THE DEPARTMENT of Education maintained its ISO Certification for Quality Management Systems during the Surveillance Audit on its National QMS Pilot Offices this month.

The audit was conducted on June 6-7 to determine if the established QMS of DepEd pilot offices was implemented, maintained, and sustained for continual improvement.

The TÜV NORD yielded no nonconformities for the DepEd’s Central Office, Regional Office IV-A CALABARZON, Schools Division Office of Biñan City, Biñan Elementary School, and Biñan Integrated National High School.

For this year, Undersecretary Michael Wesley Poa led the Executive Committee in the audit for Top Management, together with the Quality Management Representative Undersecretary Gloria Jumamil-Mercado.

Undersecretaries Annalyn Sevilla, Revsee Escobedo, Nolasco Mempin and Omar Romero, and Assistant Secretaries Alma Torio, G.H. Ambat, Dexter Galban and Noel Baluyan were also in attendance.

Meanwhile, the pilot offices in RO IV-A were led by Regional Director Atty. Alberto Escobarte, Division Superintendent Manuela Tolentino (SDO Biñan), and School Heads Pilar De Castro and Oliver Caliwag (Biñan Elementary School and Biñan Integrated National High School.