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BY RESEL JOY TIANERO
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Monday, February 27, 2017
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ILOILO City – Educational tours can enhance the students’ knowledge but these are not compulsory, stressed the presidents of the Iloilo Science and Technology University (ISAT-U) and West Visayas State University (WVSU).
“We call them experiential learning activities,” said Dr. Raul Muyong of ISAT-U in a radio interview.
These can enhance the students’ knowledge, he stressed, because learning is not only confined within the classroom.
“Part sang curriculum ang educational tours kag ginakabig namon na nga importante gid para ma-fully educate ang aton nga mga estudyante,” added Muyong.
WVSU’s Dr. Luis Sorolla echoed Muyong’s take on educational tours but acknowledged the dilemma faced by students, especially the financially hard-up.
“Magasto gid man ang mga field trips, ilabi na sa mga kubos nga mga estudyante,” said Sorolla.
The conduct tours is govern by Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Memorandum Order (CMO) No. 17, series of 2012, the two university presidents clarified.
CHED suspended all field trips and educational tours of public and private colleges and universities following last week’s bus crash in Tanay, Rizal that killed at least 15 people, mostly students on a field trip.
CHED Region 6 chief education program specialist Dr. Rex Casiple told Panay News all schools in Western Visayas were informed of the suspension order.
“In lieu of field trips or external campus activities, [higher education institutions] should institute replacement activities that will serve the purpose intended by such off-campus activities [and] preserve the objectives sought to be achieved,” he said.
Under CHED CMO No. 17, schools must submit to the commission all field trip and educational tour requirements a month before the opening of classes.
Casiple said the memo does not give CHED the authority to approve the activities; the school’s president has the final say.
“We have alternative requirements for students who cannot join educational tours,” Casiple said. “They are called ‘replacement activities’ like a seminar, a term paper or reporting.”/PN
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