Gatchalian: Let’s unburden professionals of costly seminars, trainings

Pending Congress’ review of the implementation of the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Act, Senator Win Gatchalian on Saturday pushed for the affordability and practicality of the training programs required for the millions of registered professionals in the renewal of their licenses.

“By standardizing and rationalizing the fees, as well as offering online training programs to respond to the times right now when we’re still in the midst of a pandemic, I think that’s a reasonable move to unburden our professionals especially on the financial aspect in the process of renewing their Professional Identification Card (PIC),” Gatchalian said.

Following numerous complaints from various stakeholders on the implementation of the CPD Act, the Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC) said in a Senate hearing that it issued several resolutions and issuances to make the completion of the courses, training, and seminars required to upgrade the competencies and qualifications of professionals flexible.

Among them are the accreditation of online courses, inclusion of professional work experience as a source of creditable units, waiving of accreditation fee for online training programs which Gatchalian said are commendable measures as they address the concerns and plight of the professionals under the current situation.

“Ang common denominator ng complaints ng mga professionals ay magastos ang CPD. And I have observed this in some CPD activities where I had been invited as a resource person,” he said.

“Minsan may kasamang shopping activity or side trip sa mall at iyong kanilang academic side is one or one and a half days. That actually increases the cost and becomes the root cause of a lot of complaints, especially from people coming from outside of Metro Manila,” Gatchalian said.

“My observation is that the CPD became a business to some people. Hindi naman lahat ng mga professionals ay high-earning professionals. May mga professionals na maliit lang ang kinikita,” he added.

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