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BATAS PAMBANSA BILANG. 408BATAS PAMBANSA BLG. 408 - AN ACT
CONVERTING THE CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION VILLAGE IN MAGPET,
NORTH COTABATO, INTO A COLLEGE TO BE KNOWN AS THE COTABATO FOUNDATION
COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, AND AUTHORIZING THE APPROPRIATION OF
FUNDS THEREFOR
Section 1. The Children's Educational Foundation Village in
the sitios of Doroluman and Medlambid of Arakan Valley in Magpet, North
Cotabato, is hereby converted into a college, to be known as the
Cotabato Foundation College of Science and Technology.
Sec. 2. The Cotabato Foundation College of Science
and Technology shall primarily provide higher technological,
professional, vocational training and industrial apprenticeship in the
fields of science, agriculture and industry. It shall further promote
research, advanced studies and progressive leadership in each area of
specialization.
Sec. 3. The Cotabato Foundation College of Science
and Technology is for the custodial care and vocational education of
children of adversity at Doroluman and Medlambid, sitios of Arakan
Valley, in the Municipality of Magpet, Province of North
Cotabato.
"Children" as used in this Act shall mean and include orphans,
homeless, neglected children, indigent children from broken homes and
children from poverty-stricken families due to sickness, calamities and
other misfortunes.
Sec. 4. The Cotabato Foundation College of Science
and Technology hereinafter referred to as the "Foundation College"
shall entrust to the Custodial Care Administrator, foster parents, in
cooperation with educators, psychologists, sociologists and other
professionally trained personnel purposely employed by the Foundation
College, the care, custody, correction, education and vocational
training as well as physical, moral and spiritual uplift of orphans,
homeless, neglected children, indigent children from broken homes,
children of poverty-stricken families due to sickness, public
calamities and other misfortunes. It shall serve as a laboratory and
training center for child welfare development studies and offer
opportunities for manual labor, higher education and assistance to
deserving self-supporting and industrious students in Mindanao.
Sec. 5. The Cotabato Foundation College of Science
and Technology shall offer not only elementary, secondary general and
secondary vocational courses, two years vocational, industrial arts and
trades, home technology, engineering and agriculture, associate in
animal science, food technology, but also baccalaureate degrees, like
Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, Bachelor of Science in Home
Economics, Bachelor of Science in Forestry, Bachelor of Science in
Geology, Bachelor of Science in Social Service and Development,
Bachelor of Science in Anthropology, Bachelor of Science in Trades and
Industries, Bachelor of Science in Agri-Business, midwifery,
pre-nursing, and other technical courses relevant to the needs of the
region, on the college level as prescribed and approved by the Board of
Trustees.
Sec. 6. The head of the Foundation College shall
be the President to be appointed for a term of six years by the
President of the Philippines upon the recommendation of the Board of
Trustees of the Cotabato Foundation College of Science and Technology.
The powers and duties of the President, in addition to those
specifically provided for in this Act, shall be those pertaining to the
office of a president of a college. He shall coordinate, plan and
implement the policy of the Board of Trustees, and shall be assisted by
two vice-presidents, one for academic affairs and the other for
administrative and land development affairs appointed by the Board of
Trustees upon the recommendation of the Foundation College of
President. The Vice-President for Academic Affairs shall have the
immediate supervision of the instructional and welfare program of the
Foundation College. In addition, he shall act as President in the
absence of the latter. The Vice-President for Administrative and Land
Development Affairs shall have direct supervision over the
administrative matters of personnel and the construction and
development of the one thousand hectares of land of the Foundation
College and other duties prescribed by the Board of Trustees.
Sec. 7. The government of said Foundation College
shall be vested in, and exercised by, a Board of Trustees composed of
the Minister of Education, Culture and Sports as presiding chairman,
the President of the Foundation College as vice-chairman,
representative of the National Economic and Development Authority
(NEDA), member, and two (2) prominent citizens who have distinguished
themselves in the profession or fields of specialization of the
College, one representing the alumni of the institution and the other
chosen from prominent citizens of the province, to be appointed by the
President of the Philippines upon recommendation of the Minister of
Education, Culture and Sports, members. In the absence of some of the
members of the Board, the respective alternates or authorized
representatives shall attend the meeting to constitute a quorum.
Members of the Board shall serve without compensation other than actual
and necessary expenses incurred either in attendance upon meetings of
the Board or upon other official business authorized by resolution of
the Board, subject to existing budget laws on honoraria and
allowances.
Sec. 8. A quorum of the Board of Trustees shall
consist of a majority of all the members: Provided, however, That among
those present are the Minister of Education, Culture and Sports who is
chairman of the board, or the President of the Foundation College, who
acts as presiding officer in the former's absence. All processes
against the Board of Trustees shall be served on the President or
Secretary thereof.
Sec. 9. The Board of Trustees shall have the
following powers and duties in addition to its general powers:
a. To enact for the government of the Foundation
College such rules and regulations not contrary to law, as may be
necessary to carry out the purposes and functions of the Foundation
College, and to receive and appropriate to the ends specified by law
such sums as may be provided by law for the support of the Foundation
College;
b. To confer degrees upon successful candidates for
graduation, certificates for completion of non-degree programs, awards
of merit to those children and youths who graduate or show exceptional
scholarship, leadership ability, manual skills or moral conduct, and to
award honorary degrees upon persons in recognition of learning, public
service, statesmanship or eminence in every field of specialization of
the Foundation College;
c. To confirm appointments of vice-presidents, deans,
directors, registrars, heads of departments, professors, teachers,
social workers, foster parents, and other officials and employees of
the Foundation College; to fix their compensation, subject to
Presidential Decree No. 985 and other pertinent budget and compensation
laws, hours of service, and such other duties and conditions as it may
deem proper, grant at its discretion leaves of absence and to remove
them for cause after an investigation and hearing shall have been
had;
d. To approve the curricula and rules of discipline
drawn up by the administrative and academic councils hereinafter
provided;
e. To fix rules and policies in regard to foster home
care, the criteria for children's admission to the Foundation College
and its functions and maintenance in addition to those specifically
provided in this Act; and to fix tuition fees and such other necessary
school charges as the governing boards may deem proper to impose;
f. To establish chairs in the Foundation College and
to provide fellowships for qualified faculty members and scholarships
to deserving students for leadership and good scholarship;
g. To provide rules for the government of the
Foundation College under such general ordinances and regulations not
contrary to law as are necessary in training the children for
leadership and citizenship;
h. To receive in trust legacies, gifts, and donations
of real and personal property of all kinds and to administer the same
for the benefit of the Foundation College or for the aid to any of the
children or students in accordance with the directions and instructions
of the donor, and, in default thereof, in such manner as the Board of
Trustees may in its discretion determine; and
i. To authorize the construction or repair of its
buildings, machineries, equipment and other facilities and the purchase
of necessary supplies, materials, and equipment, any provision of law
to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, however, That the funds for
the purpose shall come from the authorized appropriation of the
Foundation College.
Sec. 10. On or before the fifteenth day of the
second month after the opening of the regular classes each year, the
Board of Trustees shall file with the President of the Philippines a
detailed report, setting forth the progress, condition, and needs of
the Foundation College.
Sec. 11. In general there shall be a Foundation
College council consisting of the administrative council and the
academic council. The administrative council of the College consists of
the President as chairman, and the vice-presidents, deans, directors
and other officials of equal rank as members, whose duty shall be to
implement policies governing the administration, management, and
development planning of the Foundation College as approved by the
governing Board; and the academic council with the President of the
Foundation College as chairman and all the professors, custodial care
administrator, members of the instructional staff of the college as
members. The academic council shall have the power to prescribe the
curricula and rules of discipline, subject to the approval of the Board
of Trustees. It shall fix the requirements for admission to the
Foundation College as well as for graduation and the conferring of
degrees, subject to review by the Board of Trustees, and receiving of
certificates, diplomas, or awards of merit. Through the President of
the Foundation College, the academic council shall have disciplinary
powers over the children, and member council students within the limits
prescribed by the Board of Trustees.
Sec. 12. The body of professors, teachers, foster
parents and other technical employees, constitutes the faculty and
staff of said Foundation College with the President as the presiding
officer. Its functions shall be to promote professional growth among
themselves, formulate rules and policies and a code of ethics or
conduct for themselves and to act as a body to judge disciplinary
action against its members within the limits prescribed by the Board of
Trustees. Religious opinions or affiliation of the employees of the
Foundation College must not be made the subject of examination or
inquiry, except that they are educationally qualified and proficient in
the type of work required of them.
Sec. 13. There is hereby created a Board of
Consultants whose membership shall be selected by the Board of Trustees
from the heads of institutions dedicated to the custodial care,
protection, education, training of youths and children, and such other
persons whose technical know-how would be valuable assistance in
carrying out the objectives and purposes of this Act. Attendance of the
members of the Board of Consultants at the Board of Trustees meetings
shall be made by invitation of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees to
a member or members whose technical advice shall be deemed beneficial
to the welfare of the Foundation College.
Sec. 14. The Custodial Care Administrator and
foster parents shall possess a high sense of integrity and proven love
for children, have morally upright and wholesome personality, and be
physically and mentally healthy. There shall be five types of foster
parents; namely, 1) childless couples who have finished college
education; 2) newly married couples who are educationally qualified and
technically trained to handle some phases of work in the Foundation
College; 3) elderly couples who have retired from government jobs or
private firms but are still capable of being employed as foster parents
and provided that they have no dependents; 4) unmarried individuals who
are professionally or technically capable of becoming foster mothers or
foster fathers; and 5) widows or widowers who are educationally
qualified with no dependents. The President of the Foundation College
shall appoint foster parents to be confirmed by the Board of Trustees
who shall receive such salaries or compensation as the Board of
Trustees may determine, subject to Presidential Decree No. 985 and
other pertinent budget and compensation laws.
Sec. 15. Each foster parent shall live in a
government cottage with fifteen or twenty children under his or her
care grouped according to age, sex, interest or convenience, and shall
be provided with enough space for gardening and other income-producing
projects. However, children under ten years of age shall not be divided
into groups but shall be allowed to mingle with one another to have a
normal home life. The children shall be enrolled in classes according
to their aptitudes and abilities and in the vocational courses they are
best inclined. They shall be given job responsibilities where nominal
payment for service rendered shall be paid them to prepare them for
civic efficiency and to enable them to grow into self-respecting
citizens of the Republic of the Philippines.
Sec. 16. The foster parents shall be responsible
for the supply and preservation of all house equipment, clothing and
general supplies needed by the children under their care and shall make
a monthly report to the President of the Foundation College regarding
the expenses for each child. They shall coordinate with the child
guidance counselor and the doctor and dentist and other personnel to
promote and wholesome personality of the children. They shall see to it
that the children are motivated to have individual or shared projects
and shall act with loving care as real parents to the children and
provide them wholesome family life.
Sec. 17. The age limit of these children admitted
to the Foundation College shall be from seven to eighteen years. At
least two years of college vocational training shall be given to those
eighteen years old before they are released from the Foundation
College, through its Job Placement Office and to enable them fully for
better qualification. Should the child wish to leave the Foundation
College before reaching the age of eighteen years, he may do so with
the approval of the Board of Trustees upon the recommendation of the
Foundation College President: Provided, That the parents, guardians,
and relatives execute an affidavit of support for his care and
education: Provided, further, That follow-up supervision of the
President of the Foundation College for the custodial care and
education of the child is made periodically until the child reaches the
age of majority: Provided, finally, That should the parents, guardians,
and relatives fail to comply with the requirements set forth, the
Foundation College has in its discretion to take back the child in its
custodial care. To enable the Foundation College to serve as many
deserving indigent children and youth as possible, the Job Placement
Office of the Foundation College shall encourage adoptions of
rehabilitated children by families that are morally and financially
qualified to love and care children as if said children were their own
children, subject to the supervision of the Foundation College until
said children reach majority age.
Sec. 18. There shall be a secretary of the
Foundation College recommended by the President and appointed by the
Board of Trustees. He shall keep such records of the Foundation College
as may be designated by the Board.
Sec. 19. The Treasurer of the Philippines shall be
ex officio Treasurer of the Foundation College and all accounts and
expenses thereof shall be audited by the Commission on Audit or its
duly authorized representative. All disbursements shall be made in
accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the Commission on
Audit.
Sec. 20. Heads of bureaus or offices of the
national government are hereby authorized to loan or transfer upon
request of the President of the Foundation College, such apparatus or
supplies as may be needed by the Foundation College, and to detail
employees for duty therein if, in the judgment of the head of the
bureau or office, such supplies or employees can be spared without
serious detriment to public service. Employees so detailed shall
perform such duties as may be required by the President of the
Foundation College, and the time so employed shall be considered as
part of their regular official service.
Sec. 21. The superintendent of city schools and
provincial division superintendents are hereby empowered through their
district supervisors and teachers to help recruit children of adversity
who are either orphans, abandoned and neglected children from destitute
families, or children from broken homes or from families stricken by
poverty, calamities, sickness or other misfortunes. The barangay
captain shall refer an orphan child to the barrio teacher for the
latter to help file an application for custodial care and education of
said child to the President of the Foundation College who shall approve
the application papers after having been screened and recommended
jointly by the district supervisor, division superintendent and the
deputized social service development official of the province. Youths
and children from all over the Islands including those from Manila
Boy's Town, the Welfareville, the Children's Garden, the Children
Catholic Charities, the Youth Conservation Corps, or other public or
private agencies may be admitted to the Foundation College by special
arrangement with the approval of the Board of Trustees: Provided, That
the President of the Foundation College accepts the placement: And
Provided, further, that their living, education and travel expenses to
the Foundation College shall be paid by the agencies concerned.
Sec. 22. With special arrangement made by the
Chairman of the Board of Trustees, the air force, army, and the navy
and other means of public transportation shall give free passes to
those indigent children admitted to the Foundation College including
their chaperons.
Sec. 23. Out of the five thousand ninety-one
hectares at Arakan Valley, Municipality of Magpet, Province of North
Cotabato, reserved for the Mindanao Institute of Technology (formerly)
University of Southern Mindanao (presently) under Proclamation Order
No. 428, one thousand hectares shall be segregated for the purpose of
the Cotabato Foundation College of Science and Technology, described as
follows:
"Beginning at a point marked "Forest Station 135" at the junction of
Culaman River and Tinanan River thence following the Tinanan River in a
northeasterly direction for 5 kilometers, and at this point in straight
horizontal line 2 kilometers towards the Arakan River and likewise from
"Forest Station 135" at the junction of the Culaman River and Tinanan
River, to a point in straight line 2 kilometers away towards
Makalangot, beginning at the end of kilometer 2 in parallel lines of
the Tinanan River in northeasterly direction 5 kilometers away until it
meets the point of kilometer 2 to towards Arakan River."
Sec. 24. All existing appropriations for the
Children's Educational Foundation are hereby transferred to the
Cotabato Foundation College of Science and Technology, to be disbursed
in accordance with the provisions of this Act. The necessary sum for
the operation and maintenance of the College shall be provided for in
subsequent General Appropriations Acts.
Sec. 25. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Approved: June 10, 1983
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