A survey of the educational system of the Philippine islands by the Board of educational survey, created under acts 3162 and 3196 of the Philippine Legislature.

668 EDUCATIONAL SURVEY OF THE PHILIPPINES

least once during a semester; (2) to advise students to move out of a boarding or rooming
place when said place does not provide the necessary minimum facilities for healthful
living; and (3) to submit from time to time to the authorities concerned a list of approved
boarding houses in Manila for the student's information. This committee was also requested
to study the feasibility of drafting an ordinance of licensing boarding houses to be
presented in the Municipal Board.
(c) The opening of an Employment Exchange in the University under the management of the students in the Commerce Course. The function of said Exchange shall
be to secure employment for the University students who may be completely or partly selfsupporting. The opening of such an Exchange will enable the students concerned to choose
from different employments available for him, and at the same time it will eliminate the
unnecessary worry and loss of time incident to an unsystematic search for work.
Nearly two years have elapsed, however, since the approval contained
in this resolution was given and so far as the Commission could discover,
nothing has happened. Yet the evil is a crying one and action requires
no funds. The Commission recommends that either a particular official
or a faculty committee be appointed at once and be required actually to
function in this most important part of university life. The Commission is
so much impressed with the need of action in the matter of supervising the
personal affairs and moral life of the students that it has apparently
slighted the equally important subject of vocational guidance. This has
not been the intention. Many students at the University come from
homes where the parents know little of the requirements for success in different vocations. In some cases, on the basis of an erroneous belief in the
aptitudes of their sons for particular vocations, parents advise unwisely.
Students themselves sometimes make choices of callings which are superficially attractive to them but for which they have no real capacity.
How important it is that student be directed into a field of work for which
his previous study, his personal preference, and his natural aptitude,
best fit him is obvious. A former president once recommended that a
professor of individual attention who had training in applied psychology
and experience in vocational guidance be appointed to supervise this
work. The Commission approves the recommendation most heartily.
Were such an appointment made the incumbent might have supervision
of the whole field of student welfare. If it is not made, the faculty
committee recommended above must organize proper measures for vocational guidance.
CONFERRING DEGREES.-The requirements for degrees vary with
the degrees. The following are the total number of credits demanded
for the bachelor's degree in the College of Liberal Arts. They include
three for compulsory military training:
Credits
Bachelor of Arts.....-....... ---.........-....-...-. 132
Bachelor of Science................................. 140
Bachelor of Philosophy............................ 136

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