Amendment to CHED Charter (RA 7722) towards Comprehensive Higher Education Reform Law

This seeks to pursue the recommended measures of the Philippine Education Sector Study (PESS), to eliminate the conflict of interest between the system of internal and external governance due to CHED's chairmanship of the governing boards. Other needed provisions include: for LGU-created/funded HEIs to be part and parcel of the overall governance of higher education, for them to conform to national standards and best practices; clear-cut definition of the functions of regional offices; strengthen the management of the Higher Education Development Fund; strengthen, safeguard and institutionalize normative financing; and update private higher education provisions of the Education Act of 1978.