CHED (Commission on Higher Education) Memorandum Order No. 32 Series of 2010

Moratorium on the opening of all undergraduate and graduate programs in BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, NURSING, TEACHER EDUCATION, HOTEL AND RESTAURANT MANAGEMENT and INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION effective School Year 2011-2012.

Admin note:
Moratorium – suspension of an ongoing activity; A legally authorized postponement before some obligation must be discharged

CHED Memorandum Order No. 32 Series of 2010

More information can be read here: Moratorium on new nursing, teaching courses–CHEd

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.

The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) informed the PRC of the inversely proportional relationship in the numbers of those taking the National Medical Admission Test (NMAT), the entrance exam that is taken to be able to enter medical schools here in the Philippines, and the continuing slump of students vying for nursing schools.

There are also reports that many nursing grads are pursuing medicine because of difficulty in landing jobs as nurses.

Read related story: More Pinoys, including nursing graduates now taking up medicine

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:

Range 1 (with 1,000 and up takers): Far Eastern University-Manila (NCR) with 1,982 passers out of 2,656 takers or 74.62 percent passing rate; Centro Escolar University-Manila (NCR) with 720 out of 1,002 or 71.88%; Manila Doctors College (NCR) with 704 out of 1,011 or 69.63%;

Range 2 (with 100 to 999 takers), Saint Paul University-Iloilo (Region 6) with 100% passing rate; West Visayas State University-La Paz (Region 6) with 99.48%; Saint Louis University (CAR) with 99.04%;

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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.

“In the last Nursing Licensure Examination, November 2009, Cebu Doctors’ University is the only Cebu Nursing School who landed in the Top 20 of the National ranking by the Professional Regulations Commission,” Duja said in a statement. CDU placed 19th in the November 2009 exams.

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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.

The data coming from PRC-Educational Statistics Task Force show that these schools ranked less than 40.70% in the licensure examinations administered by the PRC last June and November 2009.

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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.

“We take cognizance for the performance of the graduates in nursing of the University of the Visayas, Banilad, Mandaue City for the year 2009. A review of the data given to us by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) revealed that truly your graduates’ performance in the 2009 Board Examination for Nurses is 45.72 percent which is above the National Passing Percentage of 40.70 percent,” Angeles said.

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CHED issues warning to 132 nursing schools
By Rainier Allan Ronda (The Philippine Star)

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) disclosed yesterday that the agency had warned 132 nursing schools whose graduates have consistently flunked the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) nursing licensure examinations for five years to either shape up or phase out their nursing programs.

CHED chairman Emmanuel Angeles said that they were closely monitoring the performance of the schools and the agency would close their nursing programs if they fail to improve their graduates’ average passing rate in the PRC licensure exams to at least above the national passing rate of 46.14 percent.

Angeles said CHED had covered 456 nursing schools operating in the country and evaluated the performance of their graduates in PRC nursing licensure exams from 2004 to 2008.

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152 nursing schools face closure for poor board performance

MANILA, Philippines – A total of 152 nursing schools face closure for registering poor passing percentages in the nursing licensure examinations over the past five years.

However, Emmanuel Angeles, Commission on Higher Education (CHED) chairman, said the 152 nursing schools will be given another chance in next year’s nursing examinations.

“It’s a warning for them,” he said.

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2 student groups slam CHED for failure to close down 177 poor quality nursing schools
By Rainier Allan Ronda (The Philippine Star)

MANILA, Philippines – The National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) and the College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) slammed the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) for its seeming protection of the 177 erring nursing schools it is set to close down for poor performance in nursing licensure exams for the past five years.

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The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) will shut down some 177 nursing schools because of the constant failure of the graduates that they produce to pass the Professional Regulation Commission’s (PRC) nursing licensure examinations (NLE).

Emmanuel Angeles, chairman of the CHED said that it has been found out that there are 177 nursing schools that do not have even one graduate pass the NLE for the last five years.

Data is currently being verified by the CHED before they start issuing orders to the schools to eliminate their nursing programs.