All of this because he wanted to be President of this country, a
successor to probably one of the most trusted official ever to set in
Malacanang- Rodrigo Roa Duterte.
Senator Manny Pacquiao, a partymate of the President made public
his intentions when a video of him went viral accusing the Duterte
administration of having corruption 3x more than the previous administration.
After that statement the President in his nationally televised
weekly public address has counter attacked Pacquiao. An alliance between the
two has been tarnished and it seems the opposition will be having a new ally in
the person of the boxing legend.
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Veteran journalist and former ambassador Rigoberto Tiglao
recently wrote in his clumn in the Manila Times (July 5) regarding Pacquiao’s
alleged fake college degree.
Since the senator is gunning for the presidency, we are quoting
it in full, for the public to know, clarity and understanding of the different
issues surrounding such claim.
Please see article quoted below:
Is
Pacquiao's 'college degree' fake?
YES,
it's a bogus degree, at least based on the information so far available, unless
Sen. Manuel Pacquiao and the University of Makati (UMak)
that issued his degree explain otherwise.
In December 2019, Pacquiao was awarded by the UMak a bachelor of
science degree in political science, after a year's study (not three months) at
that institution. UMak's president at the time was Abigail Binay,
also Makati's mayor, after its longtime president Tomas Lopez passed
away in February 2019.
UMak, however, is not authorized to issue the kind of bachelor's
degree that was given to the senator.
Under
existing laws on education, the only way to skirt the four-year course (four
years, because it humanly takes that long to complete the 120 to 130 college
units required) for a bachelor's degree is through the so-called Expanded
Tertiary Education Equivalency and Accreditation Program (ETEEAP).
Authorized
by President Ramos through Executive Order 330 in 1996, the
ETEEAP allows working professionals who were not able to finish college
education to earn a bachelor's degree without going through the traditional
four-year course.
Under this program, professionals with five or more
years of working experience can use the knowledge, experiences and achievements
obtained through their jobs to earn the units required for the college degree
related to their particular field of work.
Abuse
Because of its obvious potential for abuse, given
the proliferation of "diploma mills" in the past, the ETEEAP is
strictly supervised by the Commission on Higher Education with the EO requiring
a technical secretariat "of highly competent individuals with recognized
expertise in alternative learning systems and educational assessment."
One of the most important features of the ETEEAP is
that not just any university can issue degrees through the program. The CHEd
has to authorize a university for doing so, after a strict application process
by the institution. Not only does it authorize a university to issue degrees,
but also for specific degrees. There are at present 96 such accredited
universities, with 12 in the National Capital Region.
The UMak that purportedly issued
Pacquiao's Bachelor of Science in Political Science is not accredited by the
CHEd to undertake the ETEEAP, and therefore has no authority to give Pacquiao a
college degree.
There is only one university in the NCR authorized to issue a
Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science under the ETEEAP, and that is
Polytechnic University of the Philippines; another university, New
Era University, is authorized to confer a Bachelor of Arts in Political
Science.
However, UMak vice president for academic affairs Elxyzur Ramos
in 2019 told a newspaper when the university issued the degree to Pacquiao
"the senator did not get his degree through the ETEEAP."
"Rather, he was enrolled under UMak's own equivalency program for
professionals patterned after ETEEAP in partnership with the Philippine
Councilors League-Legislative Academy."
But a GMA News article in 2019 quoted Pacquiao as saying
"he was thankful for the ETEEAP of the Philippine Councilors
League-Legislative Academy (PCCLA) which gives [a] chance to qualified
Filipinos to attain college degree/diploma - Filipinos who wish to complete
college through informal education."
CHEd
But under our laws, only the CHEd can authorize a university to
undertake any such "equivalency program" of any kind, and it has not
authorized UMak to do so.
It is almost hilarious the UMak vice president and Pacquiao
invoke the legitimacy of its equivalency program by claiming it was in
collaboration with the "Philippine Councilors League-Legislative
Academy." That league is simply the social association of municipal and
city councilors in the country, now so wracked in infighting it doesn't have a
chairman or president at present. No matter its name, there is no registered,
functioning academic institution called the "Philippine Councilors
League-Legislative Academy."
Under our existing laws, there are strict requirements for
universities to issue bachelors' degrees, such as completion of the 120-130
college units of study, which has a required sequence of completion, since over
half of these are "general education courses" necessary for the other
subjects focusing on political science. For example, an advanced course like
"POLSC 131" cannot be undertaken without first passing POLSC 101.
Modules
UMak vice president Ramos claimed "to earn his degree,
Pacquiao had to complete 10 modules for the different clusters of
subjects." He said while "it usually took a month for a student to
finish each module, the senator completed all 10 modules in 16 months."
If it was legitimate, was such a program consisting of modules
also offered to other students?
Whatever that "module" innovation was, the CHEd has
not authorized UMak to undertake such an equivalency program. Philippine
college education, as in most countries, is still based on the college-units
framework.
If CHEd allowed such "equivalency programs" as UMak
claims, one can just imagine the stampede for colleges in the country offering
programs which would allow students to finish a "college degree" in
just one year, rather than four years. I cannot fathom why this UMak "vice
president or academic affairs" seems to be totally ignorant of our
education laws.
Contrast Pacquiao's questionable "college degree" to
the chemical engineering degree given to the business tycoon Lucio Tan in 2008.
First, it was issued by the University of Santo Tomas, which is
accredited by CHEd to undertake the ETEEAP, and specifically for chemical
engineering. Secondly, there was a panel that interrogated him and approved his
application, consisting of officers of the Philippine Institute of
Chemical Engineers, the head, former head and professors of UST's chemical
engineering department.
Was there such a UMak panel in the case of Pacquiao? If there
was, it hasn't been reported all, much less its composition. If there was such
a panel, was it former Vice President Jejomar Binay who headed
it, I wonder.
Insult
For Pacquiao to boast of his "college degree" and for
UMak for issuing it is such a despicable insult to our educational system.
Pacquiao should resign immediately as senator if he cannot prove
his degree is authentic, especially since as a legislator he had made an oath
to defend the Constitution and follow the laws of the land. If it cannot prove
it didn't violate laws on issuing college degrees, the UMak, whose president is
Makati Mayor Abigail Binay, should be closed by CHEd, and its vice president
for academic affairs who claimed Pacquiao got a degree through ETEEAP fired.
There are some 3.4 million students, many of them poor, in our
universities slogging away to complete a college degree in four years. Pacquiao
got to get his questionable degree in one year. He should be ashamed of
himself.
I put the headline of this article in the interrogative mood,
not because I have doubts on my conclusions but only because I still have to
get a response from Pacquiao on this matter, my query sent last Tuesday
acknowledged to have been received by his office. I am also waiting for a reply
on a freedom of information request I have filed asking the CHEd to explain how
UMak got to give Pacquiao a college degree.
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