Manila, May 29 -- President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has accepted the courtesy resignation of Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Chairperson Prospero de Vera III, Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin announced Thursday.

De Vera would be replaced by CHED Commissioner Shirley Agrupis, a former president of the Mariano Marcos State University in Ilocos Norte, Bersamin said in a press briefing in Malacanang.

Appointed as CHED Commissioner in 2016, De Vera became officer-in-charge of the agency in January 2018 and was officially appointed as chairperson in October 2018 by then president Rodrigo Duterte.

He was reappointed by Marcos in 2022.

Bersamin said the leadership change in CHED would provide the agency a "fresh start."

De Vera thank...