FFC extends enrollment until end of the month
ROXAS CITY – Filamer Christian College (FCC) has extended its enrollment until the end of the month as it still admits students even without down payment.
Lawyer Mariano Dioso, Board of Trustee member, said that the extension would benefit those students who are late enrollees.
Earlier, FCC announced that the school is implementing the study now pay later scheme or no down payment in all courses and level of the school.
Dioso said the scheme was conceptualized during the board meeting that the school opening is not harvest season thus, students whose parents are farmers find it hard to spend their tuition fees.
Meanwhile, FCC officials, in a press conference clarified reports on the warning issued by the Commission on Higher Education (Ched) regarding the performance of FCC’s nursing school in the nursing exams.
Mr. Jessie Contreras, member of the Board of Trustee (BOT), said that the FCC’s nursing school is still the best in Capiz, in the entire country and in the whole world. He cited that many of FCC’s nursing graduates are now successfully working in various parts of the globe.
Contreras, who is concurrent administrator of the Capiz Emmanuel Hospital (CEH) stressed that its nursing school is not closed, contrary to the rumors, but will improve more as the FCC is gunning to be converted into a university in the near future.
“We have the best hospital, the Capiz Emmanuel Hospital where the nursing students undergo their on-the-job training,” Contreras said.
Dr. Expedito Señeres, FCC president, also clarified that it’s only in 2010 that the school failed to pass the national percentage of the nursing board examination in which according to him, in 2008, the school has 49% passing percentage which was higher than the national passing percentage of 43.78 while in 2009, FCC got 52.72 passing percentage while the national passing percentage was only 40.8%.
He clarified that the FCC school of nursing failed to pass the national percentage in the recent board exam because of the many re-takers who failed to pass the board exam.
He added that the FCC nursing department is now inviting the re-takers to refresh themselves by attending the classes for free in order to pass the appraisal test before taking the board exam again.
Señeres also said that the first timers will have also to pass first the appraisal test before taking the same.
The FCC officials also announced that the school will have a 5% increase on tuition fees and other fees of the school, however, the said school will give discount to those parents having two or three students.
They also said that children of the members of the media who study at FCC are entitled to 10% discount.
FCC is a sister school of Central Philippine University in Iloilo City and is being run by Convention Baptist under the banner of Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches. The board of trustees (including the Capiz Emmanuel Hospital, Iloilo Mission Hospital, Central Philippine University and Filamer Christian College) are pure baptists and are members of Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches.
