{"id":265132,"date":"2020-08-13T04:37:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T08:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=265132"},"modified":"2020-08-13T20:54:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T00:54:37","slug":"424-students-may-lose-scholarship-due-to-heis-pass-all-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/08\/13\/424-students-may-lose-scholarship-due-to-heis-pass-all-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"424 students may lose scholarship due to HEIs’ ‘pass all’ policy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Unlike the Tertiary Education Subsidy (TES) and Tulong Dunong grants, the CMSP is awarded to students based purely on scholastic performance or grades in priority degree programs of the government. (File photo: Element5 Digital\/Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) called on 17 higher education institutions (HEIs) to provide the numerical grades of 424 student scholars so they could continue their education with benefits under the CHED Merit Scholarship Program (CMSP).<\/p>\n

Unlike the Tertiary Education Subsidy (TES) and Tulong Dunong grants, the CMSP is awarded to students based purely on scholastic performance or grades in priority degree programs of the government.<\/p>\n

The CMSP scholars are required to maintain a general weighted average (GWA) of at least 85 percent or its equivalent if they are a full scholar or 80 percent or its equivalent if a half scholar.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem was caused by HEIs who did a ‘pass all’ policy in their second semester. I made it very clear in CHED announcements that while the grading system of HEIs are determined and exercised by individual HEIs in the exercise of their academic freedom, any decision to adopt a ‘pass all’ policy must ensure that the interests of individual students are not compromised,” CHED Chairman J. Prospero de Vera III said in a news release on Thursday.<\/p>\n

De Vera said the CHED already warned HEIs last June that students who are on merit scholarship and need numeric grades would be \u201cseverely affected by HEIs that do this.\u201d<\/p>\n

The commission has written the presidents of the 17 HEIs to immediately give these scholars and grantees numeric grades, otherwise, they would lose their scholarships and may need to stop schooling.<\/p>\n

\u201cApplicants are ranked based on their Grade Point Average and those with the highest grades get the merit scholarship. If the HEIs will not give them numeric grades, what will be the basis to determine if the students will get financial assistance from the government?\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The 17 HEIs that have CHED merit scholars and grantees but adopted a “pass all” policy are Saint Mary\u2019s University; Bataan Heroes Memorial College; De La Salle University \u2013 Dasmari\u00f1as; STI College Rosario; University of the Philippines Los Ba\u00f1os; Cavite State University; Mary Help of Christians College \u2013 Salesians Sisters, Inc.; Ateneo de Naga University; Partido College; Pili Capital College, Inc.; Bicol State College of Applied Sciences and Technology; University of the Philippines \u2013 Visayas; Mindanao State University \u2013 Iligan Institute of Technology;\u00a0Mindanao State University \u2013 Naawan; Polytechnic University of the Philippines \u2013 Sta. Mesa, Manila; University of Baguio; and\u00a0Mindanao State University \u2013 Marawi.<\/p>\n

\u201cCHED has given these HEIs until Oct. 30, 2020 to provide the numerical grades so that our CHED regional offices can properly evaluate the GWA of the scholars and determine their eligibility to continue,\u201d de Vera said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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