Data from the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) disclosed that 424 students are at risk of losing their merit scholarship due to the non-issuance of numerical grades amid the “pass all” policy of some institutions.
“Ito iyong scholarship na based purely on grade… Kung hindi sila bibigyan ng numeric grade ng kanilang pamantasan, walang basehan iyong Komisyon na i-evaluate kung sila ay dapat magpatuloy sa scholarship dahil hindi mako-compute iyong kanilang general weighted average (This scholarship is purely based on grade…If they are not given numeric grades by their university, the Commission will not have basis to evaluate if they can continue with the scholarship since their general weighted average cannot be computed),” CHED Chairman J. Prospero de Vera III explained.
Php 40,000 and Php 20,000 worth of assistance are granted by the CHED to students whose GWA is not lower the 85 percent and 80 percent, respectively.
The CHED has already written to the 17 higher education institutions that implemented such policy to expedite the issuance of grades to the scholars. The colleges and universities were given until October 30 to evaluate the grade of scholars.
The following are the higher education institutions with CHED-MSP but have adopted the “pass all” policy:
1. Saint Mary’s University
2. Bataan Heroes Memorial College
3. De La Salle University – Dasmariñas
4. STI College Rosario
5. University of the Philippines Los Baños
6. Cavite State University
7. Mary Help of Christians College-Salesians Sisters Inc.
8. Ateneo de Naga University
9. Partido College
10. Pili Capital College, Inc.
11. Bicol State College of Applied Sciences and Technology
12. University of the Philippines-Visayas
13. Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology
14. Mindanao State University- Naawan
15. Polytechnic University of the Philippines – Sta. Mesa, Manila
16. University of Baguio
17. Mindanao State University – Marawi
Report from Cleizl Pardilla
