UNIVERSITY RATING AND RANKING: the clients which are

ACCEPTANCE AND REJECTION students, parents among

other stakeholders.
In this topic, we will
come across the terminologies Therefore:
and phrases such as:
 A sound minded student,
 Rating parent/s will choose an
 Ranking institution of learning
 Value that is of higher
standards to assure that
 Quality
their children will learn
 Acceptance at its utmost.
 Informed decision
 Clients  Universities and Colleges
 Stakeholders who proved to have
 Benchmarking benchmarked quality will
proceed to the top of the
Note: Please pay attention to list of the ratings while
the said terminologies and those who did not will be
phrases as we try to explain at the bottom.
the topic at hand.
Q: In the Philippines, who are
It is given here that in charge of looking into the
Universities and Colleges are processes of accreditation?
given due ratings. Hence, they
will be either accepted or A: The Commission of Higher
rejected. With these, we can Education (CHED), together
safely conclude that with other Autonomous and
Universities and Colleges are Accredited institution. These
not equal in standing in terms said institutions:
of imparting education as well
as giving other services.  Has the rosters of Center
of Excellence (CODs) and
Q: The question here is: Who Center of developments.
will accept them? Reject them?  Guides the SUC on the
A: The accrediting proper interpretation of
institutions Quality and/or value in
Education.
Q: What is the purpose of  Develop instruments (Some
Rating/Ranking universities sort of Rubrics or
and Colleges? checklist) for ranking
Answers: Higher Education
Institutions.
 Universities and Colleges  Refine the said
are being rated and instrument used for
ranked based on quality evaluation of SUCs
or value. That is, how
they teach, how they Aside from CHED, other
deliver the goods of evaluating (third party)
education along with institutions for Higher
other ancillary services Education institutions in
thereof. existence includes:
 ISO
 Ratings derived from the  Malcolm Baldridge award
standards of “Accrediting
 Asiaweek Best
Institutions” that will
Universities Survey
result to “informed
decision making” among
  McLean’s List Annual making informed
Ranking of Universities. decisions.
 U.S. News & World Rerport 6. Evidence from variety of
sources said that the
 Times Higher Education
impact of ranking is not
Supplement
pronounced as commonly
Q: How do we measure academic believed.
Excellence? And, what are the
values that govern measuring II. Concerns of the
achievement? Philippine Association of
Colleges and
A: These are: Universities:
1. Resources PACU mentioned that
 Physical Resources like it may be difficult for CHED
presence of state of the to design a comprehensive
art facilities and evaluation instrument
equipment that can fairly account
 Human Resources like for the multiplicity of
faculty-student ratio, organizational forms, the
number of faculty range of educational
members with Ph.D. missions and variety of
2. Reputation educational challenges
 Numbers of students who that Philippine Higher
became successful Educational Institutions
 Ability to compete with assume.
other universities in III. Wolf and Astin, 1990
existence. argued:
Questions and Controversies of
University rating and Ranking. 1. Assessment can be used to
promote talent
I. Professor Rainer Kunzel development.
(2000)rebuts the 2. By becoming aware on the
pertinence of ranking, impact [of ranking] on
using international students, the
context and states that: universities will be able
1. Differences in ranked to recognize their full
positions can be potential.
statistically
insignificant. The “Many but One” argument:
2. List of “best” schools
 Since the Human Society
are worthless unless the
is heterogeneous and
criteria of valuation is
diverse, these
non arbitrary.
characteristics to a
3. Existence of ranking
great extent should
system may trigger
determine how education
Universities to boost
should be assessed. It
their scores in
follows that what is “the
misleading and
best school” for one may
exaggeration
not be for the other.
4. With diverse culture,
politics, and conceptual  We will inevitably come
differences, it is to that point where unity
impossible to devise an of measures on standards
internationally accepted in education can be
ranking system. attained in due time.
5. Ranking are not very This is because of the
helpful to students in advent of globalization
 and technological 4. All the unregistered Review
advancement. Centers had been banded by
The Review Center
The More Than What We Are, to Association of the
become argument: Phuilippines.
 Ratings of a university
may fluctuate; what is
really important is the LEGACY OF EDUCATIONAL REFORMS
provision for The Arroyo
improvement Administration- Compared to
 There must be an ethical its predecessors- has the
code in evaluating the biggest number of reforms
rank of Universities and aggressively pursued to
Colleges. enhanced educational reforms
due to increased budgets in
WHO WOULD PROTECT THE BOARD education.
REVIEWERS? 1) Curriculum Restructuring
SCENARIO: focusing on five learning
areas like: Filipino,
1. There has been fraud, scam English, Math, Science,
and Staffa as regards to and Makabayan.
review and registration of 2) Ladderized Education
applicants for board Exam. Program (LEP) which
provided equivalency
pathways.
Northcap Review
3) Classroom Constructions; a
Center has solicited
total of 102 classrooms are
1,500.00 Php among
build from 2001 to 2009.
1,067 Review
4) 97 percent of the public
scheduled for
schools are operating in
examination on June
double shift or triple
1-2 but they did not
shift.
review nor register
5) 5,396 out of 6,650 schools
the prospective
has been provide with
nurses. The reviewers
computers
did not know who to
6) 724,143 slots for
sue regarding this.
scholarship
2. The leakage of the supposed
7) 201,319 traings for DepEd
item for examination for
Personnel
Nursing o June 2016.
8) Increase of Salary of
Teachers from 9,939.00 Php
 CHED as a response to to 14,198.00 php
this matter pushed
for accreditation of BRITONS ANGRY WITH LAWMAKERS’
the Review Centers GREED
and even extended it
to May 2008 that would I. Britons has been seething
make the system fair anger over a scandal
and Prevent another involving members of the
“Nothcap like” Parliament faking claims
scenario and they have made on public
“Leakage” scenario. purse
3. On September of 2006,  MP who claimed a
President Arroyo had mortgage subsidy of a
directed the CHED to put all house he already
the Review Centers under its owns.
wings
  A rich MP who had the Note: this is to boost their
moat around his house competence and avoid losing
cleaned and the bill from other foreign companies
paid for by the The argument that arouse due to
taxpayers this:
 Several who charged
embarrassing personal  American Government is not
items for supposed to come in and
reimbursements bail out the losers under
the rules of free market
II. Gasoline prices has risen system in America’s free
over GBP1 or P72-75 a market system although the
liter depending on situations are extreme.
exchange rate. The
Government are Note: This isn’t even
deliberately doing this Socialism because socialism is
to deliver conservation supposed to be fair. This is
message and it is power politics… Something that
working. the American car industry and
their labor union are very good
at.
IS AMERICA TURNING SOCIALIST
Socialism, economic and SMALL WORLD
social system under which
essential industries and We are living in a small
social services are publicly world where distance has been
and cooperatively owned and bridged, and time abbreviated.
democratically controlled with  People everywhere are no
a view to equal opportunity and longer separated by land
equal benefit for all. The term and ocean. We have become
socialism also refers to the seatmates gawking
doctrine behind this system simultaneously at
and the political movement television or internet as
inspired by it. (Microsoft we surf.
Encarta ® 2009)
 Although we still look at
John Mccain’s worst heaven as our destiny,
nightmare about America advertisers promise a new
turning socialist is coming Earth that will provide all
true. But he cannot balme the necessities,
Barack Obama for it. It is tranquilize all anxieties,
happening in the tail end of and eliminate all
George W. Bush’s term. conflicts.
 Knowledge and Information
 The big banks got are just a few clicks away.
government money to boost
their capital because However, we must think that God
“they are too big to fail” has blessed us with big,
 And, by the end of the wondrous Earth to unravel. Let
week, agreement could be us now allow television and
reached for a lot more of internet to transform it into
the American Taxpayer’s small world, fit for people who
money to be risked badly think little.
ailing American car
industry.
REDEFINING THE ROLE OF
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
Should be role of Catholic OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, USE AND
Schools according to COMMERCIALIZATION OF
Authorities: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
GENERATED FROM RESEARCH AND
1) Cardinal Ratzinger said the DEVELOPMENT FUNDED BY
following: GOVERNMENT AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES
There is no more
evangelization. However, we From rank 71 the
can see progressive process Philippines has the latest
of deChristianization and rank of 87 out of 134 Countries
the loss of essential human according to Global
values, which is worrysome. Competitiveness index
A large part of today’s published by World Economic
humanity does not find the forum. Note that, the national
gospel in the permanent productivity and growth of the
evangelization of the said top countries are backed
Church. Therefore, the by their advancement in
Church must focus on research and development that
educating the people on “HOW is brought about by the said
TO LIVE” or to teach the research endeavor.
Christian art of Living.
 Currently, only an estimated
2) Pope John Paul mentioned the 10 percent of University
role of the Catholic Schools Research output are being
in countering translated to industry
deChristianization: because of intellectual
property issue. This
Missionary Activity is a explains in large part why
matter for all Christians. the Philippine ranking in
This implies that in addition technology transfer trails
to knowledge and skills behind its Asian Neighbors.
formation that our schools  Mechanisms and policies for
attend to, there should be a Technology transfer are:
corresponding effort to
develop among students a 1) Royalty sharing that is
“missionary spirit” to enable more attractive to
them to become extensions of government supported
the Chruch. innovators.
3) The Canon Law states that: 2) Supporting
entrepreneurship among
Education must pay regard scientist and
to the formation of the whole researchers.
person, so that they may attain 3) Allowing government
their eternal destiny and at scientist and
the same time promote good to researchers to work in
society. Children and young both public and private
persons are therefore to be industries without
cared for in such a way that violating the code of
their physical, moral and ethics for public
intellectual talents may officers.
develop in harmonious manner 4) Creating revolving fund
that they may attain a greater where income from
sense of responsibility and commercialization of
right use of freedom, and be government-funded
formed to take an active part research used to again
in social life. drive research and
development.
 5) Mandating the
Department of Science
and Technology to
rationalize policies
and procedures for the
cost effective sharing
and access to
government funded
research.

Prepared by:

Peter Philip. M. Perez

DWC San Jose MA (Cand.)