For our readers who don’t usually visit the comments section, we are uploading Cheryl’s comments because she shares some interesting information and raises some important points about nursing schools. Cheryl knows what she is talking about because she is the lead counsel of the group of nursing students and faculty which exposed the cheating in last year’s nursing board exam. Read our post about said scandal here.
In case you haven’t visited Cheryl’s blog yet, then you should visit it here. You are missing one third of your life if you haven’t read her poems 🙂 Cheryl Daytec-Yangot on nursing schools: I 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 (CHED) 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.
The tragedy occurs when limited natural resources get depleted because individuals use them for their private interests and without regard for the common good. More about “tragedy of the commons” here.
The above image shows the situation of the Busol watershed. According to Art Tibaldo who sent us the photo, “If you are to count the pine and other trees in the map, I’m quite certain that their number is not more than the houses in Aurora Hill, Bayan Park, Marcoville and Trancoville combined.”
Congratulations to the following examinees from Baguio schools who made it to the top ten:
Top 6: Cecilia Arceo Dacanay, Baguio Central University (BCU), 86.60 Top 9: Divina Zuerte Pasetes Diomampo, Pines City College (PCEC), 86.00
Congratulations too to St. Louis University for having a 99% passing rate (299 out of 302) which ties it for first place — among schools that have 100 and more examinees — with the Trinity University of Asia (Q.C.) and St. Paul University (Iloilo).
Really, Baguio City officials, don’t you have more important things to do? What will Baguio City gain in joining this silly suit filed by the League of Cities in the Philippines (LCP) against newly formed cities such as Tabuk in Kalinga Province?
Will it stop the uglification of Baguio? Will it improve the city’s quality of air so it becomes breathable and regains its pine scent? Will it stop the landslides that kill your constituents during heavy rains? Will it decongest a city bursting at the seams?
So we were preparing to diss Baguio Congressman Mauricio Domogan with words like, “Boo, he does everything GMA bids him to do but he is not rewarded at all with an important position in Congress.” It turns out that our imagined reason for dissing him is no longer valid.
Why? Well, he just got himself an important position in Congress. Domogan now heads the congressional component of the House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal, the body which decides the election protests filed against members of the Lower House. No doubt he will continue to do GMA’s bidding there but at least he got some reward for his loyalty to GMA. Congratulations to you sir. We will eat our words for now. We still don’t like your being such a GMA rah-rah boy but at least you got something from being one.
For our readers who don’t usually visit the comments section, we are uploading Cheryl’s comments because she shares some interesting information and raises some important points about nursing schools. Cheryl knows what she is talking about because she is the lead counsel of the group of nursing students and faculty which exposed the cheating in last year’s nursing board exam. Read our post about said scandal here.
