REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
Second Regular Session

7832

House Bill No.

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

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

Article XIV, Section 1 of the 1987 Constitution expressly states:

“The State shall protect and promote the right of all citizens to quality education at
levels and shall take appropriate steps to make education accessible to all.”

Likewise, Article II, Section 17 of the Constitution declares that:
“The State shall give priority to education, science and technology, arts, culture and
sports to foster patriotism and nationalism, accelerate social progress and promote
human liberation and development.”

In fight with such mandates from the highest law of the land, the State is therefore

compelled to ensure that appropriate safeguards to secure to our people only the highest quality of
professional education are in place. By deterring the perceived decline in the quality of higher
education due to wanton commercialization and shameless inclination of many higher educational
institutions to mere profiteering, this representation envisions a robust Filipino society populated
with only the most competent individuals.

‘Through this Act, continued government accreditation of professional degree courses of

higher education institutions shall rely on the performance of their graduates in professional board
and bar examinations.

In view of the foregoing, approval of this measure is earnestly sought.



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REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
‘Quezon City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
Second Regular Session
832

House Bill No.

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

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 Congress
assembled,

SECTION 1. Short Title—This Act shall be known as the “Professional Examination 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 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 relentless onslaught of commercialization of higher
education institutions whose administrations are more inclined to maximize 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 examinations.


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SEC. 3. Zero-Performance 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 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 (10) 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 to professional courses have been revoked because of zero-

performance in professional licensure examinations.

SEC. 5. Incentives and Awards—The CHED shall provide incentives and/or
awards/recognition 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 the PRC, Supreme Court and other relevant professional organizations.


SEC. 6. Implementing Rules and Regulations.—The CHED in cooperation with the PRC
and the Supreme Court (in case of bar examinations) shalll issue the necessary rules and regulations
for the effective implementation of this Act and shall implement this Act: Provided, that the
implementation of this Act 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 current 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 this 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.—Al\ laws, statutes, issuances, orders and/or presidential
issuances contrary or inconsistent with the provisions of this Act shall is hereby repealed or

modified accordingly.

SEC. 9. Effectivity—This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in at

least two (2) newspapers of general circulation.

Approved,