MANILA, Sept. 12 -- President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Friday sought the expansion of the Commission on Higher Education's (CHED) Unified Student Financial Assistance System for Tertiary Education (UniFAST).

This, as Marcos led the awarding of scholarship grants to student beneficiaries of the CHED-UniFAST and unveiled the electronic Certification, Authentication, and Verification (e-CAV), a digital system designed to streamline scholarship documentation and verification.

"Our assistance to our students proves that the returns are immeasurable when a government invests in people. When we strengthen education, we also strengthen our workforce and we forge a better future for our economy, for our country," Marcos said in a keynote speec...