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Sunday, February 19, 2006
324 cadets set to graduate March 25
A TOTAL of 324 cadets of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) Mandala Class of 2006 will graduate on March 25 from the premier military institution.
The class will distinguish itself as the biggest class ever to graduate from the 108 year-old-institution. It also boasts of having the most female members at 37. Some 179 will join the Philippine Army, 79 the Navy and 66 the Air Force.
PMA Bantay Laya Class of 1994 currently holds the record with 273 graduates. Pre-war classes of the Philippine Constabulary Academy, which is what PMA was called then, were rather small, with the PCA Class of 1909 having only four members.
Historically, the average entrant-to-graduate ratio between those who finished in four years and those who were originally appointed, is a low 31.48 percent. This means that the total attrition for four years is about 68 percent or an average of 17 percent.
Comparatively, United States service academies have ratios of 70 percent to 80 percent. Considering the high cost of training and education, the PMA Administration has seized a number of initiatives, embodied in the PMA Road Map 2015 or the Academy's 10-year strategic plan. All but one of the initiatives implemented in 2005 addressed the improvement the academic performance.
(February 19, 2006 issue)
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