FOURTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
SENATE 
Senate Bill No. 
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INTRODUCED BY HON. MANNY VILLAR 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
Many institutions of higher learning in the country have deteriorated to an extent 
To arrest this shameful state of the educational system, it is imperative to give 
more powers to the Commission on Higher Education so that they can adequately 
address this problem. The CHED at present suffers from bureaucratic infirmities. More 
leeway and flexibility to its mandate may give it the tools to do something about the 
proliferation of "diploma mills" in the country. 
that they fail to produce passers of national examinations. 
Approval of this Bill is, thus, requested. 
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FOURTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
Senate Bill No. E g f  
INTRODUCED BY HON. MANNY VILLAR 
AN ACT PROVIDING A MECHANISM FOR GENERATING QUALITY GRADUATES 
OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS BASED ON PERFORMANCE IN 
PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE EXAMINATIONS 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in 
SECTION 1. Title. - This Act shall be known as the “Professional Examination 
Congress assembled: 
Zero-Performance Policy Act.” 
SEC. 2. 
Declaration of Policy. - It is hereby declared the policy of the State 
to constantly improve the standards of higher education in the Philippines to ensure that 
students get the best education possible from both the public and private higher 
education institutions. 
In the furtherance of this policy, the State shall likewise provide for appropriate 
safeguards to maintain the high quality of professional education by arresting the 
perceived decline in the quality of higher education brought about by the continued 
onslaught of commercialization of education in higher education institutions whose 
administrations are more inclined to maximize the tuition revenues than the provision of 
a sound and competent higher education. 
The State shall ensure provision of quality and relevant higher education by 
linking continued government accreditation of professional degree courses of higher 
education institutions to the performance of their graduates in the professional board 
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examinations. 


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SEC. 3. 
Zero-fen’ormance Policy. - Government recognition and/or permit 
to operate pertinent and related professional courses by any higher education institution 
whether public or private, whose graduates have registered zero-performance in any 
professional board or bar examination in three (3) out of five (5) consecutive times they 
participated in shall be revoked permanently. 
SEC. 4. 
Publication. - In addition to the usual publication of individual 
examinee results, the various professional examination boards under the Professional 
Regulation Commission (PRC) and the Supreme Court, in case of the bar 
examinations, are hereby required to also publish results in nationally circulated 
newspapers showing the percentage of successful examinees from the higher 
education institutions that participated in the examinations. 
The Commission on Higher Education (CHED), the Professional Regulation 
Commission (PRC) and the Supreme Court (as the case may be), shall jointly publish 
professional examination results in nationally circulated newspapers of the top ten (IO) 
best and worst performing higher education institutions in each of the higher education 
programs with professional licensure examinations. Further, the CHED shall likewise 
be required to publish in nationally circulated newspapers the list of higher education 
institutions whose government recognition and/or permit to operate pertinent and 
related professional courses have been revoked because of zero-performance in 
professional licensure examinations. 
SEC. 5. 
lncenfives and Awards. - The CHED shall provide incentives 
andlor awardslrecognition to higher education institutions which have consistently 
registered best performance for five (5) consecutive years in each of the higher 
education programs with professional licensure examinations. The necessary criteria 
shall be set by the CHED in consultation with PRC, Supreme Court and other relevant 
professional organizations. 
SEC. 6. 
Implementation. - The CHED in cooperation with the PRC, or the 
Supreme Court in case of the bar examination, shall issue the necessary rules and 
regulations for the effective implementation of this Act and shall implement this Act: 


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Provided, That the implementation shall not be later than one (1) academic year after 
the passage of this Act. 
SEC. 7. 
Appropriations. - The amount necessary to carry out the provisions 
of this Act shall be charged against the currents year's appropriations of the CHED 
and/or the Higher Education Development Fund (HEDF). Thereafter, such sums as 
may be necessary for the continued implementation of the Professional Examination 
Zero-Performance Policy Act shall be included in the annual General Appropriations 
Act: 
Provided, That incentives and/or rewards to be given to higher education 
institutions as provided under Section 5, hereof, shall be taken from the HEDF. 
SEC. 8. 
Repealing Clause. - All laws, statutes, directives, orders andlor 
presidential issuances contrary to or inconsistent with the provisions of this Act shall be 
repealed or amended accordingly. 
SEC. 9. 
Rfectivity. - This Act shall take effect after fifteen (15) days 
following its publication in the Official Gazette or in any two (2) newspapers of general 
publication, whichever comes first. 
Approved,