CITY OF SAN FERNANDO – Some 40 out of 50 schools offering nursing courses in Central Luzon are under fire from the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) here for their low passing rate in nursing board examinations.
CHED regional director Dr. Felizardo Francisco cited statistics from the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) showing this.
He said the poor performing schools are not being monitored by CHED and will be the subject of a series of three evaluations before being confronted with the possibility of abolishing their nursing courses.
Francisco said CHED has already implemented a similar policy among schools whose accountancy graduates did poorly in board examinations.
He lamented that in nursing, only few schools in Central Luzon have been consistently doing well in board examinations.
Francisco said that among schools which graduate more than 100 nursing students annually in Central Luzon, the top performing include the Angeles University Foundation in Angeles City whose passing rate in the last nursing board examinations was 90 percent; the Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology in Nueva Ecija with a 58 percent passing rate; and the Araullo University in Cabanatuan City with a 41 percent passing rate.
He said that among smaller schools with less than 100 nursing graduates, the top performers include the Jose Feliciano College in Mabalacat, Pampanga which, at least in the last board examinations, had a passing rate of 53 percent and Nazareno College in Baliuag, Bulacan with 49 percent.
This, even as Francisco also revealed that only some five out of 165 private tertiary level schools in Central Luzon are slated to increase their tuition fees in the next school year.
Francisco noted that the Bataan Heroes Memorial Colleges in Bataan province was among those which initially sought tuition fee hike, but it reversed plans and decided to even lower its tuition by 10 percent amid decrease in its enrollment.
Central Luzon has 11 state colleges and universities, 165 private tertiary level schools, and eight local government colleges.
Meanwhile, public schools in Central Luzon are expected to graduate 191,542 Grade 6 pupils and 130,540 high school students as the present school year ends.
A report prepared by Feliciano Lambus, officer-in-charge of the regional planning unit of the Department of Education (DepEd) here, indicated that at the elementary level, 98,202 boys outnumber the 93,340 girls graduating this year.
At the high school level, more girls than boys are graduating. The report said 66,988 fourth-year high school girls outnumber only 63,988 boys.
Bulacan topped the list in the number of elementary pupils graduating from elementary with a total of 38,391 expected to graduate this school year, as well as in the number of high school graduates estimated at 26,139.
Pampanga came next with an expected 33,533 elementary and 22,118 high school graduates, followed by Nueva Ecija with 14,246 elementary and 21,139 high school graduates. Lowest in graduating figures was Aurora with only 4,443 elementary and 3,014 high school graduates.
Among Central Luzon’s 10 cities, Tarlac City had the most number of expected elementary graduates 6,397, but San Jose del Monte City in Bulacan is expected to graduate the most high school students, placed at 5,504. Balanga City in Bataan was lowest in figures, with only 1,792 expected elementary and 1,492 high school graduates.
CHED regional director Dr. Felizardo Francisco cited statistics from the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) showing this.
He said the poor performing schools are not being monitored by CHED and will be the subject of a series of three evaluations before being confronted with the possibility of abolishing their nursing courses.
Francisco said CHED has already implemented a similar policy among schools whose accountancy graduates did poorly in board examinations.
He lamented that in nursing, only few schools in Central Luzon have been consistently doing well in board examinations.
Francisco said that among schools which graduate more than 100 nursing students annually in Central Luzon, the top performing include the Angeles University Foundation in Angeles City whose passing rate in the last nursing board examinations was 90 percent; the Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology in Nueva Ecija with a 58 percent passing rate; and the Araullo University in Cabanatuan City with a 41 percent passing rate.
He said that among smaller schools with less than 100 nursing graduates, the top performers include the Jose Feliciano College in Mabalacat, Pampanga which, at least in the last board examinations, had a passing rate of 53 percent and Nazareno College in Baliuag, Bulacan with 49 percent.
This, even as Francisco also revealed that only some five out of 165 private tertiary level schools in Central Luzon are slated to increase their tuition fees in the next school year.
Francisco noted that the Bataan Heroes Memorial Colleges in Bataan province was among those which initially sought tuition fee hike, but it reversed plans and decided to even lower its tuition by 10 percent amid decrease in its enrollment.
Central Luzon has 11 state colleges and universities, 165 private tertiary level schools, and eight local government colleges.
Meanwhile, public schools in Central Luzon are expected to graduate 191,542 Grade 6 pupils and 130,540 high school students as the present school year ends.
A report prepared by Feliciano Lambus, officer-in-charge of the regional planning unit of the Department of Education (DepEd) here, indicated that at the elementary level, 98,202 boys outnumber the 93,340 girls graduating this year.
At the high school level, more girls than boys are graduating. The report said 66,988 fourth-year high school girls outnumber only 63,988 boys.
Bulacan topped the list in the number of elementary pupils graduating from elementary with a total of 38,391 expected to graduate this school year, as well as in the number of high school graduates estimated at 26,139.
Pampanga came next with an expected 33,533 elementary and 22,118 high school graduates, followed by Nueva Ecija with 14,246 elementary and 21,139 high school graduates. Lowest in graduating figures was Aurora with only 4,443 elementary and 3,014 high school graduates.
Among Central Luzon’s 10 cities, Tarlac City had the most number of expected elementary graduates 6,397, but San Jose del Monte City in Bulacan is expected to graduate the most high school students, placed at 5,504. Balanga City in Bataan was lowest in figures, with only 1,792 expected elementary and 1,492 high school graduates.
