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New England College
September
2006
World-class education for global opportunities
One of a handful of new, modern colleges recently established, NEW ENGLAND
COLLEGE (NEC) was conceived and planned by a group of ambitious and determined
investors in education, headed by an outstanding M.A. in Educational
Management of the University of the Philippines, sometime in August 2003.
HUMBLE BEGINNINGS
In response to the need for truly globally competent graduates in the field of
healthcare, information and communications technology (ICT), education and
business administration to meet worldwide demands for such manpower, Mrs.
Norma Ching, the UP alumna and the president of a chain of Early Achievers
Pre-Schools and the De Novo Development Center for Special Children, together
with Mr. Henry Wong, co-founder of Genetic Computer Institute–Binondo Centre,
Spartan Education Management, Inc., and The Elegant Kindergarten (Guangzhou,
China), then decided to establish NEC to make a difference in career-oriented
education.
The year 2004 saw the hectic installation of world-class, fully
air-conditioned facilities and classrooms; well-equipped laboratories, like
Physics, Chemistry, Anatomy, Physiology, Biology, and simulated mock hospital
and skills laboratory for the health sciences; and a modern, completely
stacked library with computers and Internet for research. Simultaneously, the
applications for permits to offer such above-mentioned in-demand courses were
submitted to the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) for the four-year
courses, and to the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA)
for the two-year Technical Vocational courses.
New England College at 40 Quezon Avenue, Quezon City.A week after government
permits were granted, NEC opened its door in June 2005, offering the following
four-year courses: Bachelor of Science in Nursing; Bachelor in Secondary
Education major in English; Bachelor in Elementary Education – Special
Education (SPED); B.S. in Information Technology; B.S. in Computer Science;
B.S. in Business Administration major in Management; B.S. in Customs
Administration; and TESDA courses on Caregiver, English Proficiency Program,
Associate Degree in Nursing, Medical Transcription, Call Center Finishing,
Certified Bookkeeping, and Flight Attendant. The college is now on its way to
greater heights in the delivery of world-class, globally competitive
education, what with more students enrolled even up to year three in B.S.
Nursing.
PRESENT TIMES
What was once an acorn is now growing to become an oak.
With its vision of being a center of excellence in tertiary education,
particularly in Nursing, NEC commits to offer a productive environment
conducive to successful research, and a mission to produce highly competitive
graduates who will be work-oriented, outward-looking, nationalistic and
values-oriented. NEC is fully supported by the "ICT" of Education. The
above-mentioned institutional facilities (I) that visitors admire are proofs
of commitment to provide the best for its students. Curricula (C) have been
upgraded and aligned to course offerings of colleges and universities in
America and Europe.
Since the teacher/faculty (T) is the heart and soul in the delivery of
education, only the most qualified English-speaking faculty members are hired
to teach their subjects of specialization. Of the present 16 faculty members,
four members or 25 percent hold doctorate degrees, 12.5 percent finished
doctorate units, 50 percent are masters’ degree holders, and the remaining
12.5 percent are taking M.A. units. Development, indeed, is ongoing for even a
better NEC.
As the college seeks to provide quality, globally competitive, relevant and
excellent education, it also desires to improve and break new grounds in the
quest for relevance and excellence via programs crucial to the growth and
development of the college.
For students, the Student Intervention Program (SIP) aims to maximize the
diverse students’ respective potentials, with emphasis on English, Science and
Math competencies. For faculty members, the Teacher Intervention Program (TIP)
is designed to re-tool teachers for their evolving roles as facilitators of
learning, to enhance their research capabilities, and to improve their
communication skills via in-house training programs, scholarships and grants.
Administrators are likewise given focus through the Managerial Capability
Program (MCP) to re-engineer the capabilities of deans and department heads
for their evolving roles in administering and delivering education. Capping
such programs is the Values Formation Program to make one live up to the core
values and culture of the college, of the Philippines, and of the global
society.
As part of the main inspiration which contributed to the inception of the name
of NEC, the New England States in northeastern United States serves as the
traditional seats of excellent American education through world-class,
topnotch Ivy League powerhouse universities such as Harvard, Yale and Boston.
In the Philippines, NEC seeks to spearhead the development of a truly
academically acclaimed institution of learning for gifted Filipinos seeking
global opportunities and bountiful career development. As a result, New
England College will certainly redefine their world!
THE STUDENT INTERVENTION PROGRAM (SIP)
As the mission of the college to produce highly competitive graduates in
tertiary level programs, graduates who are work-oriented, outward-looking and
capable of competing in the global environment, student training necessitates
interventions that will truly facilitate achievement of the said goals. One
such program is the Student Intervention Program (SIP), which takes a two-fold
tract – academic proficiency and social development.
Academic proficiency is aided by the NEC’s English Proficiency Program, which
utilizes English softwares and a digital speech laboratory, and is led by
English professors who are specialists in the language. With English as the
medium of communication among students and faculty, the end-result desired,
which is competence and proficiency in English, is assured.
Social development is meant to make students aware of social problems and the
need for national involvement – in the form of community immersion and
community service geared toward health, sanitation, and the promotion of the
Bayanihan spirit. These are carried out through barangay activities in
consultation with cooperating barangays and their officials. Inside NEC,
social development is done through its programs and the Central Student
Council, whose activities are geared toward individual and group development
in academics and social relationships.
STUDENT ACTIVITIES
The students’ involvement in college activities ranges from participation in
Career Orientations for graduating fourth year high school students in various
schools in Metro Manila to community immersion and
service. They not only enhance the talks with their presence; they also talk
about the College and the courses they take. At present, students are involved
in Barangay Manresa in community immersion, health, sanitation and information
drive programs. A very significant milestone in their developmental activities
was the recent Capping, Pinning and Candle-Lighting Ceremony for third year
Nursing students who are now on their way to becoming world-class
professionals in the healthcare arena.
INTERNATIONAL LINKAGE/ TIE-UP
Providing education that will make one globally competitive is an exigency in
these modern times. To realize such an objective, New England College has
sought linkage/tie-up with United States, as well as colleges and universities
in Asia, in the spirit of quality education and genuine globalization.
On December 18, 2006, a Memorandum of Agreement between NEC and the Robert
Ross International University of Nursing, with campus at St. Kitts and offices
in Florida and New York, will be signed in Lantana, Florida. Presently, two
tertiary educational institutions in the People’s Republic of China are
seriously negotiating for tie-ups with NEC to accommodate their students who
aspire to take up Nursing in the Philippines and other courses in NEC that
will help upgrade their English language proficiency.
Needless to say, such collaborations will bring benefits to both student and
faculty via multi-facade exchanges, as well as enhance the quality of global
education in this new institution of learning.
Source: Manila Bulletin Online
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