According to the documents, Marcos Sr. knew as early as October 1976 that Bongbong could no longer continue his residency at Oxford University after he 'passed in only one of the three subjects he took in the preliminary examination.'
MANILA -- In April of 1978, then-President Ferdinand Marcos said at the 25th commencement exercises of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines , then the Philippine College of Commerce, that his son Bongbong was "a senior at Oxford." Now, 43 years later, presidential candidate Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. and his camp continue to assert that the former senator graduated with a "degree" from the prestigious university.
Bongbong was not allowed by the Oxford University rule to carry on his studies after he "passed in only one of the three subjects he took in the preliminary examination." Bongbong took a second shot at the subjects he failed, but passed only in economics, effectively ending his residency at Oxford. In Marcos' PUP commencement speech in 1978, Bongbong was indeed preparing for his exams, but not as a senior for a bachelor's degree in Oxford. He was getting ready for a test to get a special diploma.
This is where inconsistency begins—in a press release for the event where Malacañang stated that Bongbong held a special diploma in social studies from Oxford University.
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