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Monday, July 03, 2006
Council wants exam 'leakage' probed
THE City Council will ask concerned agencies to push for an in-depth investigation on the alleged "leakage" in the board examinations for nurses simultaneously administered by the Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC) last June 11 and 12.
This was agreed upon by members of the Association of Deans of Philippine College of Nursing (ADPCN) in Cordillera and the Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) in Baguio who appeared before the City Council session last week.
The two nurses' association requested the City Council's support to ensure speedy action on the leakage allegation.
"We are confident that just like us, you abhor any form of dishonesty done by anybody else," the groups said in a letter.
According to the nurses, the alleged leakage may have been done nationwide even as Baguio examinees were the only ones "brave enough to come out despite and in spite of threats."
The leakage happened when the examinees noticed that reviewees from a particular review school, earlier identified as the R.A. Gapuz Review Center, used handwritten "emergency drill materials" provided to them just hours before the exams.
Upon seeing the materials, the examinees noticed that many of the questions in the emergency drill materials were similar to one set of the examination. Names and situations in the board examinations were exactly same, the examinees stated in their affidavit. This prompted 92 Baguio examinees to file their complaint.
The PNA also deplored the conclusive and "sweeping statement" published in a national daily that "there is no leakage" when no investigation has yet been conducted.
"Help us guard the integrity of our nursing profession," the nurses told the City Council.
The letters were also sent to the PRC asking for a thorough investigation on the controversy.
(July 3, 2006 issue)
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