CHED officials wants field trips suspended after Tanay crash. This accident killed 15 students that made the officials a decision to suspend field trips. The suspension will cover all field trips and educational tours in all colleges and universities until the investigation is completed.
It will be safe for every students if this recommendation by the officials will pass. Also, for the students to be free for any accident like this. The government also wants to keep this issue out for so many problems that they have.
The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) says it prohibits schools from requiring field trips and excursions.
Field trips should only be incentives and should not affect the final grades of any subject, it added.
Following the bus accident, CHED issued a temporary ban on all out-of-town and educational field trips for all public and private universities.
CHED Commissioner Prospero De Vera said this is the first time such a moratorium is being issued on educational trips in universities.
Parents said if the school had not required the trip, some 50 kilometers from Manila, fewer people would have been injured and died.
The Taytay Public Information Office said the bus was carrying 58 students when it lost its brakes and crashed into an electric pole, killing 14 students and the bus driver.
Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella on Tuesday expressed condolences to the victims families.
