“Diploma Mills” In The Philippines

http://www.higher-edge.com/docs/nsf-3_32-20041110.pdf

“Diploma Mills” In The Philippines
The term “diploma mill” usually conjures up images of fake
schools and degrees, but this is not simply the case in The
Philippines. For President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, a diploma
mill is any institution that graduates students who fail national
professional licensure examinations. These exams,
administered by the Professional Regulation Commission
(PRC), allow students to enter fields like medicine, accounting
or law. According to the President, the lack of a regulatory
board has resulted in schools producing “scores of inept
graduates.” The only authority that deals with post-secondary
education, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), is
only involved with “policy coordination” and does not enforce
any regulations.
President Arroyo said, “we will close down the schools with
track record of students failing the exams.” It seems that this
effort has already begun, as The Chronicle of Higher Education
reported that 23 nursing institutions were recently closed,
where only half of the students wrote the PRC exams.
Source: “Arroyo orders closure of diploma mills,” Manila
Bulletin, 19 August 2004; “Philippines Shuts Down 23 Nursing
Schools as Substandard,” The Chronicle of Higher Education,
9 November 2004.

 

You go girl (does anybody still say that?)!

Wow. Makes even the Great Brunton look like a piker.

 

Repeated topic

This is the same issue discussed elsewhere... on this board.