City of San Fernando La Union
Graduate College
Country: Philippines
Title: Long-Term Higher Education Development Plan (1996-2005)
Institution: Commission on Higher Education
Descriptors: Higher education; Educational objectives.
Full text: GOAL 2 - RELEVANCE AND RESPONSIVENESS Generation and diffusion of knowledge in the broad range of disciplines relevant and responsive to the dynamically changing domestic and international environment. Objectives 1. Encourage HEIs to improve or enrich higher education curricula and undertake educational innovations or reforms to cope with the emerging needs and demands of a newly industrializing country; 2. Support higher education programs which are relevant and responsive to national and international developments; 3. Provide attractive incentives for students to pursue scientific, engineering and technology programs and other programs related to the strategic needs of the country; 4. Provide opportunities for students to develop their learning capacity, leadership potentials, and desirable attitudes and values; 5. Strengthen and expand the scope of HEI's placement programs to ensure employment of graduates and promote entrepreneurship; and 6. Modernize instruction, facilities and equipment of HEIs offering priority programs. Policies and Strategies 1. Provision of incentives to support creativity and innovation among HEIs; 2. Provision of assistance in the improvement of the delivery of higher education services; 3. Development and adoption or replication of tested non-traditional approaches to higher education to better serve the emerging demands of the differenct sectors; 4. Institutionalization of cooperative industry-academe linkages in the planning and program development of HEIs; 5. Provision of