Monday, August 04, 2008 Put complaint under oath, school told
THE Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) has requested the Philippine Paramedical and Technical School-Cebu Inc. (PPTS) to put their complaint under oath against Verallo College of Nursing for alleged illegal and unethical practices.
PRC Cebu Officer-in-Charge Gina T. Emperado said in a letter to Edith Rose Ragay Santos, PPTS vice president for academic affairs, that their office needs the complaint under oath before they can investigate Verallo.
Complaint
This is pursuant to Section 7, paragraph (w) of Republic Act 8981 (PRC Modernization Act of 2000), Emperado said.
Santos had informed PRC that they lodged the same complaint before Director Enrique P. Grecia of the Commission on Higher Education (Ched) for the interest of public safety, justice and fairness.
In 1 year
In her letter-complaint to Ched dated May 15, 2008, Santos said that sometime in July or August 2007, 12 of their pioneering nursing batch at their extension campus in East Visayan Academy transferred to Verallo because they were told that they could finish a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) in one year.
She said that last January, one of their reserved students from California withdrew his enrollment because he was promised a BSN degree in one year. Last April, some PPTS students left because they were promised BSN degrees if they would transfer, even if they didn’t have their transcripts, she said.
The students were charged P165,000 for the one-year BSN program, she said.
Santos said she was surprised at how a new school like Verallo College of Nursing can offer a short-term BSN course, in violation of Ched regulations.
Academic records
No official from the Verallo College of Nursing could be located for comment.
“I am also wondering how the students’ academic records were evaluated without getting their transcripts from us and how they were accepted without verifying from us their academic standing. We have not been requested to release any transfer credentials of said students,” read Santos’ letter to Ched.
Santos said she was once invited by one of Verallo’s part-time instructors, a certain Kenneth Pasayan, to teach part-time in Cebu City, not at their main campus in Bogo City.
Santos said the holding of classes in Cebu City violates Ched policies.
“These activities will again put a bad light to our already scandal-ridden profession and the only way to stop its further prostitution and degradation is to bring these complaints into the open,” Santos’ letter-complaint further reads. (EOB)
