CEBU Normal University will send teachers to top universities in the Asean region to benchmark education standards.
The university, which just celebrated its centennial, will partner with the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Regional Center for Educational Innovation and Technology (Seameo-Innotech) in this undertaking.
The program was announced on Friday during CNU president Marcelo Lopez’s State of the University Portfolio.
“Together with our partners at Seameo-Innotech, I wish the success of the human capital investment program of CNU that is aimed at developing and strengthening the institutional capacity of CNU to become a leading provider of 21st century university-trained professionals in Asia and the Pacific,” said Lopez.
The Cebu Normal University was founded by American wartime teachers who came to the Philippines on-board the US fleet USS Thomas.
The school was established in 1902 as a teacher-training institution. The university has the only teacher education college in the country that is accredited Level-4 by the Accrediting Agency of Chartered Colleges and Universities in the Philippines Inc.
“CNU finds herself in an era of globalization, international trade and commerce, and knowledge economy. These conditions require a closer look at the transformational capacity of the university in preparing 21st-century human capital-developed technical and professional capacities of a nation’s people,” said Lopez.
CNU recently sent its educators to various research missions and immersion programs in various fields of study. The university is currently concretizing its centennial theme of “Good to Great” by institutionalizing system changes in the university.