Retake of the 2006 Nursing Exam

In a bid to redeem the sullied integrity of the country’s nursing profession and the professional licensure examinations, President Arroyo has ordered a retake of the June 2006 nursing tests which were earlier marred by leakage.
Read the news. (Update: Nevermind reading that Manila Bulletin article. It’s broken. I think their server can’t handle old articles. That’s what you call a newspaper of national circulation. After you read the paper, you throw it away. They thought the same is applicable in online publication! How pity!)

In a way, maybe. But the question is why it took the President too long to decide on this matter? The exam was in June, and her order comes in September? Okay, maybe she was awaiting the result of the investigation (by the NBI?). Now another question arises, “What was the result of the investigation?” Why don’t they make it black and white. Did the investigation proved that there was indeed a leakage or otherwise?

Looking deeper into this matter, has this practice been happening before? And since when?

In order to restore public confidence in new nursing graduates as well as the conduct of the licensure exams in the country, there has got to be a clear result, a vantage point at which we (Filipinos and foreigners alike) can share a common perspective on this incident. From then on, we can form our own opinion and judgment.

Fortunately, this did not happen to the accountancy profession…(knock on wood!)

4 Comments

mike September 28, 2006 Reply

pre, ayos yan.

kamusta mo ko kay rejesh gufta….hehehehe

Update mo yung resume mo at ipadala mo sa akin.

deuts September 28, 2006 Reply

Hehehehe. Close ba kau nun? nag resign na sya last week effective. Lipat sya EY Melbourne ata un if i’m not mistaken….

Jaypee October 11, 2006 Reply

this is not the first time it happened, this has happened lots of times before. i’ve heard that they’re gonna ask only those from Luzon to retake the exams, which is unfair. if there will be a retake, everyone should do it. and the most important thing of all, they should go after the party involved with the “leakage”, the ones who provided the test answers. i’m sure there was an inside job.

btw, good post. have a nice day!

deuts October 11, 2006 Reply

Thanks for dropping by. Yeah, if GMA found that there was indeed a leakage, she should at least present the culprit and demonstrate justice upon the perpetrator/s and the victims.

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