CHEd opens business education curriculum

THE Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) will implement a new curriculum in business education starting this academic year.

The new program requires higher education institutions all over the country to focus on the outcomes-based education.

“There’s major change in the curriculum. It’s more on the outcomesbased framework, and as I said it is a matching requirement in the industries. What the industries required should be taught and should be part of the curriculum” Conrado Iñigo, head of the CHEd Technical Panel on Business Education, told TheManilaTimes at the sidelines of the education forum organized by Saint Michael’s College of Laguna and the Philippine Association of Private Schools, Colleges, and Universities (PAPSCU) at Club Filipino, Greenhills, San Juan City on Friday.

Iñigo was a resource speaker of the forum titled “Implementation of the Revised PSGs for Business Education in the 21st Century Learning Environment: Challenges and Opportunities.”

Under CHEd Memorandum 17, s. 2017 (CMO 17) or the Revised Policies, Standards and Guidelines for Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA), the five distinct majors under the BSBA program are Human Resource Management, Marketing Management, Financial Management, Operations Management and Business Economics. The BSBA curriculum is also broken down into 122 units.

“We now guaranteed that what Iñigo

the teachers are teaching inside the classroom are the needs and the requirement of the industries. So, therefore if the students can acquire these competencies as required by the industries the graduates can easily be absorbed by the industries,” Iñigo said.

“For instance, if the industries require effective communication, the school should strengthen the teaching of communication or if there is a specific skill required by

the industry that should be taught by the schools so that when they graduate the students can easily be absorbed by the companies,” he explained.

Business education course includes Business Administration, Entrepreneurship, and Office Management. The related areas are Accountancy, Management Accounting, Internal Auditing, Hotel and Restaurant Management, Tourism, Customs Administration, Legal Studies, and Real Estate.