On March 3, 2025, President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. signed the RA-12124 known as the ETEEAP Bill. This is to establish the May 10, 1996 Executive Order 330 (EO330) of former President Fidel V. Ramos into a law or Republic Act.
This is the answer to those who had been questioning the legality of ETEEAP as it was only an Executive Order (EO) and no other laws supported it. It will also strengthen the foothold of the program and further re-enforce the legitimacy of the degrees that were earned by the alumni and alumnae under this program. We hope that the issues brought about by some individuals who refuse to recognize the legitimacy of this program will be silenced once and for all by this RA.
Below are images of the downloadable copy in the Supreme Court E-Library link.
The evaluation is the very first part of the assessment process that ETEEAP DHEIs implement to determine if the applicants are eligible to enroll in their program.
The schools usually require the applicants to submit between 1 and 3 sets of their portfolio (credentials), one consisting of all the original documents, and the other two are photocopies. Other schools require only 1 set of photocopies. One of these (if more than one) will be kept in the permanent student record of the school for future reference, just like they do on regular program students.
Along with the submitted documents is the corresponding fee that ranges between PHP5,000.00 and PHP25,000.00. Most private schools require this fee upfront as soon as the applicants submit their letter of intent along with their application form and other credentials.
Does paying the evaluation fee ensure that applicants will be accepted? No. The evaluation process is when and where the applicants’ credentials are examined and scrutinized by the industry experts in the field the applicants are requesting to enroll in. These experts could be the professors of the specified field, or external. The evaluation is not part of their paid job description, and therefore should be paid. Thus the evaluation fee, and therefore is not refundable in most cases, whether the applicants passed or failed the evaluation.
If the applicants passed the evaluation and are accepted, the fee is normally deductible to the whole package fee of the program.
Some schools, especially state universities, do not require evaluation fees upfront. These will only be paid if the applicants passed the evaluation. These are referred to as ‘Evaluation Fee’ or ‘ETEEAP Accreditation Fee’ (either or both appear separately) in the assessment form the students will receive to continue with their enrollment process.
To avoid getting scammed, the applicants are advised to pay these fees directly at the school cashier, or any designated payment system the school has instructed them.
Para saan ang Evaluation at ETEEAP fee?
Ang EVALUATION ay ang pinkaunang prossesso ng assessment na ginagawa ng school para tingnan at busisiin ang mga credential ng mga aplikante kung eligible silang mag-enroll sa ETEEAP (Yan yung ibig sabihin ng Equivalency and Accreditation sa acronym na ETEEAP). Ibig sabihin, pwedeng pumasa o bumagsak ang aplikante sa prossesso na ito.
Kapag ang school ay nag-require ng evaluation/assessment fee bago nila umpisahan ang prossesso, yan ay non-refundable sa karamihang school (baka sa lahat pa nga ng school, at karamihan ay private colleges at universities), pumasa ka man o hindi. May ibang school na saka na lang magbayad ng evaluation fee kung tapos na at pumasa sa evaluation (Karamihan ay state universities, pero may mga private institutions naman na mas considerate at ‘pay only if you passed the evaluation’). Ang tawag sa babayaran na ito sa assessment form ay ‘Evaluation Fee’ o kaya ay ‘ETEEAP Accreditation Fee’. Sa ibang kaso ay magkahiwalay na makikita itong dalawang impormasyon.
Kapag pumasa sa evaluation ay deductible ang evaluation fee na babayaran sa total amount ng buong program (kung upfront o binayaran bago mag-umpisa ang evaluation).
Bakit may ganitong fee?
Dahil ang mga mag-eevaluate at mga expert sa field ay hindi kasama sa kanilang suweldo ang trabaho na ito kaya kailangan silang bayaran regardless kung pumasa o hindi ang applicant (Hindi laging employed sa school ang mga evaluator. Minsan ay external ang mga ito na pupunta lang sa school para mag-evaluate ng mga credential ng mga applicant sa ETEEAP. )
Ang range ng evaluation fee ay 5k hanggang 25k depende sa school.
Para hindi ma-scam ay doon sa school mismo magbayad, hindi sa agent. O mag-verify muna sa school kung pwedeng sa agent ibigay ang bayad.
We are delighted to announce that we are extending assistance to ETEEAP applicants who need help in their document preparation for the ETEEAP schools of their choice.
This is beneficial for you in the following aspects:
Saves time in producing the right documents.
Protect your original documents from getting lost.
Saves money and time on securing and printing unnecessary documents.
Saves time and money on shipping your documents.
Assurance that all required documents are submitted, and you are given proper advice on what to submit as well as those you still need to submit.
Eliminates submission of hard copies of your documents on the initial stage of your application.
Please note: Notarization of your documents (where the school needs some documents be notarized) is not part of these services. You may submit your documents for the purpose of organizing them and for the initial submission to the school (pre-evaluation). If they require notarized documents, that’s the time you can have them notarized and resend the whole set with the notarized versions.
Before you move on, please read the following:
Accountability release (Disclaimer): We would like to emphasize that this offer is not sanctioned by any ETEEAP school. It is our own project and we want to clear the school, where you intend to apply, of any responsibility.
Additionally, this does not guarantee your automatic enrollment with the school you are intending to send your documents. This is just one process of your application, and the rest of the procedure still depends on you and the school of your choice.
Now let’s go back to the services that we are offering.
Here is the procedure:
A fee of PHP 3,000.00 is required for these services. This is paid upon confirmation that you want to avail of our services.
Payment is through G-Cash or bank transfer to a BDO account.
Important: Please fill up the Applicant Declaration Form below to signify your acceptance and agreement with the terms and conditions of these services.
After payment, we will start the process of assisting you in your documents preparation. We will guide you through our email thread or/and the forms you will be filling out.
Either you pass or fail the pre-evaluation, the school will inform you. The process of submission of the rest of the requirements along with other procedures will be your own arrangement with the school after you get the result of the evaluation.
Also you need to create an email account with GMAIL (if you don’t have one yet) as this is needed in the whole process of your document preparation. You will also need this email account when sharing documents on Google Drive with us and with the school you will be enrolling at.
Procedure
Before we start with the assistance, you need to fill out the Applicant Declaration Form below.
Pay the corresponding service fee and follow the guidance of the from below. All instructions and payment details are in the form as you answer each question.
Then contact us through the email in the form to start the process.
If you agree with the above terms and conditions, please open and carefully follow the instructions in the form on the link below. After completion of the form and notifying us, you will be directed to another form that will guide you through the whole process of preparing your requirements.
Pangasinan State University Open University Systems (PSU-OUS)
Pangasinan State University is one of the known universities outside Manila in the north with 8 strategically located campuses in the province. It is also one of the multi-awarded state universities in the whole country.
Besides the efficient implementation of the ETEEAP, it is also efficient in conducting and awarding graduate programs both on-campus and off-campus with their open university systems. To know more about them, you can visit their page with the image link below.
Philippine Christian University-Dasmariñas (PCU-Dasma)
Philippine Christian University-Dasmariñas is one of the campuses of PCU, a private university in the Philippines. This institution has produced quality students with their regular undergraduate programs and Bachelor of Science in Office Administration (BSOA) under their ETEEAP.
They also offer graduate degrees under their regular graduate programs which is open for Filipinos and foreign nationals.
Most state (and some private) universities offer Bachelor of Industrial Technology with the corresponding majors to the applicants’ skills under their ETEEAP. But what are these degrees? Are they considered bachelors degree? And what are their equivalent?
Let us take a closer look at this field. We will use the Commission on Higher Education Memorandum Order, which was signed and released on September 5, 2023 by CHED and called CMO-No-13-Series of 2023-BInd-Tech (CMO-13-S2023).
We only uploaded the image of the first 5 pages on this post as this is a 161-page document. If you want to see all the pages, you may click/tap on the links to either the CHED website or from our resource link below. Documents from these links contain exactly the same information.
We don’t need to expound about this topic as the information on first 5 pages of the CMO on the following images are enough to explain what these programs are and their equivalent. Suffice to mention here the information found at Section 5, number 5 on page 4. Here is what it says:
Allied programs for Industrial Technology are Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Engineering Management, Statistics, Business Administration, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Information Technology, Electronics Engineering and Engineering Technology.
CHED CMO No. 13, Series of 2023 – September 5, 2023
A copy of the CMO can be viewed and downloaded here.
This contains CNN’s interview with CHED chairman Prospero de Vera III about the ETEEAP, its procedure and other essential information that can help our readers.
Interview with CHED chairman Prospero de Vera III on CNN about ETEEAP.
This contains the list of testimonies from different YouTube channel links that we produced, or from our readers and members. We have setup this exclusive page for you. Please feel free to inform us if you have something to share that we can advertise both your testimony and your channel. We can also arrange an interview with those who want to share their ETEEAP journey as well as with school ETEEAP administrators who want to help disseminate helpful information about this program, and how they implement the system in their institutions.
Interview with CHED chairman Prospero de Vera on CNN about ETEEAP.
Testimonies
Jeanne Rivero (PSU-Bachelor of Education)
Jeanne Rivero (PSU-Bachelor of Education)
From Jeanne Rivero’s YouTube channel. Thanks a million times Mam Jeanne for featuring our website and allowing us to use your video. You can watch the video on her YouTube channel here.
You may have skills that you acquired from your years of experiences in your workplace but you cannot produce certificates to prove such except for the recommendations and employment certificates provided by your employer. Many HEIs are requiring skill-specified certificates that were earned from learning institutions and training centers and most of them accept those that were taken up online.
We have a few suggestions here that may help you. These are already established online learning sites and some of their learning modules are used by some universities and colleges as part of their learning resources.
Create an account with LinkedInhere and complete your profile. Then visit their learning siteshere where you can find their free lessons and take up an examination at the end of each lesson. You can then download the certificates that you can use as credentials.
They have one month free trial on premium accounts that you may want to take advantage of where you can find premium lessons. You may continue with the paid premium account at the end of the trial period if you wish.
Google also offers online lessons in different topics. They have free lessons but if you want to earn a certificate, you need to pay a certain amount for each examination that you take up. You may visit their learning site here.
The Philippine government has set up a department that provides free training on different skills where one can earn a certificate at the end. You may visit their website here, and their e-learning site here.
This page contains the application form that need to be completed and submitted to the school where you want to enroll (NOT to CHED). For those who need to prepare other required documents for their ETEEAP application, we have links to the samples at the bottom of the page, below the images. You may visit the pages where these documents were described in details along with their downloadable and editable versions.
As for the application form, the editable version on Microsoft word can be downloaded here, or on the the link located below the image number 5.
Important:Please check your download folder after you click on the download link.
Why are reading skills very important, and what role does it play in our everyday life? How does reading help us understand ETEEAP better and help us get to the right track towards our long-awaited secular degree? An article from the Philippine Star has the following:
“Reading proficiency is essential for a wide variety of human activities – from following instructions in a manual; to finding out the who, what, when, where, and why of an event; to communicating with others for a specific purpose or transaction,” (Italicization is ours)
Here is the whole article taken from the Philippine Star published on December 3, 2019. We can learn a lot about it especially now that distractions abound along with the shortened attention span of not only the younger generation but the older ones as well, and it’s not too late to do something about it. Please read on.
Philippines lowest in reading comprehension among 79 countries
Among 79 participating countries, the Philippines scored the lowest in reading comprehension in the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), according to the results released Dec. 3, 2019..The STAR / Edd Gumban, file
MANILA, Philippines — Among 79 participating countries and economies, the Philippines scored the lowest in reading comprehension in the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), according to the results released Tuesday.
PISA is a worldwide study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development that examines students’ knowledge in reading, mathematics, and science.
Reading was the main subject assessed among 15-year old students in the 2018 PISA. The Philippines had an average reading score of 340, more than 200 points below China (555) and more than 100 points less than the OECD average (487).
In the Philippines, boys’ and girls’ performances in reading both ranked lowest among PISA-participating countries.
“Reading proficiency is essential for a wide variety of human activities – from following instructions in a manual; to finding out the who, what, when, where, and why of an event; to communicating with others for a specific purpose or transaction,” the summary of the PISA 2018 results reads.
The Philippines also placed the second-lowest in mathematics (353), along with Panama, and science (357). Only the Dominican Republic scored lower in these categories.
China also led the ranking in mathematics and science. The OECD average for mathematics is 489 and the average for science is 483.
“Results from PISA indicate the quality and equity of learning outcomes attained around the world, and allow educators and policymakers to learn from the policies and practices applied in other countries,” a post on the OECD website reads.
According to the PISA 2018 profile of the Philippines, socio-economic status accounts for 18% of the variance in reading performance in the country, compared to the OECD average of 12%.
The country has the largest percentage of low performers in reading among socio-economically disadvantaged students.
The profile noted that average class sizes of 15-year olds in the Philippines are the largest, and the ratio of students to teaching staff in socio-economically disadvantaged schools is the highest.
The Philippines also had the highest percentage of students reporting being bullied at least a few times a month.
