Nursing course still top choice among studes
Nursing course is still a top choice among students in the region.
Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) Regional Officer Dr. Isabela Mahler said, as in previous years they are still expecting majority of incoming students this school year 2007-2008 to take up Nursing course.
Mahler said existing data show that in every 40,000 graduates, 15 percent of them are nursing students. The lady director, however, said that the number of nursing graduates is expected to decrease because of the moratorium issued by the department over the schools offering nursing courses. The moratorium took effect in 2006. The moratorium will give each nursing school the chance to raise competent nursing graduates.
She added, they want all colleges and universities to come up with the standards set by the commission. They have to comply with the standards set for each course offered to the students. The commission is all eyes in colleges and universities that are offering substandard courses.
In checking the quality of courses offered by each college and university, the commission primarily based their assessment on the number of graduates who passed the licensure examinations and number of examinees who topped the licensure examination.
On the issue of tuition fee increase, Mahler said the students can cope with the impending tuition fee increase by applying for scholarship programs offered by the commission and the different colleges and universities.
There are different kinds of scholarship programs offered by each colleges and universities that will cater to the needs of the students. There are schools that offer academic scholarship program for students and those scholarship program, said Mahler.