March 22, 2024, 10:00 pmSenior Deputy Speaker Aurelio Gonzales Jr. is pushing for the enactment of a bill establishing a regular and permanent campus of the Pampanga State University in San Fernando City, Pampanga’s capital.
Gonzales at the same time thanked the House leadership headed by Speaker Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez for supporting the measure that was passed on third and final reading recently. Gonzales acknowledged that Romualdez also supported the renaming of Don Honorio Ventura State University to Pampanga State University.
Under HB 9988, the general mandate of the Pampanga State University-San Fernando campus is to offer “short-term technical-vocational, undergraduate and graduate courses within its areas of competency and specialization…necessary to respond to the human resource development needs of the province of Pampanga and the Central Luzon region.”
It shall comply with the policies, standards and guidelines of the Commission on Higher Education, including those related to the offering of courses.