Posts Tagged ‘CHED’

Pinoy nursing grads go for Medicine

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) has reported that there is an increase in the number of Pinoys entering medical schools. This is apparently due to the decline in the demand for nurses overseas. Read more…

MDC is top nursing college -philstar.com

MDC is top nursing college
(The Philippine Star)

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) announced recently the top-performing schools offering the Bachelor of Science in Nursing programs in the country for 2009. These schools rated higher than 40.70% national passing average set by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) and the school’s number of exam takers in the 2009 June and November results of the Nursing Licensure Examinations. Among nursing colleges, MDC topped the list with a rating of 69.63%. MDC ranks 3rd among nursing colleges and universities. The top three schools for each range are: Read more…

CDU asserts it still is top nursing school -philstar.com

CDU asserts it still is top nursing school
By Marjun A. Baguio/JMO (The Freeman)

CEBU, Philippines – The Cebu Doctors’ University yesterday asserted that it has maintained its standards following a report that it has failed to live up to its reputation as one of Cebu’s top performing nursing institutions.

Dominic Duja, Coordinator of Student Affairs, Publications and Public Relations of CDU said the university has always lived up to the high standards it has set for itself, as manifested by its overall placement as top two in the nursing licensure examinations from 2004 to 2008 with a 91.89 percent passing percentage. Read more…

PRC sounds alert on low performing nursing schools -philstar.com

PRC sounds alert on low performing nursing schools
By Rainier Allan Ronda (The Philippine Star)

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) said that it has been alerted by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) of some 253 “low performing” nursing schools in the country based on their graduates’ performance in the PRC nursing licensure examinations for 2009.

Emmanuel Angeles, CHED chairman, said that they have noted the 2009 nursing licensure exam results and will incorporate this into the data they are gathering on PRC licensure exam results of previous years as they pursue an effort to identify nursing schools that has to phase out their nursing programs due to poor quality.

The 253 “low-performing” nursing schools were adjudged as such from their graduates’ passing percentage in the 2009 licensure exams wherein it should register above the national passing average rate of 40.70 percent. Read more…

NURSING PROGRAM UP TO PAR: CHED apologizes to UV for wrong announcement -philstar.com

NURSING PROGRAM UP TO PAR: CHED apologizes to UV for wrong announcement
By Jessica Ann R. Pareja (The Freeman)

CEBU, Philippines – The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) admitted yesterday that it mistakenly included the University of the Visayas (UV) in the list of institutions with nursing programs recommended for closure.

CHED Chairman Emmanuel Angeles sent a letter through facsimile to UV Executive Vice-President and VP for Finance Jose R. Gullas correcting the information earlier published that UV was one of the four schools in Cebu advised to scrap its nursing program for failure to surpass the national passing percentage of 40.70 percent.

Angeles already apologized to Gullas over the phone last week for the mistake. Read more…