Comments on: June 2007 Nursing Exam Results http://igorotblogger.com/2007/08/june-2007-nursing-exam-results.html A news and information blog on the Igorots/iCordilleras Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:38:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bill Bilig http://igorotblogger.com/2007/08/june-2007-nursing-exam-results.html#comment-1731 Bill Bilig Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:04:00 +0000 http://igorotblogger.com/?p=377#comment-1731 Hi Cheryl,<br/>Thanks. I was pleasantly surprised that Easter School did so well. It's good to know the people behind this success. Hope they continue to give a good education to their students :-) Hi Cheryl,
Thanks. I was pleasantly surprised that Easter School did so well. It’s good to know the people behind this success. Hope they continue to give a good education to their students :-)

]]> By: Cheryl Daytec-Yañgot http://igorotblogger.com/2007/08/june-2007-nursing-exam-results.html#comment-1722 Cheryl Daytec-Yañgot Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:22:00 +0000 http://igorotblogger.com/?p=377#comment-1722 Bill, by the way, Easter School is No. 10 nationwide. I find the record highly impressive because this batch of successful examinees (95 out of 111, not 94/110 as originally reported) is the first. Easter is No. 2 in the region.<br/><br/>I am singling out Easter College because it is a school to which we Igorots seem to have a proprietary attitude. This is perhaps it has always been run by Igorots with Igorots dominating the faculty and student population. Furthermore, the current dean is the hardworking Ruth Thelma Peang-Tingda, the incumbent Governor of the Philippine Nurses Assocatione-CAR. She was one of the nursing leaders who exposed the cheating in the nursing exam of June 2007. To top it all, she is an Igorot - one of us. Her school's phenomenal rise is ours to celebrate. Kua tako di!<br/><br/>By the way, nrusing schools always managed to produce allied hospitals. There is a bigger conspiracy, don't you think? Bill, by the way, Easter School is No. 10 nationwide. I find the record highly impressive because this batch of successful examinees (95 out of 111, not 94/110 as originally reported) is the first. Easter is No. 2 in the region.

I am singling out Easter College because it is a school to which we Igorots seem to have a proprietary attitude. This is perhaps it has always been run by Igorots with Igorots dominating the faculty and student population. Furthermore, the current dean is the hardworking Ruth Thelma Peang-Tingda, the incumbent Governor of the Philippine Nurses Assocatione-CAR. She was one of the nursing leaders who exposed the cheating in the nursing exam of June 2007. To top it all, she is an Igorot – one of us. Her school’s phenomenal rise is ours to celebrate. Kua tako di!

By the way, nrusing schools always managed to produce allied hospitals. There is a bigger conspiracy, don’t you think?

]]> By: Bill Bilig http://igorotblogger.com/2007/08/june-2007-nursing-exam-results.html#comment-1715 Bill Bilig Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:37:00 +0000 http://igorotblogger.com/?p=377#comment-1715 Hi Cheryl,<br/>Thanks. That's a funny (but actually more sad than funny) about that Senator. Maybe we really should try this business ano? Mukhang instant money maker. <br/><br/>Yeah, I think I was being too optimistic in saying that the government is doing something to close the bad nursing schools. A jump from 200-plus schools to 470-plus in only two years? Wow! That's really something. Maybe it will double again in 2008. Thanks again.<br/><br/>Hi Nashman,<br/>Agree diyan sa no allied hospital=no permit. Kawawa talaga mga estudyante, tinataga sila sa gastos. Thanks. Hi Cheryl,
Thanks. That’s a funny (but actually more sad than funny) about that Senator. Maybe we really should try this business ano? Mukhang instant money maker.

Yeah, I think I was being too optimistic in saying that the government is doing something to close the bad nursing schools. A jump from 200-plus schools to 470-plus in only two years? Wow! That’s really something. Maybe it will double again in 2008. Thanks again.

Hi Nashman,
Agree diyan sa no allied hospital=no permit. Kawawa talaga mga estudyante, tinataga sila sa gastos. Thanks.

]]> By: The Nashman http://igorotblogger.com/2007/08/june-2007-nursing-exam-results.html#comment-1708 The Nashman Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:39:00 +0000 http://igorotblogger.com/?p=377#comment-1708 No allied hospital = no nursing school permit!!<br/><br/>I was talking to my mom on the phone and she briefly mentioned that a boarder was going to the lowlands to do her practicals even if the nursing school is in Baguio......super gastos! No allied hospital = no nursing school permit!!

I was talking to my mom on the phone and she briefly mentioned that a boarder was going to the lowlands to do her practicals even if the nursing school is in Baguio……super gastos!

]]> By: CHERYL DAYTEC-YAÑGOT http://igorotblogger.com/2007/08/june-2007-nursing-exam-results.html#comment-1699 CHERYL DAYTEC-YAÑGOT Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:15:00 +0000 http://igorotblogger.com/?p=377#comment-1699 01502I agree with The Nashman that topnotch education is the key. But how can we achieve topnotch education when the Arroyo Administration liberalized the nursing schools? The Commission on Higher Education is granting permits to nursing schools, left and right, front and back. There are so many nursing schools without adequate facilities but they were granted CHED permits. This is in line with GMA's labor export policy. Our nursing labor is our most marketable export.<br/><br/>At the height of the nursing exam scandal, we brought the issue of poor nursing education to the Senate. The concerned nursing leaders told the Senate that in 2004, there were 200-plus nursing schools in the country. By 2006, the figure rose to 470-plus. The Senators were shocked. I do not know what happened after the shock wore off. I heard that a Senator opened a nursing school. :-) <br/><br/>I scanned official data and found out that many nursing schools have been dismal performers (Translation: very poor passing rate, some as low as 0%, if that should even qualify as poor) for more than five years. What did the CHED do? Instead of shutting down the diploma mills, it authorized the opening of more schools. Understand me, my dearest Bill, if I do not share your optimism that the government is trying to close down non-performing schools. As a matter of policy, it should. The threats are mere rhetoric. The reality is you and I can open a school as long as we have the building.<br/><br/>It is easy to understand why review centers are so "in-demand"- they provide what the schools do not - the proficiency to pass an exam. No wonder when the nursing grads pass the board, they thank the review centers, not the schools. <br/><br/>Good grief! And good day! 01502I agree with The Nashman that topnotch education is the key. But how can we achieve topnotch education when the Arroyo Administration liberalized the nursing schools? The Commission on Higher Education is granting permits to nursing schools, left and right, front and back. There are so many nursing schools without adequate facilities but they were granted CHED permits. This is in line with GMA’s labor export policy. Our nursing labor is our most marketable export.

At the height of the nursing exam scandal, we brought the issue of poor nursing education to the Senate. The concerned nursing leaders told the Senate that in 2004, there were 200-plus nursing schools in the country. By 2006, the figure rose to 470-plus. The Senators were shocked. I do not know what happened after the shock wore off. I heard that a Senator opened a nursing school. :-)

I scanned official data and found out that many nursing schools have been dismal performers (Translation: very poor passing rate, some as low as 0%, if that should even qualify as poor) for more than five years. What did the CHED do? Instead of shutting down the diploma mills, it authorized the opening of more schools. Understand me, my dearest Bill, if I do not share your optimism that the government is trying to close down non-performing schools. As a matter of policy, it should. The threats are mere rhetoric. The reality is you and I can open a school as long as we have the building.

It is easy to understand why review centers are so “in-demand”- they provide what the schools do not – the proficiency to pass an exam. No wonder when the nursing grads pass the board, they thank the review centers, not the schools.

Good grief! And good day!

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