For making the top 10 list Talisay to honor 2 new teachers

CEBU, Philippines - The Talisay City government will honor two Talisay City College graduates who passed the March 2013 Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET). 

Junnalie Labajo Brago and her fellow TCC graduate, Angielo Labajo Pahamutang, placed 10th in the elementary and secondary levels, respectively. 

City Councilor Dennis Basillote, chairman of the committee on education, said the two graduates deserve to be recognized and lauded because they brought honor to the school.

In the Elementary Level, Talisay City College is the lone school in the list with a total percentage of 90% passing rate. 

Out of 37,117 examinees who took the exam last March, 10, 2013, 10,310 elementary teachers passed (27.78 percent) while 15,223 secondary teachers out of 38,433 examinees or 39.61 percent were successful.

Basillote said it is already the fifth time in a row that TCC placed in the top 10 list.

First district Rep. Eduardo Gullas said the people of  Talisay City must be proud since two of the school’s graduates made it to the top ten list in the recently-concluded Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET). 

Brago, a graduate of Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education major in Special Education, garnered 87 percent rating while Pahamutang, who finished a Secondary Education major in Filipino, got 90.20% in the secondary level exam.

Out of 82 elementary teachers from TCC who took the exam, 74 passed; while out of 148 examinees from the secondary level, only 115 of them passed.

Gullas said he was happy about the results of the exam saying that with the achievements of the TCC’s, the move to convert it into a state university will someday gain support.

Gullas proposes to convert Talisay City College into a state college.

The proposal is already in the Senate and has been approved by the House committee on higher and technical education. 

Gullas said there is a need to convert the existing college into a state college to ensure its fiscal autonomy and enhance its academic standards.

If  the bill is passed into law, not only will TCC become a state college, Gullas said the appropriations and funding for the school would then be shouldered by the national government.

With a budget from the national government, the school would then open more doors to poor but deserving students and would ensure the necessary facility, personnel and instructional materials. 

Under Republic Act 7722 (the Higher Education Act of 1994), which created Ched, the commission is mandated to “rationalize programs and institutions of higher learning and set polices, standards and guidelines for the creation of new ones as well as the conversion or elevation of schools to institutions of higher learning, subject to budgetary limitations and the number of institutions in the province or region wherein creation, conversion or elevation is sought to be made.”  (FREEMAN)