MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Memorandum Circular No. 1194, August 13, 1980 ]

URGING GOVERNMENT AGENCIES CONCERNED TO GIVE MAXIMUM SUPPORT TO THE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL TESTING CENTER, MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND CULTURE, IN CONNECTION WITH THE CONDUCT OF THE NATIONAL COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMINATION (NCEE).

WHEREAS, the National Educational Testing Center (NETC) Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC), in charged with the duty of administering the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) required of all high school graduate seeking admission to post-secondary degree programs to pass said examination, as provided under Presidential Decree No. 146 dated March 9, 1973;

WHEREAS, the NCEE is scheduled to be given on November 9, 1980 in about 1, 300 examination centers throughout the country to more than half-a-million examinees, a job so great considering the demographic conditions of the Philippines;

WHEREFORE, the Ministry of National Defense (MND), the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the National Intelligence and Security Authority (NISA), the Integrated National Police (INP), and the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA), are hereby tasked to extend maximum support and assistance to the NETC, MEC, to ensure full security and smooth administration of the 1980 NCEE all over the country.

In a parallel vein, the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development (MLGCD), the Philippine National Railways, (PNR), the Philippine Airlines (PAL), the Ministry of Public Highways (MPH), the Ministry of Public Works (MPW), the National Irrigation Administration (NIA), and the National Grains Authority (NGA) are hereby enjoined to share such travel facilities as may be deemed necessary for the smooth implementation of the aforementioned examination.1aшphi1

The Ministry of Public Information (MPI), the National Media Production Center (NMPC), and the National Computer Center (NCC), are likewise enjoined to extend maximum support and assistance relative to the dissemination of essential information pertaining to the holding of the examination throughout the country, and the processing of test results, respectively.

By authority of the President:

(SGD.) JACOBO C. CLAVE
Presidential Executive Assistant

Manila, August 13, 1980


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