About 57 West Negros College graduates from Cebu City yesterday filed a third petition for mandamus before the Cebu Regional Trial Court against the Professional Regulations Commission to demand the release of their board examination results, Nelia Jesusa Ligaya-Gonzales said yesterday.

Earlier, Gonzales and 145 other WNC graduates from Iloilo had also filed petitions for mandamus against the PRC and the Board of Nursing for the release of their examination results.

WNC and its nursing graduates from Bacolod are also set to file petitions for mandamus before the Manila RTC this week, their lawyer Leon Moya said.

The results of 460 WNC graduates who took the nursing board examinations have been withheld by the PRC, pending an investigation into the papers of 62 alleged takers from the school.

A probe is also reportedly underway on the alleged nursing course overloading by WNC, which the college has denied.

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has directed the PRC to resolve the problem that caused the withholding of the nursing board examination results of WNC graduates at the earliest possible time.

Presidential Adviser for Western Visayas Rafael Coscolluela Sunday met with all parties involved in order to come up with a fact folder on the case to submit to the President.

Yesterday Rep. Ignacio Arroyo (5th district, Neg. Occ.) also met with WNC students in Iloilo to hear their side and see how he can assist them.

Iloilo RTC Branch 22 Judge Guiljie Delfin-Lim is set to hear this morning a motion filed by WNC nursing graduates asking the court to take custody of their nursing board examination papers and answer sheets.

In their motion for the court to take custody of their examination documents, the WNC graduates said they have received information that their results can be manipulated by the respondents. There is a danger that the results of their board examination will be changed especially if they passed the examination, they said.*CPG

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