THE Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has closed down 218 out of the 491 nursing schools and programs nationwide because of their consistent poor performance in the licensure examinations administered by the Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC).

However, CHED’s executive director Julito Vitriolo declined to identify the names of the schools since 77 of these institutions have appealed their cases.

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