MANILA, April 2 (PIA)–The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) will roll out licensure application caravan in four (4) Metro Manila SM Malls for newly graduate nurses and teachers.
Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) Chairman Teresita Manzala said that the PRC is rolling out its application caravan in four SM Malls for this year’s Nursing Licensure Examinations (NLE) set on 25-26 May and the Licensure Examination for Professional Teachers (LET) on 27 July.
The application caravan will be conducted from 10:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. at the following malls on the following dates: 24-28 March—SM Novaliches; SM Southmall; and SM San Lazaro; and 7-11 April, 26-30 May, and 9-13—SM Manila, SM Novaliches, and SM South Mall.
The deadline for the filing of applications is as follows: For Nurses—28 March for Repeaters and 11 April for First-Time Takers; and for Teachers—30 May for Repeaters and 13 June for First-Time Takers.
The Professional Regulation Commission, an attached agency of the DOLE, had issued Memorandum Circular No. 2014-03 on 20 March providing for the conduct of the application caravan.
The caravan is to be implemented in anticipation of the significant volume of applicants for the nurses and teachers licensure examinations
Applicants for licensure examination are advised to encode their data via the Online Application System (OAS) facility of the PRC website before proceeding to the above-mentioned SM Malls.
The OAS, which went into full operation in July 2013, enables applicants for licensure examinations to apply online, anytime, and anywhere and take the licensure examination at the PRC testing centers indicated in their Application Forms.
“With the OAS, clients will be able to avail of PRC services easily anytime, anywhere, or even within the comfort and convenience of their homes or offices, thereby, hastening PRCs delivery of needed services while decongesting its offices of thousands of professionals and licensure examination applicants who transact business with PRC every day,” Manzala added.
The PRC emphasized, however, that it will continue to accept applications for examinations at its central offices located at P. Paredes St. cor. N. Reyes St., Sampaloc, Manila.
The implementation of the PRC’s Application Caravan and ‘e-Services’ is a PRC strategy to enhance human capital through education and training by strengthening the national licensing, competency assessment, and certification systems. (PRC/RJB/SDL/PIA-NCR)