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PROGRAM PERFORMANCE PROFILE

The objectives of NHERA were the following:

• Improve research capability of HEIs, particularly the Philippine universities
whose main business is to generate knowledge towards international
competiveness
• Enhance research productivity in distinctive areas of competence
• Promote and facilitate dissemination and utilization of research outputs
• Generate knowledge and technologies needed for:
o International, national and regional higher education development
o Policy / plan formulation particularly in higher education

o Developing innovative programs in cutting edge higher education fields
(nanotechnology, biotechnology, information and communications
technology and materials science)
o Advancing the frontiers of knowledge in the disciplines

The research agenda were the following:

1. Improving research capability of HEIs towards international competitiveness
2. Enhancing research productivity of HEIs
3. Generating new knowledge needed for the advancement of higher education as well
as for national development.
4. Promoting and facilitating dissemination and utilization of research outputs

The research priorities were:

• Basic research to generate new knowledge and advance the frontiers in the
various disciplines
• Research to aid policy / plan formulation and implementation particularly in
education
• Research aimed at producing / adapting education technologies and developing
education programs in cutting edge fields
• R and D in aid of national / regional development

The priority discipline clusters were the following:

• Science and Mathematics
• Education and Teacher Training
• Health and health profession
• Information and Communications Technology
• Engineering, Maritime and Architecture
• Agriculture
• Environmental Science
• Humanities
• Social Sciences
• Other disciplines identified by the Commission

Area X: Administration