraint. The essential freedoms subsumed in the term "academic freedom" encompass the freedom of the school or college to determine for itself: (1) who may teach; (2) who may be taught; (3) how lessons shall be taught; and (4) who may be admitted to study.^[2]

References

1. ↑ Mercado vs. AMA Computer College-Paranaque City, Inc., G.R. No. 183572, 13 April 2010
2. ↑ Mercado vs. AMA Computer College-Paranaque City, Inc., G.R. No. 183572, 13 April 2010