MSC Universityhood update

Cong. Lord Allan Jay Q. Velasco at the Committee hearing.

House Bill No. 04457 introduced by Cong. Lord Allan Jay Q. Velasco in March 2011, seeking the conversion of the Marinduque State College including its satellite campuses into a state university to be known as Marinduque State University (MSU), has undergone First and Second Reading in Congress. A committee hearing was conducted on August 28, 2012, by the Committee on Higher and Technical Education in the lower chamber where the bill was passed for calendaring of the same for Third Reading. The bill will then be filed in the Office of the Secretary, Senate of the Philippines where it will undergo the same procedures.

Committee on Higher and Technical Education hearing 

with Chairperson, Cong. Juan Edgardo M. Angara.

In his earlier introduction of the bill, Cong. Velasco stated that since its establishment, Marinduque State College has developed as an institution of higher learning living up to its mission of providing quality, responsive and dynamic leadership in the areas of Education, Technology, Engineering, Fisheries, Culture, Arts and Sciences. Courses in Allied Medicine, Entrepreneurship, Communication and Tourism, and Information Technology are now also offered by MSC in addition to Industrial Technology and Teacher Education.

MSC officials led by President, Dr. Romulo H. Malvar
were present during the Committee hearing.