BALANGA CITY – The president of the Bataan State Peninsula University (BPSU) has categorically denied the claim of a parent who allegedly exposed the arrangement with a leading nursing review school in Metro Manila “as unconscionable in this hard times” that graduating students of the College of Nursing here are obliged to pay P10,000 each for the November to April review classes.
Dr. Delfin Magpantay , BPSU president, told The STAR that there are no legal basis for the alleged parent to assail the integrity and community service rendered by Trinity University of Asia, one of the leading nursing schools in the country, to serve the poor but deserving students, mostly sons and daughters of marginal fishers, farmers and low-income earners from Bataan for the forthcoming Nursing Board Examinations.
Magpantay said “we are charging only P6,000 while privately run review centers compared to schools in Bataan and Metro Manila charge fees ranging from P15,000 to P20,000.”
Magpantay said that a package deal for a graduating class of 900 students next year has been negotiated by the management to a consistent topnotch nursing school in Manila to ensure that BPSU nursing graduates’ performance level and review classes are always the best.
Records show that BPSU is listed as one of the top nursing schools in Central Luzon and the country since the College of Nursing and Midwifery was introduced 19 years ago at the Bataan Community College. – Raffy Viray