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Most Filipinos look at education as their passport to greener pastures and better life. Parents work themselves to the bones or even sell their properties just to financially support the college education of their children. They usually choose courses that lead to well paying jobs both here and abroad. Hence in the past years, more students take up courses that are in demand.
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The 17,000 passers of the June 2006 nursing licensure examinations should face the reality the United States Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS) would not be reversing its decision to deny them Visa Screen certificates despite strong appeals from the Philippine government, a Malacañang official said.


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Most Filipinos trust the nurses who passed the June 2006 leakage-tainted exams, but acknowledge the uncertainty of their job prospects abroad as a result of the scandal, the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed.


The SWS survey, conducted last year, showed that most Filipinos believed in the nurses’ competence but were resigned to the likelihood of fewer work opportunities abroad for them.


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The government is considering financial and other forms of assistance to nursing graduates who passed the board examination in June last year but may have to retake it because some of the examinees cheated. Retaking the examination will give the graduates a better chance of landing a nursing job in the United States, where demand for Philippine nurses had been high until the cheating scandal rocked the board examination.


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The government will accede to the request of the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS) to let the passers of the June 2006  leakage-tainted licensure examination retake the test so they can obtain visas to the United States, President Arroyo said yesterday.


The Visa Screen certificate is required for tests leading to the practice of nursing in the US.


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