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01/30/08, 09:45 PM
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President addresses tomorrow the 1st Biennial Education Congress
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2008 | EDUCATION
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will address tomorrow the opening of the First Biennial Education Congress that she earlier ordered the Presidential Task Force on Education (PTFE) to convene immediately.
The summit – which will be held from Jan. 31 to Feb. 1 at the Manila Hotel’s Tent City -- will be the first of two education summits to be held this year “to assess, update, strengthen and upgrade the quality of the entire educational system and its components towards national development and global competitiveness.”
With the theme, “Putting Our Act Together, Moving Forward As One,” the education summit shall also “provide the rare opportunity of bringing together various education stakeholders from all over the country who would be in the best position to share their best practices, success stories and unique experiences in implementing some sustainable development measures in education.”
The FBEC shall be attended by some 400 education stakeholders, and shall include representatives from the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), the Department of Education (DepEd), the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), COCOPEA and Philippine Association of State Universities and Colleges (PASUC), selected mayors, and public elementary and high school teachers.
President Arroyo had already met with heads of private and state universities and colleges in Northern Luzon over the year-end at The Mansion, the official Presidential summer residence in Baguio City. There, the President ordered the holding of the first of a series of education summits to immediately solve the problems besetting the country’s educational system.
Two days later on Jan. 2, 2008, the President signed Executive Order No. 705 “subjecting only non-accredited private schools for institutional quality assurance, monitoring and evaluation” – which was one of the recommendations of the Northern Luzon group of educators during their meeting with the President on Dec. 31, 2007.
Noting the duplication of functions of the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU) and the CHED-established Institutional Quality Assurance Monitoring and Evaluation (IQUAME), EO 705 mandated the CHED to subject only private schools not accredited by the PAASCU to the CHED’s IQUAME.
EO 705 also provided that colleges and universities accredited by PAASCU “shall be automatically recognized as accredited by IQUAME”; and that the CHED’s IQUAME shall be “a tool not only for regulation but also for incentives for accredited colleges and universities.”
Tomorrow’s summit shall have Presidential Assistant for Education Mona Valisno giving an overview of the education congress; while PTFE acting chairman Romulo Neri, who is also CHED chairman, shall discuss the PTFE’s Recommendations for Reforms.
The President shall be met at the venue by Neri, DepEd Secretary Jesli Lapus, Valisno, TESDA Director-General Augusto Syjuco, PTFE member Emmanuel Angeles; the Manila Hotel’s chair Don Emilio Yap and president Jose Lina.
President addresses tomorrow the 1st Biennial Education Congress
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2008 | EDUCATION
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will address tomorrow the opening of the First Biennial Education Congress that she earlier ordered the Presidential Task Force on Education (PTFE) to convene immediately.
The summit – which will be held from Jan. 31 to Feb. 1 at the Manila Hotel’s Tent City -- will be the first of two education summits to be held this year “to assess, update, strengthen and upgrade the quality of the entire educational system and its components towards national development and global competitiveness.”
With the theme, “Putting Our Act Together, Moving Forward As One,” the education summit shall also “provide the rare opportunity of bringing together various education stakeholders from all over the country who would be in the best position to share their best practices, success stories and unique experiences in implementing some sustainable development measures in education.”
The FBEC shall be attended by some 400 education stakeholders, and shall include representatives from the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), the Department of Education (DepEd), the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), COCOPEA and Philippine Association of State Universities and Colleges (PASUC), selected mayors, and public elementary and high school teachers.
President Arroyo had already met with heads of private and state universities and colleges in Northern Luzon over the year-end at The Mansion, the official Presidential summer residence in Baguio City. There, the President ordered the holding of the first of a series of education summits to immediately solve the problems besetting the country’s educational system.
Two days later on Jan. 2, 2008, the President signed Executive Order No. 705 “subjecting only non-accredited private schools for institutional quality assurance, monitoring and evaluation” – which was one of the recommendations of the Northern Luzon group of educators during their meeting with the President on Dec. 31, 2007.
Noting the duplication of functions of the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU) and the CHED-established Institutional Quality Assurance Monitoring and Evaluation (IQUAME), EO 705 mandated the CHED to subject only private schools not accredited by the PAASCU to the CHED’s IQUAME.
EO 705 also provided that colleges and universities accredited by PAASCU “shall be automatically recognized as accredited by IQUAME”; and that the CHED’s IQUAME shall be “a tool not only for regulation but also for incentives for accredited colleges and universities.”
Tomorrow’s summit shall have Presidential Assistant for Education Mona Valisno giving an overview of the education congress; while PTFE acting chairman Romulo Neri, who is also CHED chairman, shall discuss the PTFE’s Recommendations for Reforms.
The President shall be met at the venue by Neri, DepEd Secretary Jesli Lapus, Valisno, TESDA Director-General Augusto Syjuco, PTFE member Emmanuel Angeles; the Manila Hotel’s chair Don Emilio Yap and president Jose Lina.