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INTRODUCED BY HON. MANUEL B. VLLAR JR. 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
Many institutions of higher learning in the country have deteriorated to an extent that they 
fail to produce passers of national examinations. As of late, at least 11 schools and colleges failed 
to produce graduates who passed national licensure examinations in accountancy, civil 
engineering, nursing, midwifery, and law. 
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. 
Approval of this Bill is, thus, requested. 
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First Regular Session 
SENATE 
INTRODUCED BY HON. MANUEL B. VELAR JR. 
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: 
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Title. - This Act shall be known as the “Professional Examination Zero- 
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Performance Policy Act.” 
SEC. 2. 
Declaration ofpolicy. - It is hereby declared the policy of the State to constantly 
improve the standards of higher education in the Philippines to ensue 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 examinations. 
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 


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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 (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 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 
awarddrecognition 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: 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 and/or presidential 
issuances contrary to or inconsistent with the provisions of this Act shall be repealed or amended 
accordingly. 
SEC. 9. 
Effectivity, - This Act shall take effect after fifteen (1 5) days following its 
publication in the OfJiaZ Gazette or in any two (2) newspapers of general publication, 
whichever comes first. 
Approved,