Editorial
Pangasinenses are again on top!
Remember Pangasinense Joan de Venecia who recently topped the bar exams? Well, here’s another one to crow about. The name is Gringo de Guzman San Diego, topnotcher in the recent nurses’ licensure examination.
Yet, the last time we looked into the controversy stirred by the Commission on Higher Education involving the standard of nursing education in the country, the forecast for graduates of universities and colleges in Pangasinan appeared dim and gloomy. In fact, an erroneous news report even pictured Lyceum Northwestern University as having been sanctioned for its low percentage in passing licensure exams.
The results of the 2006 licensure examinations not only came as a vindication particularly for LNU but for all major universities and colleges in the province. LNU produced three of the passers who made it to the top ten grades but the wresting of the top slot by Gringo de Guzman San Diego, a graduate of the University of Pangasinan, takes the cake. He and another UPang graduate took honors for the city’s oldest university.
All told, the province’s major nursing schools produced 479 registered nurses this year.
If there’s anything that these numbers indicate, the province is well on the way of regaining its position as the premier educational center for nurses in the region. There is much to be done and a lot certainly depends on the colleges and universities’ management commitment to their vision of excellence by setting higher standards for their students.
We join the province in congratulating the successful examinees, their proud parents and their equally pleased professors, tutors and alma mater.
Above all, we offer a toast to the University of Pangasinan and the Lyceum Northwestern University for their latest feat in the race to academic excellence.
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