CHED flunks 147 nursing schools
A TOTAL of 147 public and private schools face closure of their nursing courses after their graduates performed below the national passing percentage rate of 46.14 for the past five years, the Commission on Higher Education said Friday.
Agency Chairman Emmanuel Angeles provided reporters with a list of the schools, saying by publicizing the names “they will be forced to improve their performance.”
“With this move, we are helping not only the parents and students to carefully choose the nursing schools they want to go to,” Angeles said.
The agency’s list, which includes four government universities and 11 other state institutions, is as follows: