Northern Samar Colleges, formerly Northern Samar Academy, located along Annunciacion corner Roxas Streets, Brgy. J. P. Rizal, Catarman, Northern Samar, was established in 1949 and incorporated in 1950 in response to the clamor for a school that could meet the needs of a particular segment of the town populace. At that time, there were only two schools in town; one was a private Roman Catholic high school; another, a public agricultural school about three kilometers away from the town proper across the river. There was no bridge then connecting the town to the road going that way and it was accessible only by banca. Public buses were scarce and tricycles and pedicabs were non-existent by then. A student from town had to hike the distance after crossing the river.
To meet the need for an alternative school that was more affordable and accessible, concerned citizens in the town proper incorporated themselves to put up the Northern Samar Colleges, Inc. offering high school and the so-called then “inverted education” courses to meet the need for qualified public school teachers. Shortly after, the education courses were phased out and the school was named Northern Samar Academy offering only high school and some short-term vocational courses such as tailoring, dressmaking, cosmetology, etc. which vocational courses were gradually phased out. The high school program was the main thrust of the school until its 50th anniversary which ended the corporate life of NSA.
To celebrate its 50th Jubilee Year, NSA was converted into a non-stock corporation in School Year 2000 and expanded its course offerings to include preschool and complete grade school from grades 1 to 6. It also expanded its academic programs to include collegiate courses in Education, Information Technology, Office Administration, Hotel and Hospitality Management and Business Administration. It also offered technical education and skills development short courses requiring less than four years to complete.
In 2018, expansion of the student population necessitated moving the college courses to Barangay Dalakit, along JP Rizal Highway so that basic education classes – preschool, grade school, junior high school, senior high school – are concentrated in the old location in Barangay JP Rizal in town proper.
PHILOSOPHY
NSC embraces and operates the following educational philosophies
- Education shall develop the total person, everything that is human in the individual.
- Education enables the individual to become creative and critical thinkers and life-long learners.
- The school and the family are partners in the exercise of the educational rights and duties of the family.
- The school shall form individuals who are concerned for the common good, professionally competent, enterprising and creative, capable of making free and morally upright choices, and can act as positive agents of change in society.
- The school shall be sensitive and responsive to the needs of the community which sustains it, and it must strive to uplift the moral, cultural, and material level of society.
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VISION
Northern Samar Colleges as a premier school for community leaders successful professionals and workers with world-class technical skills and competencies.
MISSION
To attain its vision and achieve its aims, the NORTHERN SAMAR COLLEGES shall:
- Strive to reach a level of excellence in its research and teaching programs that will earn for itself a place among the most prestigious educational institutions in the area.
- Adopt advance research and teaching techniques so as to become source of innovative forms of learning, as well as contribute to a better balance between the cost and quality of research, communication, and education.
- Adopt its teaching programs, founded upon basic research and the study of humanities, to the actual needs of a society undergoing progressive change and of wide region promoting international cooperation.
- Seek, while working closely with other Philippine institutions, wider regional and international recognition so that it can be present in intellectual policy dialogues.
- Strengthen and broaden the avenues for cooperation so that it can effectively contribute to social development and obtain from various sectors of society the necessary support to carry out its extension work.
- Organize itself in a manner conducive to internal efficiency and effective coordination, while keeping enough flexibility, to enable all members of the school community to contribute freely and responsibly to the fulfilment of their common tasks.
- Strive to attain, as a necessary condition for its autonomous development, a level of economic self-sufficiency that will allow the school to firmly establish itself as a center of academic excellence to initiate projects, and to admit well-qualified students from the underprivileged sector of society.
United in this common faith and fired with the zeal of committed service, the NSC community in its Board of Trustees, administrators, teaching and non-teaching personnel, students and parents, commit ourselves to:
OBJECTIVES
The founders of Northern Samar Colleges profess the following institutional objectives for the school community:
- To provide quality education with strong adherence to time –honored universal values
- To enhance learning through school facilities and dynamic teaching staff
- To strive to build the institution as a place for character formation with a high level of participation and unity in creating an atmosphere conducive to learning.