(MANILA BULLETIN)
This after CHED certified the compliance of Mindoro State College of Agriculture and Technology (MinSCAT) with the requirements for its conversion into MinSU by virtue of Republic Act No. 10596.
CHED Chairman J. Prospero De Vera III said that MinSCAT has “successfully passed through a series of rigorous evaluations and assessments” conducted by the Commission.
De Vera added that MinSCAT “has fully complied with the criteria for conversion in the areas of faculty qualification, libraries and laboratories, research capability, linkages and extension services, accreditation of its degree programs, and other academic policies, systems and procedures.”
MinSCAT, with campuses in the Municipalities of Victoria (main), Calapan and Bongabong, all in the Province of Oriental Mindoro is the first state college in the Island of Mindoro to have been converted into a state university.
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The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has partnered with the Landbank of the Philippines (LBP) to launch a cash card for a efficient disbursement of financial grants to students amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
CHED Chairman J. Prospero De Vera III (Photo from Prospero De Vera’s Facebook page)
CHED Chairman J. Prospero de Vera III said more scholarships for students in the IP communities are possible with the continued funding support for the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education (UAQTE) law or Republic Act No. 10931 under the 2021 General Appropriations Act (GAA).
“President Duterte has signed the 2021 GAA recently which increased funding for the Tertiary Education Subsidy (TES) which now includes the ‘Tulong Dunong’ program,” De Vera said in a statement on Friday.
According to De Vera, many of the needy and deserving IP students are unable to avail of the TES due to lack of information and the inability of government agencies to include them in their welfare list as they live in remote upland areas.