THE UNIVERSITY of San Carlos inaugurated three additional smart classrooms in its Downtown Campus and Talamban Campus earlier this month.

Topline Business Development Corporation, represented by School of Business and Economics alumnus Eugene Erik C. Lapasaran Lim, made the donation as part of the University’s Research, Infrastructure, Scholarship, and Endowments Program on October 12, 2023.

Additionally, the family of the late Jon Ramon Aboitiz also donated two smart classrooms in the Downtown and Talamban campuses for the university’s science and engineering programs.

Meanwhile, former USC Dean of the School of Education Professor Richard Jugar will take part in the Policy Forum on Student Workload Institutionalization and Authentic Assessment Adoption on October.

The two-day forum will focus on the “consideration of student workload in the development and implementation of curriculum across different programs of study.”

Aside from USC, the collaborative event features other universities including the Ateneo de Manila University, the University of San Agustin, and the host university, West Visayas State University.

According to Dr. Jugar, USC was the first higher education institution in the Philippines to implement workload-based curriculum planning. As such, it is considered a full exemplar, successfully integrating both policy and practice.

With this milestone, the school is working with the ASEAN University Network to disseminate best practices.

The event is built from the Erasmus-funded Measuring and Comparing Achievements of Learning Outcomes in Higher Education in Asia Project.

“The goal is to involve the Commission on Higher Education to encourage the development of a national policy for its formal adoption and countrywide implementation,” Dr. Jugar shared.