SC stops CHEd policy on Filipino
THE Supreme Court has stopped the Commission on Higher Education from implementing its memorandum that excludes Filipino and Panitikan as core courses from the curriculum for college.
The High Court issued a temporary restraining order enjoining CHED from implementing its Memorandum No. 20, which prescribes the new General Education Curriculum for college.
The memorandum reduced the GEC to a minimum of 36 units and excluded Filipino and Panitikan in the core courses.
SC spokesman Theodore Te stressed that the TRO is effective immediately.
The petitioners – National Artist for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera and party-list representatives Antonio Tinio (Alliance of Concerned Teachers), Fernando Hicap (Anakpawis), and Terry Ridon – earlier argued that the CHED order violated constitutional provisions on the national language, Philippine culture, nationalist education, and labor policy.