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Thursday, March 02, 2006
West Negros College exam results still on hold
By Jay Dooma Balnig
THE Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC) yesterday failed to open their vault and release the West Negros College (WNC) nursing graduates' examination results even if it was earlier expected by the House of Representatives.
PRC Board of Nursing Chair Eufemia Octaviano, in an interview Wednesday said, the board is yet to come out with a resolution as to the effect of the opening of the vault where the examination results are being kept and subsequently, their release.
Octaviano asserted that the PRC Legal Division is on the process of verifying and preparing for the said resolution.
The Legal Division of PRC was also tasked to examine the examinees' papers and the results will be released anytime this week or next week.
The Board of Nursing convened Wednesday at around 5 p.m. at the PRC Office in Sampaloc, Manila after attending their two-day seminar in a hotel in Manila City.
It was also learned last Tuesday that the PRC would release the examination results, accompanied with the filing of criminal charges in the fiscal's office to examinees that used fraudulent papers and examination requirements.
The PRC and the Commission on Higher Education (Ched), during the budget deliberation at the House of Representatives the other month, agreed that the commission with release the examination results, but the latter has a free hand in filing criminal charges against those examinees who failed to meet the minimum requirements for the admission for nursing board exam last December.
It was also learned the other day at the office of Rep. Francisco Nepomuceno, chair on House Committee on Civil Service and Professional Regulatory Commission that the scheduled release of result as agreed by both PRC and Ched and the committee is not later than March 2.
Last January 23, 145 nursing students of WNC sued the PRC before the local court for withholding their board exam results.
The 145 petitioners filed a case of Mandamus against the PRC represented by its chairperson, Dr. Leonor Tripon-Rosero and the Board of Nursing represented by its chairperson, Dr. Eufemia Octaviano and members Remedios Fernandez, Letty Juan and Anesia Dionisio as respondents.
They sought the court's intervention to direct the respondents from issuing order or to perform specific functions or performance of duty.
The PRC cited "academic overloading" as reason for withholding the results. Some of the Nursing students were reportedly allowed to load up to 46 units in one given semester./
(March 2, 2006 issue)
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