The Commission on Higher Education, which granted COMTEQ the permit to offer bachelor degree courses in 1999, has finally recognized the courses after a three-member team of inspectors validated the school’s continued and satisfactory compliance with government standards during a visit of the school last January 13, 2005.
School officials said they are proud that the school passed the much-delayed validation even under the most stringent of conditions imposed by the CHED inspectors.
It took no less than CHED Regional Director Dr. Felizardo Y. Francisco who facilitated the validation after finding out that the inspection is “long overdue.”
“Now that we have secured the recognition, we can now focus our efforts at continually improving our services to our students,” Edelwaldo B. Joaquin told the COMTEQ staff after the inspection.
COMTEQ Computer College remains one of the very few schools in the whole country with its own website and an excellent information technology infrastructure comparable only with those of the bigger colleges in Metro Manila.
Like those of the big colleges in Manila, COMTEQ has a server that hosts its own website. Like the world’s biggest free e-mail providers including Yahoo and Google, COMTEQ also has the capability of providing all its students with free e-mail accounts which the students can access from anywhere in the world.
The only difference is that COMTEQ’s website and its systems were set up and are being maintained by the students themselves, and not by professional web developers and systems administrators, Michelle Manal, college dean, said.
“We have students undergoing on-the-job-training who are competent enough to handle these jobs,” she added.
Joaquin, however, lamented the fact that many students are still not aware of these privileges, and ordered the staff to conduct an information drive to encourage students to avail of the free e-mail service and to maximize the use of the website.
Manal also said that the website is now undergoing major changes, including the integration of the e-learning system “to make it responsive to the needs of our students.”