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[아시아뉴스통신=페이 기자] 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).
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. 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.
“The 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.
De Vera said the CHED already warned HEIs last June that students who are on merit scholarship and need numeric grades would be “severely affected by HEIs that do this.” 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.
