Manila, Feb. 18 -- A subcommittee of the Senate committee on education, arts and culture is set to hold a joint hearing on Wednesday on a measure proposing the re-institutionalization of the mandatory military and civic Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program.
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, chair of the subcommittee tasked to study the ROTC revival, said the guests invited to the public hearing include Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff Benjamin Madrigal, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, Education Secretary Leonor Briones, Commission on Higher Education chair Prospero de Vera, and University of the Philippines Vanguard Executive Director Robert Coscolluela.
Gatchalian, who authored Senate Bill No. 200, said ROTC ...