Government to Impose Limit on Number of Students in Nursing
To address the problem of oversupply of nurses, the Philippine government may impose a ceiling on the number of nursing schools and nursing students throughout the country.
The plan of different government agencies to limit the number of college students in a nursing course was disclosed by the undersecretary of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), Carmelito Pineda. Representatives of different government agencies recently held a meeting to discuss ways on how to limit the increasing number of unemployed nurses in the Philippines.
Pineda said, “The Commission on Higher Education was asked to look into a possible limit because we really have an oversupply of nurses at this time. During the discussions, we have learned that a high 20 percent of the 400 schools offering nursing courses nationwide have zero passing rate in the licensure examination,”
According to the undersecretary, a moratorium in the establishment of new nursing schools was implemented in 2004 but it failed to decrease the number of new nursing institutions. As of last year, there are a total of 450 nursing institutions in the country. Read more
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