The Coordinating Council of Private Educational Associations of the Philippines (Cocopea), one of the country’s largest umbrella organizations of private schools, shows its full support to the appointment of Dr. Prospero de Vera 3rd (4th from left) as the new chairman of the Commission on Higher Education during Cocopea’s board meeting at the Manila Polo Club in Makati City on Oct. 29, 2018. Also in the photo are (from left) Cocopea Board Member Dr. Horacio M. Montefrio, president of the Technial Vocational Schools Association of the Philippines; Dante Francis ‘Klink’ Ang 2nd, president and CEO of The Manila Times and dean of The Manila Times College; Cocopea Board Member Dr. Lourdes Almeda-Sese, president of the Philippine Association of Private Schools, Colleges and Universities; Cocopea Board Member Jose Paulo E. Campus; and Cocopea legal counsel Atty. Joseph Noel Estrada.