NEWS: Government suspends college classes until Friday

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[SIZE="4"]Govt suspends college classes 'til Friday[/SIZE]
abs-cbnNEWS.com | 09/29/2009 11:23 AM


MANILA - The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) said Wednesday that classes in the tertiary level in Metro Manila and 26 other areas placed under state of national calamity will remain suspended until Friday.

CHED Chairman Manuel Angeles made the announcement during Tuesday's briefing of the National Disaster Coordinating Council in Camp Aguinaldo with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

Areas placed under state of national calamity were Metro Manila, Mountain Province, Ifugao, Benguet, Pangasinan, La Union, Ilocos Sur, Isabela, Quirino, Nueva Vizcaya, Aurora, Nueva Ecija, Zambales, Pampanga, Bulacan, Tarlac, Bataan, Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon, Occidental and Oriental Mindoro, Marinduque, Catanduanes, Camarines Norte and Camarines Sur.

Angeles also announced that nursing students and Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) cadets would be asked to report to help in government’s clean up and relief operations in devastated areas.

Education Secretary Jesli Lapus earlier announced that elementary and highschool classes in public and private schools in Metro Manila will remain suspended until Wednesday due to the devastating effects of tropical storm Ondoy.

He said several elementary and secondary schools in Metro Manila were still being used as shelters for residents affected by storm. At least 140 schools under the Department of Education's supervision in the metro are housing more than 8,000 families, he added.

Lapus said the government is giving local government and school officials the discretion of suspending classes beyond Wednesday.

"Depending on local conditions in other areas, local government and school authorities may exercise judgment to suspend classes," Lapus said.

Marikina City Mayor Marides Fernando has announced that classes in all levels in the calamity-stricken city will remain suspended until Friday.

Classes in Rizal, Laguna, Batangas and Cavite have also been suspended by local authorities.

At the NDCC meeting, Frisco Nilo of PAGASA said another tropical disturbance may enter the Philippine area of responsibility by Wednesday night and make landfall in Northern Luzon early next week.

Frisco, meanwhile, calmed fears over the coming storm that will be named “Peping.”

He said the incoming storm will not bring rains as heavy as Ondoy.

He added that the storm may also miss the country and change its course to Vietnam.

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...AND I thought [SIZE=1]pandak[/SIZE] is going to declare a non-working holiday this week.....again.

[niky]

They announced Wednesday? ABS-CBN can now see the future?

Good thing they did this... whether we'd like to or not, our school can't open, really, within the week... too much cleaning to do.

And this gives us time to finish our donation drive for typhoon victims in Laguna...