Most Filipinos trust competence of June 2006 nursing passers

SAYS SURVEY

By Kate V. Pedroso
Inquirer
Last updated 09:54pm (Mla time) 02/20/2007

MANILA, Philippines -- While most Filipinos would trust passers of the controversial June 2006 nursing board exam to take care of them in sickness, they also agreed that opportunities for the nurses to work abroad would decrease as an aftermath of the cheating that marred the exams, recent surveys from the Social Weather Stations found.

The US Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS International) recently decided not to issue VisaScreen certificates to passers of the nursing licensure examinations in June 2006, unless they would retake and pass two parts of the tests which were allegedly leaked.

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