OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

OF THE PHILIPPINES

MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 317

URGING DEPARTMENTS, BUREAUS, AND OFFICES OF THE GOVERNMENT TO NOMINATE PARTICIPANTS IN THE PHILIPPINE EXECUTIVE ACADEMY

WHEREAS, Republic Act No. 3534 has declared as a national policy “to improve the competence and performance of executives and administrators in the different departments, bureaus and branches of the Philippine Government, and make available a pool of capable executives needed to accelerate the economic and social development of the country.”

WHEREAS, aware of need for the development of executive and managerial talent as one of the major means of attaining the improvement of public administration and economic and social development, there has been established the Philippine Executive Academy, College of Public Administration, University of the Philippines. This Academy has been conducting three-month session in Baguio City with a carefully devised course of studies for senior executive development.

WHEREAS, this office sees in the Academy a fine opportunity for the strengthening and reorientation of government executives to support the current efforts at government wide reorganization and administrative reform.

WHEREFORE, all departments, bureaus and offices or the government, including government-owned or controlled corporations, are hereby urged each to nominate one senior official to attend the sessions of the Academy at government expense. Nominees shall be chosen only among officials who have not gone abroad on any government-sponsored trip or seminar. For this purpose and in the absence of specific appropriations for management training, the expenses of those who may be accepted to enroll in the Philippine Executive Academy are hereby authorized to be taken from the savings of the offices concerned.

By authority of the President:

(SGD.) ERNESTO M. MACEDA

Executive Secretary

Manila, February 4, 1970

Source: Presidential Management Staff