Batuan Colleges
October 2006

A family obsession of bringing education close to the grassroots

Batuan Colleges is an educational institution in the municipality of Batuan founded in 1994 by Dr. Consolacion D. Vinluan (a Doctor of Education, major in Educational Management). Its establishment was supported by the Candido and Gliceria Digamon family with nine children who are all professionals of which Dr. Vinluan is the eldest. The couple and the nine children are the members of the Board of Trustees. They are natives of Batuan, an interior town of the province of Bohol famous for the Chocolate Hills.

HUMBLE BEGINNINGS

Originally, the main concern of the founder is to educate the natives of the municipality, thereby increasing literacy rate in the locality, since higher educational institutions in the province are found in Tagbilaran City which is 51 kilometers away from Batuan.

The College started operating with only one classroom which was actually the living room of the family house in the heart of the Poblacion and with only four students and three instructors who are members of the Board of Trustees. One room was turned into a library, another a computer room and the other , the Office of the Administration.

The Batuan Colleges in the town of Batuan in Bohol. In June 1995, the College opened Computer Secretarial, Computer Technician and Hotel, Restaurant and Service Technology courses. Electronics Technology was opened in 1996. Last June, BS Tourism, BS Accountancy and, BS Business Administration courses were started and the Laboratory School (Elementary) and Preschool were opened. The College of Business Administration is headed by a member of the Board of Trustees who is a Master of Business Administration graduate and a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with another member who is a CPA and a Licensed International Auditor.

When the first graduates in education passed the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) in 1999, students from other municipalities and even those who stopped schooling for a long time already, enrolled thus multiplying the enrolment in the College of Education.

Then, when 100 percent of the graduates in Computer Secretarial, Computer Technician and HRST passed the Competency Assessment (Trade Test) conducted by TESDA, students from far-flung barangays and municipalities came to finish a course in this small college. This achievement of the graduates of these course made TESDA consider students in the college as recipients of the PESFA and ADB scholarships. Now, Batuan Colleges has a total of 134 PESFA and ADB grantees and 35 grantees of Congressman Eladio Jala’s scholarship for college students.

In May 2002, the Batuan Colleges Junior Graftwatch Unit (JGU) was adjudged the Most Outstanding JGU and the awarding of Plaque was held at the Office of the Ombudsman by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

Since 1999, the College of Education has produced 187 graduates and a big percentage of them have passed the LET and are now employed in public schools while some are teaching in private schools.

Batuan Colleges has expanded in terms of enrolment and physically, it has gone from the one room with four students in 1994 to its present three-storey buildings housing 440 students. All these are made possible through the generosity and resources of the members of the Board of Trustees, relatives, friends and benefactors here and abroad.

PRESENT TIMES

Batuan Colleges started its operation in 1994. From its pioneering four-student population in its maiden year, the present enrolment for SY 2006-2007 now stands at 440. There is a well-based optimism that enrolment will increase thru the years mainly because of the sustained sterling passing rate-record for the past seven years in the Licensure Examination for Teachers and the various Competency Assessment (trade test) conducted by TESDA for HRST, Computer Secretarial and Computer Technician graduates.

In anticipation to a boom in enrolment in the coming years, Batuan Colleges is now going full throttle in the expansion program, utilizing a site located only some 50 meters away from the main campus.

The annex site presently houses the Electronics building, the two-storey Elementary Grade School building, the School Auditorium and the basketball court.

Meanwhile, undergoing construction at the annex site are the HRST building and another to be exclusively used for baking and pastry.

At present, Batuan Colleges is offering the following courses: Bachelor of Secondary Education, major in English, Mathematics, Science and Filipino; Bachelor of Elementary Education (Math, English, Health & Science, Filipino as areas of specialization), Bachelor of Tourism, Bachelor of Science in Accountancy, Bachelor of Business Administration; two- year courses in Hotel, Restaurant and Service Technology, Computer Secretarial, Computer Technician, and Electronics Technology, and the Laboratory School (Elementary & Preschool). Short course are also offered such as: Computer Operations for Employment Purposes, baking, housekeeping, food processing and preservation, A-V servicing and computer servicing.

The following courses are slated to be offered in the coming years: B.S. in Information Technology and Communication, Dental Technology, Midwifery, High School and Bachelor of Arts, major in different fields.

In terms of instructional facilities, Batuan Colleges library now has more than 6,000 volumes of Filipiniana and foreign-authored books aside form the dictionaries and encyclopedias, magazines, and other publications. There is also an AV Hall equipped with audio-visual materials such as karaoke, overhead projector, TV unit with DVD, CD players, microphones and radio cassettes.

An Internet Center/Speech Laboratory with Computer units and Web Cam and the Computer room with several units of computers are now being used by the students.

The technical-vocational courses are manned by instructors who are all assessors of the competency assessments of TESDA having passed the series of Competency Assessments and trainings conducted by the same agency.

Batuan Colleges has a present teaching staff of twenty-eight and a non-teaching personnel of twelve, catering to the needs of its adjacent municipalities and the whole province, for low-cost but quality education.

FLAGSHIP ACADEMIC COURSES

In the past eleven years of operation, Batuan Colleges has been barking heavily on the following courses: Bachelor of Secondary Education, Bachelor of Elementary Education, Hotel, Restaurant and Service Technology, Computer Secretarial and Computer Technician, not only for successfully attracting the most number of enrollees year-in and year-out but also because of the scintillating passing-rate records posted by the graduates of these courses in the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) conducted by the PRC and the Competency Assessment conducted by TESDA over the years.

This, indeed, is the institution’s feather in the cap proving to all and sundry that the College is exerting unrelentless efforts to cope with the challenge to charm in quality and globally competitive products as envisioned by its administration and as enjoined by the national leadership.

Of the four, however, the best over-all record is the sole property of Bachelor of Secondary and Elementary Education which boasts of the following marks in the Licensure Examination for Teachers – BEEd: 2005 (73%); 2004 (54%); 2003 (50%); 2002 (77%); 2001 (83%); and 1999 (100%) while for BSE: 2005 (75%); 2004 (80%); 2003 (40%); 2002 (83%); 2001 (33%); 2000 (40%); and 1999 (60%). Thus, there was never a time when the passing rate of graduates of education in the LET was below the percentage passing in the national level.

Last schoolyear 2005-2006, three of the graduating students in education, Miss Marites Digamon, Miss Eleafel Cruz and Miss Analyn Polinar were among the TEN OUTSTANDING STUDENTS OF BOHOL (TOSB), This search was sponsored by the DepEd, CHED and Provincial Government of Bohol.

This school year, graduates in education proved their worth when in the secondary level an English major, Zinen Samputon-Barril ranked second in the DepEd Division ranking for teacher-applicants while Flordelisa Baldoza is the no. 1 in the district of Batuan and Rolando Cagatin is the no. 1 in the district of Carmen.

The next passing rate record holders are the Hotel Restaurant & Service Technology and Computer Secretarial which show a 100 percent passing rate records from school year 2002-2003 to 2005-2006, inclusive.

Only last September 2, 2006, in the competency assessment conducted by TESDA on the graduating students in Computer Secretarial, everyone passed it with flying colors, i.e. a 100% passing mark.

The next best record belongs to Computer Technician, posting the following records for the periods specified: SY 2005-2006 (75 percent); SY 2004-2005; 2003-2004, 2002-2003 (100 percent).

The following are the Licensure Examination Passers for 2006 are Rogelio Abid, Jebecca Anagon, Belinda Buaya. Eleafel Cruz, Arlyn Dolotina, Cheryl Decasa, Glenda Jumawid, Nancy Lugatiman, Jennifer Malaran, Mary Ann Noculan, Rodelyn Palingcud, Jay Petalcorin, Analyn Polinar, Michelle Polinar, Elizabeth Samorano, Lea Tecson, Lynn Villanil and the reviewees: Ma. Fe Lenteria, Nelzon Dayot, Judith Persigan, Herberto Piollo, Rusel Lantaco, Armando Tabel, Sandy Badilla, Romel Mengiuto, Emelita Banados, Jumel Rosaupan, Rodesa Jacob, Myra Eyas, Rosita Alcoser, Generosa Alcoser, Jenalyn Jumawid, Cefrienito Escalante, Maribeth Narisma, Nerian Gallogo, Madelyn Adlaon, Jorge Bague, Reyna Cantoneros, Ma. Dina Justiane, Gina Grado, Annie Paquibot, Emma Gambe, Elvie Panerio, Gloria Piador, Ma. Jocelyn Masamayor, Imee Andot, Analiza Siarot, Sigre Mante, Sharon Alleloya, Tito Tagsip, Ma. Gina Lahoy, Elizabeth Baliling, Anecita Tape, and Reynaldo Sumampong.

Source: Manila Bulletin Online

 
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