MANILA, Philippines — A lawmaker is appealing to the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to lift the moratorium–that prevents the opening of new nursing courses–citing the shortage of nurses in the country.
During Monday’s session, Quezon Rep. Angelina Tan, who chairs the House committee on health, said that “now is the most opportune time” for CHED to assess the relevance of CHED Memorandum Order No. 32, which was issued back in 2010.
Under the memorandum, CHED imposed a moratorium on the opening of new programs in nursing, business administration, teacher education, hotel and restaurant management, and information technology (IT) education.
“Given this backdrop and h…
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