WITH THE DESIRE to land on lucrative jobs abroad, many students nowadays prefer to take up Nursing course. Indeed, if a survey among fourth year high school students is  randomly conducted on the spot as to what course they plan to take in college, results can be well predicted that almost half of them would pick Nursing as their choice.

In view of this ‘boom’ in the Nursing Course, schools all over the country have jumped into the playing field, taking advantage of the demand at hand. Thus the rise also of schools offering this much in demand course - even hospitals have notably opened their own schools for Nursing.

The more the merrier, so to speak. But the apprehension on the quality of education and instruction surfaces. For the interest of profit, Schools for Nursing will naturally invite and admit as many enrollees as they can. But with a big number of enrollees, are these schools still able to provide competitive standard of instruction?

Come to think of it, Nursing is one of the most expensive courses. Would that the students be given their money’s worth.

by Philamer C. Celi

ON April 27, 2006, Dr. Carlito S. Puno, chairman of the Commission on Higher Education, issued a certificatin attesting to the fact that the Lyceum-Northwestern University, with main campus in Tapuac District, Dagupan City, which was granted DEREGULATED STATUS effective October 27, 2003 until October 26, 2008, is not among the colleges and universities whose Nursing Program is being monitored and re-assessed by the Technical Committee on Nursing Education of CHED for possible phase out or closure as erreneously published in a national newspaper in March this year. Read more

DAGUPAN CITY - University of the Philippines College of Law Valedictorian Joan de Venecia, sister of Councilor Alex de Venecia, topped the September 5 bar exam as she scored 87.20%.

Joan took her legal management degree at Ateneo University before taking the law proper at UP.

A para-legal assistant of Sycip, Salazar, Gatmaitan, Joan is the 10th daughter of former Judge Tony and Norma de Venecia and a niece of Speaker Jose de Venecia, Jr.

Atty. Joan expressed her gratitude to the good Lord and the guidance and support of her parents and her brothers and sisters, namely: Alex, city councilor; Eric, banker; Ramon, businessman; Perry, medical technologist from Florida; Agosto, immigration officer; Rosette, pediatrician in Cagayan de Oro; Blanca, immigration officer; Nenuca, businesswoman from Los Angeles; Toni Anne, B.S. Biology cum laude graduate in Ateneo University.

DAGUPAN CITY - Wonderland School, located at Herrero Street, Dagupan City, will hold its two-day graduation rites on March 30, 31.

It will graduate 92 pupils broken down a follows: 38 from grade six and 54 from preparatory.

The promotional program will be held on March 30 at the First United Methodist Church in downtown Dagupan while the graduation rites will be at the Leisure Coast in Bonuan Binloc on March 31.

This will be the 45th graduation rite to be held by the school. It was founded in 1961.

Wonderland School is operated by the First United Methodist in Dagupan City. Pupils are required to speak in English.

It is headed by Mrs. Eunice Aurelio Galindez, a church deaconess who majored in Christian education at the Harris Memorial College, Manila.

The school is managed by a board of trusteed headed by Leon L. Palaganas, Jr., a retired public school supervisor. The vice chairman is Jaime L. Nabua, a Certified Public Accountant.

Other members of the board are Mrs. Arceli P. de Vera, Mrs. Gloria Francisco, Mrs. Remedios Sapiera, Mrs. Angelita David, Restituto C. Basa and Rev. Eduardo del Rosario.