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CHED promotes educational tourism
to enhance economy
More foreign students are coming
to the country to study due to educational tourism
now being promoted by the Commission on Higher Education
(CHED).
Dr. Carlito Puno, CHED chairman, told newsmen here
that at least 2,000 students from India and 200 from
Nepal are set to arrive in the Philippines in October
this year in response to the vigorous campaign on
educational tourism by CHED.
This is similar to the medical tourism now being promoted
by the Department of Health in cooperation with highly
equipped tertiary private hospitals and medical centers
throughout the country.
"In educational tourism, we are using education
as point of entry in tourism and other economic activities,"
Puno explained.
Puno said educational tourism is not new because there
are already several foreign students in the Philippines,
particularly Koreans, who, most of them, have chosen
to enroll in colleges and universities in Baguio City
and Cebu.
Before this, the country had an influx of Iranian
and Sudanese students....
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