AFTER focusing on the board exam results of nurses in the Cordillera Administrative Region, the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) will scrutinize examinations for Certified Public Accountant and licensure for teachers to avoid professional mismatches.
PRC Regional Director Teofilo Sison said inter-agency coordination between their agency and the Commission on Higher Education (Ched) will also delve on the low passing rate of graduates of these courses in the region as compared to the national passing rate.
Sison said in an exclusive Sun.Star Baguio interview that what they have noticed in the number of board exam takers in nursing might be similar to the education and accountancy examinations.
Among the factors cited by Sison included student’s career choice problems, which needed career counseling, and poor curricula in some higher education institutions.
“We will look into this from cradle to grave as students should be guided in the course they take as they might be disappointed in the future if they don’t pass board exams for many times,” Sison said.
Moreover, quality of instruction in schools will also be checked by Ched.
“We will conduct a historical analysis of performances of universities and colleges in the various board exams not only in nursing and submit them to Ched, where they will enforce warnings on poor performing schools to notch higher than the national average,” he added.
Sison stressed that the performance of schools doesn’t measure up to its top 10 placers but on the historical passing rate of all its graduates.
In other professions in the region, Criminology has the highest passing rate with exam takers in the region registered 53.53 percent in the April 2009 criminologist board exams as compared to the national passing rate of 31.59 percent.
Other professional exams like in Pharmacy are also doing well, according to Sison.
“We will look into this to avoid overburdening the parents who have been spending so much for their children to go to the best universities and pay their ever increasing tuition fees only ending up disappointed their children don’t become professionals after all,” Sison said.
He added that choosing a career lies in the students themselves, who shouldn’t be fooled by current trends of enrolling in popular courses or being able to go abroad, as employment opportunities always change yearly. (JM Agreda)