In a privilege speech Monday afternoon, Tan recalled that in 2010, CHED issued Memorandum Order No. 32 to impose a moratorium on the opening of all undergraduate and graduate programs in Nursing, Business Administration, Teacher Education, Hotel and Restaurant Management and Information Technology effective school year 2011-2012.
"Said moratorium was anchored on the proliferation of Higher Education Institutions offering these undergraduate and graduate programs, which if allowed to continue unabated, would result to the deterioration of the quality of graduates of these five higher education programs.
However, Tan said that 10 years after the implementation of CMO No. 32 and with the country’s COVID-19 pandemic experience, CMO 32 bears revisiting. Tan cited pre-COVID-19 pandemic data, showing that the world does not have a global nursing workforce commensurate with the universal health coverage and SDG targets.