Four higher education institutions (HEIs) in Iloilo City have been given the green light to hold “limited face-to-face classes” starting on the second semester of the academic year 2020-2021.
West Visayas State University (WVSU), Central Philippine University (CPU), Iloilo Doctors’ College of Medicine, and University of Iloilo (UI) are among the 24 colleges and universities that secured the approval of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED).
“They can now bring their 3rd and 4th year students for hands-on training and laboratory classes in a limited face-to-face system,” CHED Chairman J. Prospero de Vera III said on Friday, March 26.
These 24 schools, according to De Vera, “passed stringent retrofitting and have fully complied with the guidelines of the Department of Health and the COVID-19 Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID).”
“CHED will continue to monitor these HEIs and I am confident that they will provide safe and healthy spaces for their students in the coming months,” he said.
Selected allied health-related degree programs such as Medicine, Nursing, Medical Technology or Medical Laboratory Science, Physical Therapy, Midwifery, and Public Health were prioritized to conduct limited face-to-face classes.
CHED said the move would enable students to achieve key learning outcomes on specialized laboratory courses and hospital-based clinical clerkship/internship/practicum, as well as to provide additional manpower to the country’s health system.IMT
