CITY of San Fernando vice mayoralty candidate Councilor Angie Hizon said that new course offerings at the City College of San Fernando will greatly improve its enrollment and provide students with a wider range of choices.
Hizon said that the City College of San Fernando is the eighth city college in Central Luzon region and the school has helped increase the number of college graduates through its scholarship programs.
Now on its tenth year, the City College of San Fernando continues to be the only institution in the city that provides education at a reasonable cost to the city’s poorest students.
In 2017, the college recorded a total of 471 students enrolled in the courses B.S. in Information Technology, B.S. in Accounting Technology, B.S. in Business Administration major in Financial Management and Marketing Management, Bachelor in Elementary Education, and Bachelor of Secondary Education major in English, Math and Biological Science.
Hizon said that identifying new course offerings will greatly diversify the college. She added that new course offerings should reflect the needs of the local community as well as those of the business sector.
“There should be courses that respond to the needs of the local industries. The City of San Fernando has a growing commercial and industrial sector. The manpower needed by these industries should be addressed by courses offered at the City College of San Fernando,” Hizon said.
Hizon said that she will push for and support measures for the establishment of institutionalized scholarships for students of the city. She added that institutionalized scholarships will enable readily available slots for educational scholarships for the poor and insulate the program from being used in local politics.
“We need more scholarship grants. The number of students just keeps on getting bigger each year. The availability of such grants will enable more students to access opportunities for education,” Hizon said. (Chris Navarro)