REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
Third Regular Session

House Bill No,__ 8463

Introduced by MAGDALO Party-List Representative
HON. GARY C. ALEJANO

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks the establishment of a Center for Leading Edge Educational ‘Technologies
(CLEET) which will bring together the academic, technological, and economic forces that can
advance the educational promise of affordable technologies. It will be dedicated to the development
of the appropriate educational materials for use in these emerging technologies. To be able to do
this, we need to train people to be CLEET experts and acquire a critical mass of equipment and
software, centrally located in a high-technology facility

‘The CLEET will be a partnership of the government and the private sector. Its thrust would
be education and information technology combined, but its operations should have a heavier
emphasis on the information technology aspects.

The Center will train educators, trainors, and practitioners from across the nation to
influence the directions of educational technology. The premise is that educational priorities should
lead, rather than react to the development of affordable educational technologies. The goal is to
assemble a high-technology facility for accessing leading-edge hardware, software, and materials
and a core of leadership to determine these priorities and to bring technology to bear on them as
appropriate. First priorities will be areas of manpower developments and the educational curricula
that are of broad importance and that are amenable to the educational promise of technology.

In view of the foregoing, approval of this bill is eamestly sought.

N

p. Garyfl. Alejano


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REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
‘Third Regular Session

House Bill No,_8463

Introduced by MAGDALO Party-List Representative
HON. GARY C. ALEJANO

AN ACT
CREATING THE CENTER FOR LEADING-EDGE EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES,
PROVIDING FOR ITS ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE, POWERS AND FUNCTIONS,
AUTHORIZING THE APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS THEREOF, AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress
assembled,

SECTION 1. Short Title—This Act shall be known as the “Center for Leading-Edge
Educational Technologies Act.”

SEC. 2. Declaration of Policy and Objectives.—It is hereby declared the policy of the State
to rationalize and integrate a comprehensive approach in bringing together the academic,
technological, and economic forces which will initiate, promote, sponsor, assist, pursue, support,
and conduct programs, projects, and studies geared towards training, research, development of the
educational promise of affordable technologies and other related sciences of fields of endeavor.

SEC. 3. Center for Leading-Edge Educational Technologies; Creation and Principal
Place of Business.—To implement the State policy and pursue the objectives of this Act, there is
hereby created a non-stock, non-profit, non-sectoral, and non-political body corporate to be known
as the Center for Leading-Edge Educational Technologies (CLEET), hereinafter referred to as the
Center, which shall be organized and operated in the public interest, and to be jointly funded by
both the public and private sector.

The Center shall have its principal place of business in Metro Manila, Philippines: Provided,
however, That the Center may, from time to time, establish and maintain branches in or outside of
the Philippines whenever such action is necessary or requisite in the furtherance of its purposes and

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SEC. 4. Corporate Powers.—Aside from the general powers, rights, privileges, and
attributes allowed or permitted by law, the Center shall have the following powers and functions:

a. To design and develop training programs using leading-edge educational
technologies for knowledge transfer and skills training;

b, To develop training programs using appropriate strategies and media to identified
target audiences;

¢. To prepare and implement an accreditation and equivalency program using
leading- edge educational technologies for students from the informal and non-formal sectors
to enter the mainstream of formal education or the world of work in business and industry;

d. To initiate and conduct seminars, publications, reports, workshops, educational
campaigns, conferences, conventions, fora and symposia on matters, subjects, and topics
pertaining to or involving leading-edge educational technologies significant to practitioners,
teachers, students, and private and public entities;

€. To collect, compile, collate, evaluate, analyze and study activities, data, and
materials pertaining to or involving leading-edge educational technologies and to this end, to
publish or disseminate information through researches, studies, workshops, conferences,
symposia, or for a and other activities of the Center,

£ To review general and specific/disciplinary hardware/courseware tools from
educational perspectives;

g, To develop functional requirements for new educational/training tools;
h. To study the implications of technology for the areas of the curriculum;
i, To legitimize the role of instructional technology in the educational community;

j. To develop prototype tools, software, and educational materials in response to
identified needs;

k. To facilitate the collection and serve as clearing house of literature on leading-
edge educational technologies;


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1. To aid, assist, or coordinate with any individual, corporation, association,
organization or entity, public or private, in the achievement, pursuit and conduct of any or
of the foregoing activities and objectives;

m. To acquire, secure, or obtain by purchase, lease, barter or any other legal means
acquisition such real and personal properties as may be necessary and proper to maintain its
offices or facilities, or to carry out the programs or projects initiated, sponsored or assisted
the Center;

1. To raise and maintain a fund with which to compensate its operating management
and staff and to finance the programs, projects, or undertakings which the Center have
initiated, promoted, or conducted;

©. To receive and accept funds, real or personal properties in the form of donations
and/or grants in the furtherance of the purposes and objectives of the Center;

p. To invest the funds of the Center in such securities of investments as may be

deemed advisable in the furtherance of the objectives and the purpose of the Center, and in
connection thereto, to enter into any all kinds of contracts, arrangements, and undertaking, not
contrary to or prohibited by law, with any person, corporation, or entity;

4. To borrow money or funds or obtain and/or arranged such credit or credit
accommodation as may be required or necessary for its operations, programs, and projects
and in connection thereto to secure the same by the pledge, mortgage, or other lawful
arrangements and;

r. To perform and engage in any and all acts, matters and things, which may be
necessary, proper and convenient for the accomplishment or achievement of the objectives
and purposes of the Center.

SEC. 5. Board of Trustees—The Center shall be governed and its activities shall be

directed, controlled, and managed by a Board of Trustees, which shall be composed of thirteen (13)
members. The members of the Board of Trustees, whom are to serve until their successors are
elected and qualified as provided by the by-laws of the Center, shall be as follows:

a. Secretary, Department of Education (DepEd), Chairman of the Board;

b, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology (DOST);


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. Secretary, Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE);

d. Secretary, Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT);
¢. Chairman, Commission on Higher Education (CHED);

£. Chairman, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA);

g. President, National Public Broadcasting System;

h, President, National Inter-University Forum on Education;

i, Representative, Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry;

j. Representative, Employers Confederation of the Philippines;

k. The Director of the Center, as provided in section (6) of this Act.

In addition, the President of the Philippines shall appoint two (2) representatives
from the academe, who have gained reputations in the education community or academic circles
as outstanding educators.

SEC. 6. Director—There shall be a Director of the Center to be appointed by the President
of the Philippines for a term of four (4) years, and who, aside from being a member of the Board of
Trustees, shall be in charge of the day-to-day operations of the Center.

SEC. 7. Advisory Board.—There shall be created an advisory board whose function is to
assess the current state of the country’s education and education technology, and recommend
policies and measures that will enhance technology adoption and technology transfer.

The members of the advisory board shall be appointed by the President of the Philippines,
and they shall come from both the academic community and the other field of science and
technology. They shall meet at least once every three months, and such other time as may be
requested by the President or as they may deem necessary.

SEC. 8. Appropriations.—The Department of Education (DepEd), the Commission on
Higher Education (CHED), and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority
(TESDA) shall, every year, allocate a portion of their annual budget for the support of the Center.


SEC. 9. Tax Exemptions.—The provisions of existing laws to the contrary notwithstanding,
all gifts, grants, endowments, funds, and such other donations, personal or real, from donors and
company memberships shall be exempt from the donor's or transfer tax.

SEC. 10. Applicable Law.—The provisions of Batas Pambansa Blg. Animnapu’t Walo
(BP. Big. 68,) as amended, otherwise known as the Corporation Code of the Philippines, not
otherwise in conflict with this Act, shall apply in suppletory manner.

SEC. 11. Repealing Clause—All laws, decrees, executive orders or parts thereof
inconsistent with the provisions of this Act is hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

SEC. 12. Separability Clause.—If any part or provision of this Act is declared invalid or
unconstitutional, the other parts not otherwise affected shall remain in full effect and force.

SEC. 13. Effectivity.—This Act shall take effect upon its approval

Approved,