Partnership in education: Nueva Ecija police director Col. Jaime Santo and president Jojo Gallego of Manuel V. Gallego Foundation Colleges. Contributed photo
CABANATUAN CITY – Police personnel and their dependents, including dependents of retirees, in Nueva Ecija can now enjoy 50 percent discount on tuition in the wake of a memorandum of agreement between the provincial police office and a renowned college here, officials said Sunday.
“This is our way of showing our appreciation and thanks to the men and women of the PNP who risk life and limb to protect us civilians,” said Jojo Gallego, president of Manuel V. Gallego Foundation Colleges in this city.
Gallego signed the MOA with Nueva Ecija Police provincial director Col. Jaime Santos in ceremonies that was witnessed by policemen from all 32 police stations and two provincial mobile field companies via Zoom recently.
Gallego said their programs “have attained standards that are beyond the requirements of CHED (Commission on Higher Education).”
“Our criminology program for example, is the first criminology program in Region 3 to attain Level 3 accreditation with the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities Commission on Accreditation,” Gallego said.
Their nursing program, being established in 1963, was the first of its kind in Central Luzon, he said. The school will be undergoing its Level 2 re-accreditation visit on September.
“I am very pleased that our educational institution is entering into a MOA with the PNP to give special discounts in tuition to dependents of PNP Personnel,” Gallego stressed.
Aside from criminology and nursing, students can also take business, accountancy, teacher education, as well as computer science and information system.
The school has also strong IT infrastructure and internet connections to keep stable learning under online teaching amid the quarantine restrictions due to the coronavirus disease, the official said. “We have E-learning platforms and resources. Meron rin po tayong mga modules na hard copy for our students that do not have good internet access,” he said, noting their teachers were trained for the system.
“So I welcome this opportunity for a partnership with the PNP,” Gallego stressed.
Santos hailed the agreement as a welcome development to help PNP families and dependents.
