President Rodrigo Roa Duterte has approved the Commission on Higher Education’s (CHED) request for the expansion of limited face-to-face classes to other degree programs that require hands-on experience in higher education institutions (HEIs) under Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ). The urgent need for hands-on experience and the safety of students taking up medicine and allied continue reading : Expansion of limited face-to-face classes to other degree programs approved by PRRD – CHED

All Commission on Higher Education (CHED) offices nationwide have achieved the required vaccination level to protect their employees during the pandemic. A total of 1,198 out of 1,280 (93%) CHED education frontliners have now been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as part of the CHED’s efforts to protect them as they deliver essential services to the continue reading : CHED reaches herd immunity with employee vaccination

Face-to-face clinical rotation of clinical clerks and post-graduate/medical interns will now continue regardless of community quarantine status subject to the guidelines that will be issued by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and Department of Health (DOH).   This is pursuant to the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) Resolution continue reading : Clinical rotation of Clinical Clerks and Post-graduate/Medical Interns to continue regardless of community quarantine status

The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has appointed new members of the Technical Panel (TP) for Environmental Engineering to harness the expertise of academe, government agencies, industry, and professional organizations towards reforms that will ensure that academic programs produce competent graduates that will supply the manpower needs for the local and international labor markets. “The continue reading : CHED appoints New Technical Panel for Environmental Engineering Program

It has come to my attention that my statement during the budget briefing yesterday, 09 September, on student financial assistance has been misrepresented and is now being used in social media to confuse students and attack the Commission on Higher Education (CHED).     In the budget hearing yesterday I enumerated the following student financial continue reading : Statement on the alleged ‘no Financial Aid for Students for 2022’