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LAWS AND ETHICS IN EDUCATION
Mid term Requirements
1. Discuss the highlights of R.A. 7722 (Higher Education Act 0f 1994). How
relevant is this law? How has this law brought reforms in higher education
institutions? Cite specific curricular innovations and quality improvement
mechanisms by CHED.
R.A. 7722 otherwise known as Higher Education Act of 1994 paved way to the
creation of Commission on Higher Education (CHED). The Commission is
independent and is directly attached to office of the president for administrative
purposes only. It is the governing body covering both public and private higher
education institutions as well as degree-granting programs in all tertiary educational
institutions in the Philippines as stated in section 3. Section 8 enumerates the
commissions tasks to promote, maintain and further improve the quality of
education through thorough planning and monitoring the Higher EducationInstitutions (HEIs) curricular programs s well as evaluate the performance of their
programs by making research studies. Moreover, the act guaranteed academic
freedom among the universities and colleges as long as they are able to conform to
the standards set by the commission when it comes to admission and curricular
programs. CHED is also commissioned to set incentives to those tertiary schools
both private and public, whose programs are accredited (section 14).
The EDCOM(, a congressional commission created in the 1990 Joint Congressional
Resolution signed by them Senate President Jovito Salonga and House Speaker
Ramon Mitra) report of 1991 revealed the ill situation of the countrys educational
system highlighting the poor quality of graduates turn-out by HEIs and themediocre graduate education. The enactment of RA 7722 is the EDCOMs
recommendation to address the continuous decline of the Philippine education
system.
CHED designed a program so that higher education can produce empowered and
globally competitive graduates. Various projects have been created to improve
higher education, namely: 1. National Higher Education Research Agenda (NHERA),
2. Expanded Tertiary Education Equivalency and Accreditation Program, and 3.
Centers of Excellence/Centers of Development1.
1. Research setsHigher Education apart from Basic Education Research. Itensures the continued growth and development of the entire higher
education sector. Creating NHERA is CHEDs response to the call for a
stronger research orientation among the universities. National Higher
Education Research Agenda (NHERA), formulated in 1996, articulates the
goals of higher education research as well as the mechanics and concrete
steps for achieving these goals. CHED has likewise established 12 Zonal
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Research Centers (ZRC) in the country to further promote and encourage
research in public and private HEIs.
2. ETEEAP (Expanded Tertiary Education Equivalency and Accreditation
Program) is an educational assessment scheme that provides an access to individuals
who wish to earn a bachelors degree through their professionalachievements, non-formal and informal educational experiences through equivalency
and accreditation. The program was pursued through the issuance ofExecutive
Order 330 by President Fidel V. Ramos on May 13, 1996 as an outcome of the Recommendation
of the First Employment Summit in 1995, and run by the Commission on Higher Education, in
partnership with colleges and universities all over the country Through this program, an individual
may be granted a diploma for a degree after a competency-based evaluation from established
equivalency competencies standards and a comprehensive assessment system employing
written tests, interviews, skills demonstration, portfolio and other creative assessment
methodologies2. . This program gives a great opportunity to working individuals who werent able
to send themselves to school but have been very dedicated and efficient to their jobs.
3. To strengthen and further improve the quality of teacher preparation in thePhilippines, CHED has identified Centers of Excellence (COEs) and Centers of
Development (CODs) for teacher education. Center of Excellence refers to a
teacher education program in a higher education institution (HEI), which
continuously demonstrates excellent performance in the areas of instruction,
research and publication, extension and linkages, institutional qualifications
and provides excellent quality pre-service teacher education program to
meet the needs of progressive teachers for elementary, secondary and
special education programs. On the other hand, Center of Development
refers to a teacher education program in an HEI, which demonstrates the
potential to become a COE in the future. The identified COEs and CODs areexpected to serve as catalyst in attaining and fulfilling the programs mission
of producing professionally competent and morally upright teacher education
graduates 3.
4.
Among the specific roles and responsibilities of identified COEs include the
following: Act as role
models / leaders in teacher education programs (TEP); Sustain and enhanceresearch capabilities and upgrade
professional or research graduate programs in teacher education; Provide
assistance to agencies / institutions
within their geographical area of coverage; Undertake activities / projects necessary
in developing quality
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TEP; Accelerate the development of the TEP through strategic developmental
agenda and projects; Develop
quality instructional programs through faculty development and upgrading of
facilities and library holdings;
Undertake basic and applied research activities on emerging trends and
developments in the field of teacher
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This program was focused on strengthening human resources via higher education
thrusts with quality and excellence, relevance and responsiveness, access and
quality and efficiency and effectiveness.
Higher education makes up the backbone of any human resource development
plan. National development depends on higher education for high level manpower.
Higher education institutions are looked up as sources of the manpowerrequirements to spur socio-economic growth of the country.
The seriousness of the present educational system as pointed out by EDCOM
Report was translated into the enactment of RA 7722; creating the CHED
(Commission on Higher Education), in 1995, to supervise the tertiary degree
programs. This change was hopefully could turn out
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3 http://www.ipedr.com/vol30/64-ICEMI%202012-M10066.pdf
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2. Relate the core values of CHED: Relevance, Excellence and Responsiveness
to the curricular innovations and quality improvement vis-a-vis competence
of the graduates and industry requirements.
3. How relevant or irrelevant are the provisions of this Batas Pambansa bilang
232 (Eduaction Act of 1982). Cite specifics and discuss comprehensively.
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The Eduation Act composed of 73 sections divided into 5 parts. The fi
4. Republic Act No. 9155 (Governance of basic Education the power to uplift the
quality of instruction Kindergarten, Elementary and Secondary levels). Cite
provisions which have contributed to the by discussing the highlights of the
law.
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