2. State Universities and Colleges
•Our state colleges and universities are
people’s educational institutions.
•It is through out SUCs that our young
people hope to gain access to good
education at affordable costs.
•This makes even more imperative for
the SUCs to maintain their quality of
education.

3. Accrediting Agency of Chartered Colleges
and Universities in the Philippines
•Helps to ensure the quality of
education needed by our graduates to
make them competitive within our
national boundaries and beyond.
•Its role is ensuring that our SUCs
remain competitive and relevant is very
important in the light of increasing
global competitiveness.

4. Education is the key to sustaining growth and reducing
poverty.

5. House of Representatives
•The role of the House of
Representatives is to ensure that
adequate and relevant legislation is to
put in place to help you and our
educational institutions to perform you
respective roles in educating people.

6. Has set forth a legislative agenda, which
hopes to address the most immediate
needs of the higher education sector.

7. Files that have been filed in this 14th Congress.
Some that may be more relevant to the AACCUP.

8. 1. Open or Distance Learning
2. Ladderized Education
3. Continuing Teacher Education
4. Amending the UP Charter (priority)

9. 5. Student assistance or loans
6. English as a medium of instruction
7. Revision of CHED charter
8. Promotion of Science and Technology

11. The need for immediate employment often dictates
the choice of courses.
Thus, the need for distance learning and an efficient
and effective ladderized education which will provide
more Filipinos the opportunity to access higher
levels of education and skills not initially available to
them due to limited opportunities.

12. Rep. Reno Lim
HB no. 1928 or An Act Institutionalizing
the Open Electronic Learning School
System in the Philippines
Use of alternatives means of
instruction such as print,
radio, television and other
multimedia learning and
teaching technologies that
allow students to study on
their own without having
attend class in the
conventional classroom set-up.

14. Teachers bear the responsibility of educating
our youth. We therefore have to equip them
with the necessary knowledge and skills to
keep them abreast with global trends and let
them stay away ahead of their students.

15. Rep. I. Arroyo filed HB 113 and 1870
seek to institute training program for
teachers in the tertiary level to
upgrade their competence as this will
contribute in improving the quality of
the tertiary education in the country.

16. HB 1576 seeks to establish a Center for
Teachers’ Excellence in all legislative
districts throughout the country. The
purpose of such centers is to conduct a
continuing program to upgrade the
teaching skills and competence of all
teachers.

18. The proposed bill aims to strengthen UP as the
national university in the country, amending for
the purpose its archaic 1908 Charter and
subsequent amendatory law.
As UP celebrates its centennial anniversary,
the bill is foreseen to usher the university into
its next century with new Charter that will
make UP more adaptable, more relevant and
even more globally competitive.

19. In brief, the bill emphasizes the
values of academic freedom,
excellence, social responsibility,
democratic participation and
access, ethics and autonomy as
guiding principles in the life of UP.

20. It provides for better
competitive pay teachers and
income opportunities for the
university through lease but in
sale for its real properties.

22. In the view of the
limitations and
inadequacy of the existing
scholarships programs of
the government. Study
grants for members of the
indigenous communities

23. •Filed by Rep. Puentavella
•The bill provides that each
LGUs can initiate a Student
Loan Program by the
passage of local ordinance
creating a Student Local
Fund to be administered
jointly by their local school

24. • Rep. R. Rodriguez
•It seeks to establish an enhanced educational
assistance program could increase the
prospects of poor but deserving students of
acquiring quality education and training needed
to uplift not only the quality of the lives of their
families but their communities as well.

25. •Rep. M. Teodoro
•It seeks to assist and support
poor but deserving students
wanting to pursue a post-
secondary education through
the strengthening of the Study-
Now-Pay-Later.

26. Use of English as a Medium
of Instruction

27. The bills propose that we regain the mastery
of the English language and improve the total
The Medium of in our schools,in all subject
learning process Instruction especially in
taught shall be as follows:
our public schools to ensure better education
for the Filipino students enhance their
competiveness in the global arena.

28. English, Filipino, or the
regional/native language maybe
used as medium of instruction in all
subjects from pre-school-Grade 2.

29. English and Filipino shall be
taught as separate subjects
in all levels in the
elementary and secondary.

30. In all academic subjects in the elementary
grades from Grade 3 to Grade 6 and in all
levels in the secondary, the medium of
instruction shall be English.

31. In the tertiary level, the current language
policy as prescribed by CHED shall be
maintained.

32. Promotion of Math, Science, and
Technology

34. Rep. del Mar
HB No. 442 or Act establishing for free
College Education in Information and
Communication Technology and other
purposes
Rep. Plaza
HB. No. 553 is an Act providing
for the establishment of a
National Scholarship Program
for College Students in Science
and Technology Curses in
Every Municipality in every
province of the country.

36. Over the past years, CHED has experienced difficulty in the
execution of its function due to its limitations. Thus, there
is a need to rationalize the authority of the Commission to
considering the various challenges that it faces today.