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NI ROMEO ALLAN BUTUYAN II
SA gitna ng kabi-kabilang batikos kaugnay ng direktibang inilabas ng Commission on Higher Education (CHED), umapela sa Palasyo ang isang beteranong mambabatas para sa agarang pagrerebisa sa kwalipikasyon at kakayahan ng mga opisyal na itinalaga sa nasabing ahensya.
Ayon kay House senior member Robert Ace Barbers na tumatayong chairman ng House Committee on Dangerous Drugs, angkop lang na tiyakin ni Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Jr. na may sapat na kaalaman at angking kakayahan ng bawat opisyal sa CHED – partikular sa hanay ng mga komisyunado.
Para kay Barbers, lubhang nakababahala ang desisyon ng CHED sa pagpapatigil ng programa para sa senior high school enrollees sa iba’t-ibang state universities and colleges (SUCs)
“Instead of extending assistance to the DEPED in continuing the program with the objective of improving the quality of our basic education, CHED instead focused on certain minor technicalities, betraying their competence in the education system as a whole,” diin ng Surigao del Norte lawmaker.
“Instead of being part of the solution, CHED created another problem. It is as if our educational system is not beset with enough problems. The callous pronouncement only shows the priorities and incompetence of the sitting set of Commissioners, whose qualifications and outputs should now be reviewed by a body created by the President,” tigas na sabi pa ni Barbers.
Giit ng Mindanaoan solon, hindi naman kinakailangang Masteral o Doctorate degree holders ang maging CHED Commissioners, bagkus ang dapat na kunin para sa nasabing posisyon ay yaong may taglay na “outstanding managerial experience, expert at experienced educators, tested by time, at with proven track record and character.”
“Some Commissioners act like Gods and lord it over the institutions of higher learning. These are questions of character which do not have a place in our educational system,” ani Barbers.
“It is about time that we review the performance of each individual Commissioner so that we may appoint the rightful people who can check our slide in education standards and improve our global standing, not just on paper but in actual performance of our graduates,” sambit pa ng mambabatas.
