My good friend and blogging colleague JD from Baguio brought this to my attention today.  Those of you interested in Baguio as a destination for your Philippine adventure might like to join JD’s Yahoo Group.

Here is the entire article from the Manila Standard dated May 15:

Saturday – Sunday, May 15 – 16, 2010

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.
… which includes four government universities and 11 other state institutions, is as follows:

Author’s note:  I’d publish this in just the mess it was published in the Standard, but in deference to my readers I cleaned up the typos and alphabetized the list.  I mean who would publish a list of more that 147 “dud” schools in random alphabetical order unless they were interested in obfuscating the situation?  Anyway, here they are.  Note that none of these schools is necessarily “bad” but they haven’t been able to get 46% of their graduates through the nursing exam for more than five years now … and there are schools with even 100% pass rates … so chose wisely.

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