Section 4Sec./Art. 4

The Expanded Tertiary Education Equivalency and Accreditation Program. - The Expanded Tertiary Education Equivalency and Accreditation Program, hereinafter referred to as the ETEEAP, is hereby institutionalized as a comprehensive alternative learning program of the government for tertiary education based on academic equivalency, accreditation, validation, and recognition of prior learning or the knowledge and expertise derived from relevant work experiences and from formal, non-formal, and informal training that harness the student's full potential.

As an integral part of the tertiary education system, it shall allow the undergraduate degree for high school graduates, senior high school graduates, post-secondary technical-vocational graduates, and college undergraduates, including working professionals who were unable to finish or advance into college, or have earned a bachelor's degree and wish to obtain a special graduate degree program without going through the traditional schooling methods.

The ETEEAP shall be used to identify, assess, validate, and assign equivalent undergraduate level and special graduate programs of prior learning from formal, non-formal, and informal learning systems, relevant work experiences, and completions of competency enrichment and other program requirements for the grant of appropriate academic degrees to qualified individuals.

A bachelor's degree holder may apply for equivalency and accreditation of prior and work-based learning towards the grant of up to the second degree only: Provided, That such sources of learning are related to the second degree being sought under the ETEEAP.