Human resources associates are saying that there are existing academic programs that are non-generating but abolishing it is not that easy.
People Management Association of the Philippines (PMAP) Davao chapter vice president Roland Suico said that it is difficult to abolish a certain program that is running based on a business perspective.
Suico, a former tertiary education professor, said that although the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) conducts a national study on academic programs that based on demand, school owners ignore the findings as long as the course is still “profitable”.
“For as long as there are still many takers, enrolees and the program is still sustainable, they would opt to keep it, because they invested it already, especially those programs that are required with laboratories and other machineries,” Suico said on Tuesday.
He also said that abolishing certain courses would also take time in the same manner as when these institutions applied for accreditation on a certain course. The abolishing and accreditation of a program must be coursed through CHED.
“We suggest that school owners should sit down with us and with CHED to strategize how to abolish or integrate certain existing courses and programs,” Suico said.
PMAP is a non-profit organization with over 1,800 member companies and individual practitioners engaged or interested in human resource/industrial relations work.
In a previous report, Dr. Raymund P. Arcega, president of the Association of Local Colleges and Universities Commission on Accreditation (ALCUCOA), higher education institutions (HEIs) in Davao and elsewhere in the country should revise their courses and retain only those that offer greater chance of employment.
Arcega also urged to revise curriculums on certain courses in order to be “responsive to the needs of the economy.”
