Ito ang balita kanina. I'm sorry but this decision is another one of those "win-win" BS that doesn't go far enough to rectify the problem.
More from the PDI Editorial:
The decision effectively narrows the scope of the scandal: to Metro Manila and Baguio, and to three review centers. To be exact: to those examinees who attended the “final coaching” sessions of the three review centers.
“The tests that were conducted outside of Manila and Baguio were observed by both the respondents and the NBI [National Bureau of Investigation] to have been clean. The successful examinees thereat are therefore entitled to an immediate oath-taking and license,” the ruling written by Associate Justice Vicente S. E. Veloso read. Additionally, “the Manila and Baguio examinees who did not review at Gapuz, Inress and Pentagon review centers and those who reviewed thereat but did not attend their final coaching” could also take their oath and receive their license immediately.
How can they be sure na hindi kumalat ang leaks na yan sa ibang lugar, outside of Manila and Baguio. Once the leaks are out, it's pretty easy to pass the info around. Ever heard of EMAIL?
Once the genie is out of the bottle, it's hard to put him back in.
A reviewer admitted to this back in Oct 7:
Davao reviewer says nursing board cheating was nationwide
A NURSING board reviewer from Davao City on Saturday corroborated reports that cheating in the June 2006 nursing licensure examination (NLE) was nationwide.
Daryl Joel "Butch'' Dumdum, a registered nurse and former nursing professor, said he got information that NLE test questions were also leaked in the cities of Davao and Tacloban.
Dumdum, who said he is now a reviewer for a review center after quitting a teaching job at the Davao Doctors College, said a certain review center which has branches in Davao City and other parts of the country offered tests questions to a dean in a Davao City nursing school a day before the June 11 and 12 NLE.
“The dean who is also teaching the subject (of the leaked questions) was offered a leakage by a review center. She refused to take it,'' Dumdum told the Inquirer by phone.
Dumdum said one of his students relayed the information to him just a week ago. He said the same review center, which he did not yet want to identify, could have also given the questions to its examinees in other areas.
Dumdum said he learned of another leakage in Tacloban.
“I called an ally from Tacloban and he said there was also a leakage there,'' Dumdum said.
Dumdum said he was convinced that the leakage of the NLE questions reached not only Manila, Baguio and Davao but also other parts of Mindanao and the Visayas as pointed out by Rene Luis Tadle, president of the faculty association of the University of Sto. Tomas College of Nursing.
“The leakage is everywhere. It's simple logic because the review centers in Luzon have branches in the Visayas and Mindanao,'' Dumdum said, adding he was willing to help investigators.
"I will disclose the information I have (to the NBI),'' Dumdum said.
Dumdum said he came forward to support efforts to restore the integrity of the nursing profession.
Although he backtracked from his statements a little bit the next day. "Hearsay" lang raw yung sinabi niya. siguro takot lang magsalita yung mga taong nagbigay sa kanya ng information. Or somebody must have gotten to him. We've seen this before when hostile witnesses vs this arroyo admin gets intimidated and pressured to recant, like the mahusay, the vidal doble and the rashma hali.
I think a full retake will benefit the nursing graduates and the nursing industry in the long run by removing the cloud of suspicion over their heads.
but when you have a president with no credibility to lecture us re cheating, I guess the only thing she can do at this point is flip flop and give in.
UPDATE: Int’l community wary over nursing leak mess
The controversy brought about by the nursing licensure examinations leakage last June is now creating a stir within the international community, particularly to foreign countries known as top destinations of Filipino nurses.
Labor Secretary Arturo Brion yesterday revealed that some foreign governments that hire Filipino nurses are “monitoring” the developments on the nursing exam scandal and that the European Union (EU) and Japan have expressed “concern” over the issue.
A representative of the Japanese embassy had paid Brion a visit while the Philippine labor attaché in Belgium called him up Tuesday night, both inquiring, on behalf of the foreign governments concerned, on the status of the matter and how the Arroyo administration is addressing the controversy.
PDI Editorial: The Wrong Treatment
Money Quote:
And yet the scandal was wearying partly because the administration’s inept and irresolute handling made it so. The stakes were as high as they could go, with serious consequences for both critical institutions (the health care system, the labor export market) and a mass of dedicated, highly educated individuals (some 17,000 new nurses). And yet the administration acted in a baffling way: at first it took its time, then refused to cooperate with congressional inquiries, then it ordered a retake, then took back the order, and then it watched while various officials bickered. The self-defeating behavior continues, with the NBI detecting a pattern of leaks over the years and yet, confusingly, praising the PRC.
That is what happens, when even a nursing scandal is treated by the doctors of politics. The plea to “move on” is thus merely an appeal—made familiar in other crises, in other contexts—to forget.
UPDATE: Malacanang orders PRC to suspend nurses’ oath-taking
What a mess.
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