2 out 3 HS grads
found unfit for college DepEd: They are better
off pursuing technical courses
ALMOST two-thirds of the 1.35 million
graduating high school students who took the first National
Career Assessment Examination on January 17 lacks the scholastic
aptitude to pursue college education, the Department of
Education said yesterday.
DepEd said the results of the examination
showed that 468,901 students or 35.93 percent have moderate
aptitude for tertiary education.
It said 711, 526 students or 54.51 percent of
the takers showed an aptitude for technical or vocational
courses. It said nearly half of students in this category or
33,444 showed very high scores of 98 to 99 percent. At least
2,000 examinees registered superior aptitude for
vocational/technical courses.
EXECUTIVE Secretary Eduardo Ermita yesterday
said while President Fidel Ramos is entitled to his opinion that
political dynasties are undesirable, nothing bars members of one
family from holding on to elective posts in the absence of an
anti-dynasty law.
"Hindi natin sila mapapag-bawalan. It’s the
free choice of persons to be in business, in politics. Hindi
natin sila mapipigilan… Hindi natin masasabi na huwag gawin," he
said.
He said the constitutional ban on political
dynasties need an enabling law.
JUSTICE Secretary Raul Gonzalez yesterday
said detained Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo could not invoke the
amnesty declaration issued by President Corazon Aquino 20 years
ago in his bid to be released from jail.
Gonzalez and Executive Secretary Eduardo
Ermita said Ocampo should show evidence he availed for himself
of the amnesty offered in 1987.
Ermita said there is no record of Ocampo
applied for amnesty.
"Sa ngayon ang alam ko, hindi, wala kasing
matataas na miyembro ng Communist Party of the Philippines ang
nag-apply for amnesty," he said.
