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Thursday, February 24, 2005
7 CV schools fight to keep nursing alive
By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez
Sun.Star Staff Reporter
The Commission on Higher Education (Ched) 7 is warning nursing majors to check if their schools already complied with the requirements to operate.
Ched 7 Director Enrique Grecia yesterday said the seven schools in Central Visayas they ordered to cease offering the nursing program this school year were still not granted the authority.
According to Ched records, there are seven schools for nursing in Cebu City: University of San Carlos, University of Cebu-Banilad, Cebu Doctors’ University, Southwestern University, Cebu City Medical Center, University of the Visayas and Velez College.
Schools like the Cebu Institute of Technology (CIT), Salazar Institute of Technology, Cebu Technological School, Asian College of Technology, STI-Cebu and Baking Medical College started offering nursing courses last year.
Grecia, however, clarified that CIT was granted an authority to operate for four years while the appeals of the rest, including one from Negros Oriental, are still pending.
Ched advice
Although the schools are still appealing their cases with the Office of the President, to which the Ched reports, Grecia said they will advise students not to enroll in these schools “unless they (schools) get a favorable decision.”
He said that while other schools will accept transferees from these non-accredited schools, others will require them to enroll as first-year students.
“Ma-sayang lang (It will be a waste of their time),” Grecia pointed out.
Dr. Jucel Ann Jumao-as, who is in charge of processing the requirements of nursing schools, however, said representatives from the schools have been calling them up to inquire about the requirements.
“They are working to correct the deficiencies,” Jumao-as said.
Memo
Ched Chairman Rolando de la Rosa signed a memorandum in November ordering the administrators of 23 schools, including six in Cebu and one in Negros Oriental, to accept enrollees only until the second semester of school year 2004-2005, if they fail to meet the requirements.
Ched’s technical review committee found that most of these schools do not have the required number of full-time nurses as faculty members, while others do not have a base hospital that will serve as a training facility for their students.
However, Jumao-as is optimistic the schools will comply with the requirements, considering that the Ched memorandum is silent on the location of the base hospital.
If the schools cannot find one within Cebu, they could still access a 100-bed hospital, which is the requirement, in neighboring provinces.
(February 24, 2005 issue)
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