Students urged to enroll in agri, electronics courses

An education official is encouraging high school graduates to enroll in agriculture and electronics courses instead of nursing, information technology, maritime and business courses.

Dr. Candelario Aytona, Commission on Higher Education (CHED-7) assistant regional director, said yesterday that Agriculture and electronics graduates are what’s needed by Central Visayas today.

Aytona said that graduates of these two fields could easily find work.

Aytona said that the CHED issued a moratorium on nursing, information technology, maritime and business courses for graduates.

The CHED has discouraged students to take up these courses because there are more graduates of these courses who still had no jobs.

“There are less job opportunities in the country for these graduates,” he said.

He said that Ched is focusing on their scholarship programs to encourage students to pursue a college education and get a degree.

CHED-7 currently has 1,037 scholars this hear with another 700 pending scholarship applications for the opening of the school year.

Aytona admitted that the scholarship program offered by their office is still on a minimum percentage, but they could not accommodate the growing financial needs of scholars in Central Visayas.

Some of the scholarships programs by CHED are the student financial assistance program, one town one scholar program (which is facilitated by the local government unit), study now pay later program and the congressional scholarships