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CHED's Updated Priority College Courses

The Commission on Higher Education in the Philippines has updated its list of priority courses for incoming college students to pursue in order to receive financial assistance and jobs that support economic growth. The priority courses are in fields like agriculture, engineering, science, IT, teaching, health sciences, and business that match the projected workforce needs of key industries according to national development plans and labor department studies. Officials stress that pursuing these courses will help students find in-demand jobs while also contributing to the country's development agenda outlined in its economic blueprint.

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CHED's Updated Priority College Courses

The Commission on Higher Education in the Philippines has updated its list of priority courses for incoming college students to pursue in order to receive financial assistance and jobs that support economic growth. The priority courses are in fields like agriculture, engineering, science, IT, teaching, health sciences, and business that match the projected workforce needs of key industries according to national development plans and labor department studies. Officials stress that pursuing these courses will help students find in-demand jobs while also contributing to the country's development agenda outlined in its economic blueprint.

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The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) is advising incoming college students

to go for "priority courses" for them to get financial assistance and to land indemand jobs that could help spur economic growth. The agency has updated its list
of priority courses that were identified based on national development plans,
manpower demands until 2018 and a study of the Department of Labor and
Employment (DOLE) that determined the in-demand and hard-to-fill courses, skills
and jobs that match the projected employment requirements of key industries until
2020. These are the priority courses that is necessary to our industry to spur our
economic development. CHED executive director Julito Vitriolo said. According to
the new list, the priority courses are those in the fields of agriculture, engineering,
science and math, information technology, teacher education, health sciences, arts
and

humanities,

social

and

behavioral

sciences,

business

administration,

architecture, maritime and communication. Vitriolo stressed that pursuing the


priority courses will not only enable students to get financial assistance and indemand jobs in the future, but it will also give them the opportunity to contribute to
the country's development. This is because the priority courses are needed by the
economy and they support the government's development agenda, Vitriolo said.
Echoing Vitriolo's statements, the director of the CHED Office of Student
Development and Services said the priority courses are aligned to the Medium-Term
Philippine Development Plan, the country's economic blueprint which adopts a
framework

of

inclusive

growth.

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