IN the light of the belated pronouncement of CHED on the stoppage of the program of the SUCs taking in senior high school enrollees, House senior member Robert Ace Barbers called on the President to review the composition and competence of the appointed CHED Commissioners.
Barbers said that 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.
“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,” Barbers said.
“It is not enough that we appoint Masteral or Doctorate degree holders as CHED Commissioners. We should make sure that they possess outstanding managerial experience, expert and experienced educators, tested by time, and 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,” Barbers said.
“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,” Barbers said.
