US: Pinoyland = Diploma Mill. FAPee TRAITORS: No Problem!

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Coffeeshop Chit Chat - US demand for Filipino nurses declining </TD><TD id=msgunetc noWrap align=right> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=msgtable cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="96%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=msg vAlign=top><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgbfr1 width="1%"> </TD><TD><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR class=msghead vAlign=top><TD class=msgF width="1%" noWrap align=right>From: </TD><TD class=msgFname width="68%" noWrap>kojakbt89 <NOBR></NOBR> </TD><TD class=msgDate width="30%" noWrap align=right>8:27 am </TD></TR><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgT height=20 width="1%" noWrap align=right>To: </TD><TD class=msgTname width="68%" noWrap>ALL <NOBR></NOBR></TD><TD class=msgNum noWrap align=right> (1 of 4) </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgleft rowSpan=4 width="1%"> </TD><TD class=wintiny noWrap align=right>46256.1 </TD></TR><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgtxt>
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US demand for Filipino nurses declining - educator


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Some 40 percent of Filipino nurses in the United States have undesirable work habits, which could likely be the cause for the slump in the demand for Pinoy nurses, an educator said Friday.

An article in Sun-Star Cebu quoted Henry Seno, president of the American Dream Review Institute Inc. (Amdream) as saying that the decline in the demand for Filipino nurses abroad is caused more by a change in work attitude of the latest batch of nursing professionals rather than the June 2006 nursing board exam cheating controversy.

Amdream's website said it is an affiliate of a Los Angeles-based company with operations in the Philippines that serves as a springboard for Asian operations. It was conceptualized for the purpose of assisting nurses to pass the different US immigration requirements. The Philippines is a haven for medical professionals. However, the dilemma is, only a handful passes the test required for migration to the US.

“Nurses in the Philippines now are no longer of the same quality as the nurses five to 10 years back," Seno said.

He said 40 percent of Filipino nurses in the United States, despite receiving an average salary of $8,000 to $10,000 a month, “do not show up for work (and) literally do not report to the hospitals, especially those with immigrant status (while) those who report act as if they are not there because they’re busy doing other things."

Seno also hits the growing number of nursing schools in the country, churning out nursing graduates who are lacking in hands-on experience and a good grasp of educational background.

“There are more nursing schools now and so many nursing graduates. These schools have become mere diploma mills," Seno said.

This negative scenario, he said, has caused hospitals and clinics in the United States to recruit more nurses from India, Korea and China compared to those they hire from Philippines as these institutions have become apprehensive in their choice of nursing imports.

Seno also blames local recruitment agencies for taking advantage of the need for nurses in the US by “duping" hospitals and health institutions to hire Pinoy nurses who are not qualified for nursing jobs. - Luis Gorgonio, GMANews.TV</TD></TR><TR><TD> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

 

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<TABLE id=msgUN border=0 cellSpacing=3 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD id=msgUNsubj vAlign=top> Coffeeshop Chit Chat - Low quality of Filipino graduates...</TD><TD id=msgunetc noWrap align=right> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=msgtable cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="96%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=msg vAlign=top><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgbfr1 width="1%"> </TD><TD><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR class=msghead vAlign=top><TD class=msgF width="1%" noWrap align=right>From: </TD><TD class=msgFname width="68%" noWrap>kojakbt89 <NOBR></NOBR> </TD><TD class=msgDate width="30%" noWrap align=right>3:43 am </TD></TR><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgT height=20 width="1%" noWrap align=right>To: </TD><TD class=msgTname width="68%" noWrap>ALL <NOBR></NOBR></TD><TD class=msgNum noWrap align=right> (1 of 2) </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgleft rowSpan=4 width="1%"> </TD><TD class=wintiny noWrap align=right>46239.1 </TD></TR><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgtxt>Higher education plagued by endemic poor board results
By Andrewly A. Agaton, Alphonsus Luigi A. Alfonso and Jonathan Eli A. Libut
[URL]http://www.varsitarian.net/special_reports/higher_education_plagued_by_endemic_poor_board_results[/URL]
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- Over the years, Philippine higher education, once the envy of the region, has been undermined by the relentless mushrooming of universities and colleges, many of questionable quality, and the inability of authorities to enforce even the basic standards.
- Poor-quality schools, many of them state-run or business-oriented, are in fact dragging down the national passing rates in board exams, barely producing graduates with minimum competence.
- The Philippines now has the biggest number of higher education institutions in Southeast Asia, according to a study by the Asian Development Bank last June, which questioned the ¡°rapid expansion without sufficient attention to the conditions of success.¡±
- The Philippines hosts a total of 5,184 higher learning institutions, double than that of Indonesia and 10 times the number of that in the more affluent Thailand.
- In contrast, there are more Thai, Malaysian and Indonesian schools in the annual ranking of the world¡¯s top 500 universities by a London publication, where only two Philippine institutions, the University of the Philippines and Ateneo de Manila, made it.
- Using state licensure exams as a gauge of the quality of education, may schools, private and public alike, seem to be falling way behind. According to the latest available data from the PRC, out of 1,254 colleges and universities in the country that participated in at least one of the licensure exams in 2005, 99 schools registered a zero passing rate.
- A total of 360 government schools had an average passing rate of only 35 percent while 1,254 private institutions registered an average over all passing rate of 36 percent.
- PRC data from 1999 to 2003 showed that private schools University of the Visayas, Medina College, Feati University, National University, and the University of Northeastern Philippines had the lowest passing rates in the country. A total of 118 out of 402 low-performing or zero-rate schools were state-owned.
- Sub-par schools are rampant in popular and commercial courses like nursing, accounting, education, and engineering. For instance, Martinez Memorial College, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Pasay and the Unciano Colleges and General Hospital-Manila were the three lowest performing schools in nursing in 2005, recording a passing rate of less than 20 percent.
- In the 2005 Certified Public Accountant boards, the Divine Word College of Legazpi, University of Luzon, and University of Pangasinan produced only 46 passers out of a combined total of 471 examinees, or a passing rate of of a dismal 10 percent.
- The chain of AMA schools turned out having more low and zero passing rates compared to others in the Electronics and Communications Engineering boards. Even established engineering schools like the Technological Institute of the Philippines in Manila and Quezon City performed unsatisfactorily.
- PRC chief Leonor Tripon-Rosero said the declining quality of higher education in the country is reflected in the performance of these schools, and it¡¯s up to school administrators whether or not to improve quality. ¡°It is down to the quality of education because there are some schools that adversely open without even complying with the standards of Ched,¡± Rosero told the Varsitarian.
- But poorly performing schools, which are supposed to have been closed by Ched, still continue to operate.
- ¡°No school offering Nursing programs has ever been closed in the exercise of Ched¡¯s regulatory authority, thereby allowing these low-performing schools to continue offering the course to the detriment of their students,¡± the report stated.
- Malitao explained that low performing schools continue to operate to take advantage of in-demand courses like nursing. ¡°Actually, nursing is the lifeblood of every school today, especially for the new ones,¡± Malitao said, pointing to the big enrollment in numerous nursing schools in the country.
- According to the PRC, the nursing programs of some of the new schools have registered zero passing rates.
- Meeting just the minimum requirements of Ched, some new schools even manage to put up several branches across the country while participating only in a few licensure exams, mostly in nursing and computer courses.
- ¡°We try to phase out some of the programs, but one of the schools filed a lawsuit against us,¡± Malitao said. Malitao said there have been court orders and counter suits, but in the end, that school won the case and continued to operate.
- What happens is that these schools accept as many students as possible but do not give the quality of education students are supposed to receive.

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