City Dad meets with colleges, universities’ Presidents throughout Eastern Visayas

By R.G. CADAVOS, PIA Southern Leyte
February 22, 2011

MAASIN CITY  –  Presidents from different private colleges and universities throughout Eastern Visayas Region, met Thursday at the Holy Infant College, Tacloban City to respond to queries concerning each institution and to know its commitment to work for the common good of the society, as a whole.

City Mayor Maloney Samaco, the President of Maasin City College (MCC), as one of the participants during the gathering disclosed in a live interview this morning over radio station DYDM that the meeting focused on the standard and quality of education they can give to the students, performance of board examinations participated by each school, upgrading of systems and services, among other concerned topics.

The body also agreed to put up a Research Department which is one of the bases for standard education, Samaco reported. “For Maasin City College, we will hire one from the Visayas State University (VSU) of Bayabay, Leyte to head the research department,” Samaco said during the “Maasin City in Action” program.

They had also jointly decided to meet quarterly at different venues throughout the region.  While Maasin City was agreed to host on the third quarter of this year, 2011, the city mayor revealed.  There are more than 50 presidents from the colleges and universities in the whole region, he added.

Moreover, the group also suggested creating a consortium in order to share to other schools each expertise, knowledge, resources or to facilitate the same and offer their facilities or equipment during seminars and the like.

Each member-president was also asked to share their ideas and to tie up with other schools that have advance learning, explained the city mayor.  A quality of a broad variety of educational opportunities for learning through its processes can provide the students a quality place of learning.