Nursing schools in the Philippines with poor passing percentage rates over the past licensure examinations to shape up or face closure in three years.
CHEd Executive Director Julito Vitriolo said on Tuesday that “more than 100 nursing schools” around the country would be closed by 2013 if their average board exam passing rate for the next three years remained below 30 percent, the minimum set by CHEd Memorandum Order (CMO) No. 14 Series of 2009.
“Starting this school year, we will be monitoring them and if their passing rate remains below 30 percent by 2013, then their nursing program will be phased out,” Vitriolo said in an interview.
Nursing students in the Philippines. Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/legin/
“We will implement the closure by 2013, based on CMO 14. We are already monitoring 16 government schools that offer nursing but are not performing well. The private schools will follow,” he added.
CHEd on Monday said around 55 percent of nursing schools in the country—253 out of 464 nursing schools—had a passing grade that fell short of the 40.70 percent national passing average.
This figure was based on the licensure examinations the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) supervised in June and November 2009. “In NCR alone, 47 nursing schools were identified to be among the low-performing nursing schools,” the commission said in a statement. It directed interested parties to visit the PRC website (www.prc.gov.ph) for “a more complete list of low-performing nursing schools per region.”
Vitriolo said that out of the 253 “low-performing” nursing schools, “more than 100″ got a passing grade of below 30 percent.
CHEd chair Emmanuel Angeles said they would continue to monitor and “evaluate the performance of nursing schools nationwide and to ensure the quality of nursing education in the country.”
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May 18, 2011 at 1:27 pm
Thats a great job have done by Vitriolo . In above statement said that 100 nursing schools” around the country would be closed by 2013.Its a very great idea. It will short the scarcity of nurses in the country. This would be good for country residents too. Thanks for the nice information.
May 25, 2011 at 5:00 pm
I like the step taken by the Executive Director Julito Vitriolo…Its true that nowadays,the colleges are just want to earn more and more money,instead of giving the good education..this step now force them to teach the students in a good way..