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PROGRAM PERFORMANCE PROFILE

3. To enable public higher education institutions to become knowledge, technology and
innovation centers, and
4. To institutionalize ethical and innovative governance

The initiatives to be done are the following:

1. Expand financial support for the poor and disadvantaged but college-ready students
2. Broaden access to higher education through non-conventional delivery schemes
and learning pathways
3. Enhance provisions for student support and development
4. Enrich the curricula of program offerings through world or work
5. Intensify program-level and institutional-level quality assurance and improvement
6. Strengthen research development and extension functions
7. Promote development of academic and non-academic personnel
8. Undertake internationalization initiatives
9. Upgrade graduate education programs
10. Establish / sustain COEs and CODs
11. Develop capacity and provide the enabling policy environments for conduct of high-
end R and D
12. Amalgamation: promote and undertake regional unification / complementation
initiatives
13. Professionalize institutional management through capability building and
professional enhancement
14. Cross-cutting initiatives: strengthen multi-sectoral partnerships for education,
research, innovation and governance.

The policy priorities:

• Progressive free tuition and other fees for students from the lowest two quintiles
• ROTC Bill
• Magna Carta for students
• Revision / replacement of NBC 461
• Regional unification / amalgamation bills
• Adoption of revised organizational standards for SUCs
• Professionalization of SUCs/LUCs Management – Institutionalization of
PhilHECS

ENHANCING THE MOBILITY OF FILIPINOS IN THE ASEAN AND THE WORLD
Dr. Adolfo C. Manuel, Jr.
Director, Quality Assurance and Accreditation Center

Dr. Adolfo C. Manuel, Director for Quality Assurance and Accreditation Center presented the
ASEAN and Philippine Qualifications Framework. He started his talk by presenting the overall
conceptual framework and the ASEAN Mutual Recognition Agreements (MRAs).

The objectives of the MRAs:

Area X: Administration