On Mandaue City College Issue

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Ched-7 won’t close M’daue College at sports complex

By Dale G. Israel
Cebu Daily News
First Posted 09:12:00 07/19/2008

THE COMMISSION on Higher Education in Central Visayas (Ched-7) has denied the request of the Mandaue City Council to close down a faction of the Mandaue City College (MCC) that is holding classes at the city’s sports complex.

In a reply letter to the city council, Ched-7 regional director Enrique Grecia said his office had no authority over the MCC.

“It is advised that you address your resolution to the proper authority to facilitate the realization of the request,” said Grecia, without elaborating.

The council's request to Ched-7 stemmed from a letter addressed to Councilor Victor Biaño by former MCC president Paulus Cañete.

Cañete, who still insists he was MCC’s president despite the school board’s actions dismissing him, operates a school that he claims is the true MCC at the Eversley Children’s Sanitarium and General Hospital.

He asked the councilors to close down the MCC at the Mandaue City Sports and Cultural Complex run by Dr. Susana Cabahug, whom the school board appointed as MCC officer-in-charge after Cañete was dismissed.

Cañete’s dismissal was supported by the court.

Meanwhile, Cabahug has submitted an accomplishment report on her MCC to Mayor Jonas Cortes.

Cabahug said there were 149 students enrolled in the MCC.

She also said that the school offered six courses, all accredited by Ched-7.

Most students of the MCC at the sports complex are enrolled in Bachelor in Elementary Education and Bachelor in Secondary Education as well as Bachelor of Science in Information Technology.

“Out of the total number of enrollment, 70 percent are new students, 32 percent are transferees from other schools, while only 20 percent are old students,” Cabahug's report said.

She also said 70 have been organized for the first semester to accommodate the 149 students.

No data were available for the MCC under Cañete.

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sa ato pa si nerissa ug si banyo...err... Biano, complot. .... what you say?

Mandaue councilor faces forgery charges

By Dale G. Israel
Cebu Daily News
First Posted 13:11:00 07/22/2008

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines – Forgery and falsification charges were filed by a Mandaue city government midwife against Mandaue opposition councilor Victor Biano on June 30.

In her affidavit, a copy of which was distributed to media outlets by an anonymous source, midwife Grace Flores claimed that the opposition councilor forged her signature on his daughter’s birth certificate.

In response, Biano alleged that the complaint was the handiwork of Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes and his people.

Flores, who has been a midwife at the Mandaue City Health Office since 1982, alleged that Biano falsified the birthplace of his daughter.

She said the councilor also falsified the date of his marriage.

Flores claimed Biano got married in February 2005. But in his daughter’s certificate of live birth, the councilor claimed he got married in February 1984.

Flores said she assisted in the delivery of Biano’s daughter at their home in Lapu-Lapu City.

After the delivery, she said she prepared the birth certificate to register the child at the Lapu-Lapu City Registry Office.

Flores alleged that she was told by Biano and his wife that they would take care of the registration.

“A week after, I was informed by Atty. Biano that he already registered his newly born child at Cagayan de Oro City,” she said.

Flores said that Biano admitted to her that he forged her signature.

“(He told me) there is nothing illegal about it since the forging of the signature was for registration purposes only,” Flores claimed.

She said she would not have bothered to file the complaint, but she came across a document used by Biano as defense in a child support case in November 2007.

She said the certificate of live birth was used as evidence in the case filed by Calledo.

“I felt aggrieved by the illegal acts of Biano.... since as a lawyer and elected public official of Mandaue City, he should have been the first not to consent to such wrongdoings,” Flores said.

But in a phone interview, Councilor Biano refused to comment on the case as he had yet to receive a copy of the complaint.

“All I know is that Jonas’ mad dogs have been pressuring Grace Flores to sign the complaint with threats of adverse consequences to her employment (in the city government). Taking advantage of her is condemnable),” Biano said.


kani si Banyo...err...Biano, scholar ni ni paulos canete nga batabata ni nerissa. ang Mandaue City College mao'y nag bayad sa iyang 1 yr blocktime contract sa radyo nga sige attake ni Jonas. Gaba na tingali ni no? Unsa imong hunahuna bro?

[mexicanlady]

Malutsan ra gihapon ni niya kasoha ug mag padayon ra gihapon ni siyag lisud lisud sa mayor.Ang angay ani niya niya di na bootaran sa 2010 kay mo run man kaha ni siya as vice ni Nerrissa.Way ayo nga team.Jonas Cortes pa gihapon mi.Bow!

[ngano-diay?]

I doubt ma lusotan ni Banyo. Pero basin ma langan and kaso. With his connections mahimo ni niyang pa dugay dugayon. But we'll see. Hala oi ni resulta na giod ang iyang ka hambugero.

I do hope that land owner would step forward para mo samot ka labad iyang ulo.

[quasimodo]

I do hope that land owner would step forward para mo samot ka labad iyang ulo.

patay na man ang land owner. ang mga surviving heirs ra ang naa. but then, unsa may ikaso nila against biaño?

[ngano-diay?]

Kana diay nga surviving heirs wa diay nay katungod? Maayo nang daklon nang konsabo ni La banyo. Morag ma ka gukod mang gihapon sila ani basta lang ma ka prove sila nga na ilag sila ni la banyo.

[666satan]

wala gihapon mahitabo ani..ky daghan against sa mayor...paet..

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Sunday, August 03, 2008
Suspend 6 in council: Jonas

MANDAUE City Mayor Jonas Cortes asked Malacañang to suspend members of
the council whom he accused of harassing him and more than 1,000
job-order employees of the City Government.

He identified them as Councilors Victor Biaño, Alfonso Albaño Jr.,
Noeleen Borbajo, Procopio Villanueva, Editha Cabahug and Emiliano Rosal.

Three months ago, the six councilors complained before the Office of
the President about Cortes' orders that, they said, broke the law.

Cortes said their preventive suspension will "deter them from doing
any further irreparable damage to the directly affected job-order
employees" and the City Government. He also asked Malacañang to
dismiss their complaint against him.

A preventive suspension is not a penalty, but is sometimes imposed to
keep incumbent officials from interfering with a pending investigation.

The mayor accused the six councilors of dishonesty, oppression, abuse
of authority and misconduct. He also said they violated the separation
of powers between the executive and legislative branches of government.

Cortes, however, did not include in the charge Vice Mayor Carlo
Fortuna and Councilors Diosdado Suico, Beethoven Andaya, Jefferson
Ceniza, Jimmy Lumapas and Sangguniang Kabataan Federation president
Gian Gobalani, who are also linked to the opposition.

According to the councilors' complaint filed last April 30, the mayor
misled the public by saying that the City Council no longer has the
authority to hire personnel because a provision of the Local
Government Code was amended.

Cortes, however, said that the complainants' withholding of the
salaries of job-order employees—by adding a provision in the
appropriation ordinance that requires a council resolution before
funds for salaries are disbursed—constitutes oppression, abuse of
authority and misconduct.

The mayor also charged the complainants with dishonesty for not
mentioning in their complaint the city legal officer's opinion that it
is the mayor who has the "sole and exclusive authority" over human
resources and development in his unit.

Cortes said that if the six councilors are suspended, they won't be
able to coerce him to enforce the "invalid provision" of the
appropriation ordinance.

In their complaint last April 30, Biaño, Albaño, Borbajo, Villanueva,
Cabahug and Rosal accused Cortes of ordering finance officials and
department heads to disregard a provision of the appropriation ordinance.

That provision requires an enabling resolution from the council before
"lump sum funds" can be disbursed.

But the mayor said this constituted interference and usurpation of the
chief executive's function. Requiring this enabling resolution from
the council is a strategy to paralyze his administration's fiscal
management, he said.

The complainant also pointed out the mayor's allegedly wrong
interpretation of Section 77 of the Local Government Code. The two
parties use as basis two different annotated versions of the Local
Government Code.

In the councilors' version, the hiring of employees must be authorized
by the City Council, while in the mayor's version it is the Civil
Service Commission that has that authority. (OCP)

[yankee1264]

M’daue College daghang kalapasan – CHED-7
Ni Bong Soriano
Friday, August 22, 2008
Gipagawas sa Commission on Higher Education -7 ang mga kalapasan sa Mandaue City College kon MCC sa Estancia-Ibabao nga nakita sa mga sakop sa Mandaue City College Inventory Committee team.

Atol sa press conference si Dr. Josefino Ronquillo sa Ched nagkanayon walay opisyal nga record nga nagpakitang mikonsulta ug mi-coordinate kanila nga tukoron ang maong tunghaan nga namugna base sa City Ordinace # 10-2005-324A.

Wala sad kini certificate of compliance sa tanang CHED requirements base sa CHED Memorandum Order (CMO) 32 series of 2006.

Nasuta sad nga walay manual of operations or administrative handbook, students manual ug faculty/employees manual nga gi-aprobahan sa Board of Trustees.

Sa gitanyag nga 12 ka bachelor’s degree programs ang uban niini ladderized curriculum, tulo ka doctoral programs ug 3 ka masters nga walay certificate of authority or compliance gikan CHED, wa say pagtugot gikan sa TESDA ang mga technical courses ug uban pa.

Nasuta usab nga adunay 12 ka mga doctoral graduates ug 28 ka masteral graduates sa milabay’ng Abril 5, 2008 nga walay certificate of compliance ug notisya nga gipadala ngadto sa ilang buhatan.

Apan wala hatagi og bili sa mga opisyal sa MCC ang maong findings ug mihulagway nga bias kini sumala pang Dr. Edgar Agustillo ang Vice President sa MCC.

Gihimakak usab niyang wala ilha sa CHED-7 ang MCC gumikan kay sa milabay’ng Agusto 1, 2008 si CHED 7 Regional Director Dr. Enrique Grecia miluwat og certification nga ang ilang application sa CHED nag-ungot pa kay duna pay inspection nga himoon karong umaabot nga Oktobre 2008.

Mipadayag hinuon ang mga opisyal sa MCC nga didto na nila kini atubangon sa hukmanan o bisan asang moimbestigar nga ahensya.





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Friday, August 22, 2008
Probe finds MCC breaking Ched graduate policies

MANDAUE City opposition councilor Victor Biaño is enrolled in Dr. Paulus Cañete’s Mandaue city college (MCC), the only student in Masters in Public Management class, one of the findings revealed by the inventory committee who called for a press conference yesterday.

Dr. Josefino Ronquillo of the Commission on Higher Education (Ched) and the head of the “Inventory committee” also revealed that at a short span of two years, after it was established, the “old MCC” has produced graduates in doctorate, masters and bachelors degrees. The school even established an extension class in Hilongos town Leyte.

This he said is in violation of Ched Memorandum Order (CMO), but stopped short of recommending an investigation as it is the school’s board of trustees according to him who decide what to do based on the inventory committee’s findings.

And most of their graduates in the masters and doctorate programs said Ronquillo are employees and staff of the school, including Biaño who earned high grades.

Support

Biaño, the council’s majority floorleader and one of the opposition councilors who strongly supported the old MCC.

Ronquillo said there is nothing irregular in having one-on-one student-teacher ratio, referring to Biaño who took 15 units load in the second semester 2007-2008 and 12 units load last summer at the old MCC.

His professors Dr. Cañete gave Biaño 1.2 final grade, Dr. Katrina Cortes gave him 1.3 grade; Dr. Elmer Ripalda gave him 1.2 grade and Dr. Vic Duran gave him 1.1 grade.

Education

Biaño told reporters that he initially took his masters studies in USJR. To satisfy his curiosity and support to MCC he continued his studies in the said school.

But the “new MCC” caretaker Dr Susana Cabahug, who is allied with mayor Jonas Cortes, cited Section 3 of CMO 36 which provided “level lll accreditation of
undergraduate programs, including arts and sciences, shall be a major consideration in granting permits to open new graduate programs…”

She said a school must be five years in continuous operation before earning level l, another five years to earn level ll and another five years to get level lll accreditation.

Memorandum

She also cited another Ched memorandum violated by the old MCC when it opened extension classes in Hilongos Leyte.

CMO 26, policies and guidelines for extension classes stated in No. 3.1, “higher edication institutions with programs and accredited level lll by any of the recognized accrediting bodies in the Philippines… may offer extension classes.”

Ronquillo, Cabahug and some members of the inventory committee called for a press conference yesterday to reveal the committee findings on the college, which was padlocked by mayor Jonas Cortes last summer vacation. (OCP)