BSNursing - Ladderized Education Program

Ladderized Education Program is a new system of education in the Philippines that alows learners to progress between Technical - Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and College, and vice versa. This is embodied in Executive Order 358 promulgated by President Gloria Macapagal - Arroyo on September 15, 2004, providing the mandate and legal framework for wider scale and accelerated implementation of Ladderized Education nationwide.

Under the ladderized system of education, there are two ways by which a student can transfer or move between Tech-Voc and College education. First is Credit Transfer for Tech-Voc to College and Articulation. This refers to the recognition and carrying forward of overlapping learning from Tech-Voc to College. A credit transfer system allows the tech-voc graduate to earn credit units for his tech-voc courses. Thus, the tech-voc graduate readily articulates to a College degree program with ease.

The second way is called Embedded Tech-Voc Qualification in Ladderized Degree Programs. This refers to tech-voc contents that are already included in a College degree program. Such contents are mapped out and identified, and the curriculum is restructured to allow a student of a Ladderized College degree program to earn tech-voc credits and qualifications without having to repeat the same tech-voc subjects for which he has already acquired knowledge and competence. In this way, students of a ladderized college degree program can earn full tech-voc qualifications, and obtain National Certificate for such qualification, when he exits from a tech-voc courses to proceed to a College degree. Therefore, at the time a student completes the Ladderized College Degree program, he earns double qualifications, a National Certificate and a College diploma.