MANILA - Several schools and education organizations are against the proposal of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to extend college education to five years.
The Coordinating Council of Private Education Associations (COCOPEA) on Tuesday said the CHED proposal, though aimed at improving teritary education, is not the solution to improve college education.
"Why make it five years when we're producing quality nurses with a four-year curriculum? Why not look at the content of the modules? Why not look at how we teach the students?" COCOPEA Plans and Programs Officer Ines Basaen said.
Some universities have also sounded the alarm over the proposal, which is set to be implemented first on the nursing curriculum this June.
Pamantasan Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM) President Atty. Adel Tamano said there is no reason for the extension of the curriculum by another year.
"Sa sobrang hirap ng buhay, dadagdagan mo pa ng isang taon ang pag-aaral. Sa amin po sa mga local colleges and universities, ang pagdagdag ng isang taon napakabigat yan sa isang pamilya na mahirap. And for many of them, it could actually stop them from finishing their course," Tamano, who is also the president of the Association of Local Colleges and Universities (ALCU), said.
Review center owners also said it would only be an additional financial burden to the students and their parents.
The CHED will announce proposed changes to the nursing curriculum on April, and the proposals would first go through consultations before the plan will be implemented.
100K additional expenses for nursing studes
Students and parents also opposed the extension of college education by one year, saying it would burden them with needless additional expenses.
Fourth-year high school student Edrian Garcia has been planning to take up nursing in college, but with the news of the CHED decision, he said the additional year would affect the plans of families.
"Di maganda yan dahil dagdag-gastos na naman sa nagpapa-aral sa akin," Garcia said.
"Nagdadalawang isip na ako ngayon kung paaaralin ko pa siya ng nursing sa hirap ng buhay ngayon. Ang dagdag na isang taon dagdag allowance, etc.," Jing Garcia, Edrian's mother, said.
If the CHED plan is implemented, it will mean an additional P100,000 in expenses of nursing students, regardless of whether they study in a public or private institution.
Spes Paterno, whose son Paul is currently in third year high school and plans to take up computer science in 2010--when other courses will also be extended to five years--said it would be an additional burden on parents.
source: abs-cbnnews.com
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