DEPUTY Speaker Carlos Padilla is calling for a congressional inquiry that will determine the proper government agency that should regulate all review centers for the Nursing Licensure Examination.
Padilla (Lone District, Nueva Vizcaya) sought the inquiry through House Resolution 28, saying that presently there is no government entity that regulates nursing review centers and enforces precautionary measures that will stem the rampant abuses or violations of these review centers.
Previously, he said the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) was tasked by then President Arroyo to regulate nursing review centers by virtue of Executive Order 566 issued on September 8, 2006.
Mrs. Arroyo stressed in EO 566 the overriding necessity to protect the public against substandard review centers and unethical practices committed by some review centers which she said demand that a regulatory framework for the establishment and operation of review centers and similar entities be immediately instituted;
Padilla, a former House Minority Leader, said EO 566 directed the CHED to regulate the establishment and operation of nursing review centers and in compliance therewith, the CHED circulated on May 7, 2007 Memorandum Order No. 30 constituting the Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations (RIRR) Governing the Establishment and Operation of Review Centers and Similar Entities in the Philippines.
However, The Supreme Court declared as void both EO 566 and CHED Memorandum Order 30 for being unconstitutional when it ruled in the case of Review Center Association of the Philippines versus then Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita and CHED represented by its then Chairman Romulo Neri according to Padilla.
“In view of the Supreme Court’s decision, there is no government body which regulates nursing review centers and enforces precautionary measures that will stem the rampant abuses of these nursing review centers. There is an ardent need to identify and designate a government agency which will oversee or regulate review centers,” Padilla said.
During the 15th Congress, Padilla also called for a similar inquiry through House Resolution 2190 to determine the appropriate agency, which shall oversee nursing review centers. The resolution remained pending at the House Committee on Higher and Technical Education.
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