MANDAUE City opposition councilor Victor Biaño is enrolled in Dr. Paulus Cañete’s Mandaue city college (MCC), the only student in Masters in Public Management class, one of the findings revealed by the inventory committee who called for a press conference yesterday.
Dr. Josefino Ronquillo of the Commission on Higher Education (Ched) and the head of the “Inventory committee” also revealed that at a short span of two years, after it was established, the “old MCC” has produced graduates in doctorate, masters and bachelors degrees. The school even established an extension class in Hilongos town Leyte.
This he said is in violation of Ched Memorandum Order (CMO), but stopped short of recommending an investigation as it is the school’s board of trustees according to him who decide what to do based on the inventory committee’s findings.
And most of their graduates in the masters and doctorate programs said Ronquillo are employees and staff of the school, including Biaño who earned high grades.
Support
Biaño, the council’s majority floorleader and one of the opposition councilors who strongly supported the old MCC.
Ronquillo said there is nothing irregular in having one-on-one student-teacher ratio, referring to Biaño who took 15 units load in the second semester 2007-2008 and 12 units load last summer at the old MCC.
His professors Dr. Cañete gave Biaño 1.2 final grade, Dr. Katrina Cortes gave him 1.3 grade; Dr. Elmer Ripalda gave him 1.2 grade and Dr. Vic Duran gave him 1.1 grade.
Education
Biaño told reporters that he initially took his masters studies in USJR. To satisfy his curiosity and support to MCC he continued his studies in the said school.
But the “new MCC” caretaker Dr Susana Cabahug, who is allied with mayor Jonas Cortes, cited Section 3 of CMO 36 which provided “level lll accreditation of
undergraduate programs, including arts and sciences, shall be a major consideration in granting permits to open new graduate programs…”
She said a school must be five years in continuous operation before earning level l, another five years to earn level ll and another five years to get level lll accreditation.
Memorandum
She also cited another Ched memorandum violated by the old MCC when it opened extension classes in Hilongos Leyte.
CMO 26, policies and guidelines for extension classes stated in No. 3.1, “higher edication institutions with programs and accredited level lll by any of the recognized accrediting bodies in the Philippines… may offer extension classes.”
Ronquillo, Cabahug and some members of the inventory committee called for a press conference yesterday to reveal the committee findings on the college, which was padlocked by mayor Jonas Cortes last summer vacation. (OCP)
