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Discuss The Historical Foundation of Curriculum in The Philippines
Discuss The Historical Foundation of Curriculum in The Philippines
AQUINO
III-BSE ENGLISH
From 1986 to the present • The bilingual policy in education was reiterated
in the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines. • (EDCOM), Congress passed
Republic Act 7722 and Republic Act 7796 in 1994, creating theCommission
on Higher Education (CHED) and the Technical Education and Skills
Development Authority (TESDA). The institute governing basic education
was thus renamed in 2001 as the Department of Education (DepEd).
The quality of public school education is generally considered to have
declined since the post-war years, mainly due to insufficient funds. The
Department of Education aims to address the major problems affecting
public education by 2010. • Private schools are able to offer better facilities
and education, but are also much more expensive. There is a wide variety
of private schools, including all-boys’ and all-girls’ schools, religious
schools, non-sectarian schools, Chinese schools, special schools, and
international schools. Due to economic difficulties, there has been a recent
increase in the popularity of home schooling and open universities in the
Philippines.
Enhance Basic Education Act of 2013 (K to 12) •PRO’S OF K to 12 •At par
with international 12 year basic education •Pursue protective
employment, entrepreneurship and higher educational studies •Graduates
is expected to be equipped with 21st century skills.
JOHN PAUL P. AQUINO
III-BSE ENGLISH
First of which, is the quality of education. In the year 2014, the National
The second issue that the Philippine educational system faces is the budget
Affordability of Education
Mismatch
There is a large mismatch between educational training and actual jobs. This
stands to be a major issue at the tertiary level and it is furthermore the cause
of the continuation of a substantial amount of educated yet unemployed or
underemployed people. According to Dean Salvador Belaro Jr., the Cornell-
educated Congressman representing 1-Ang Edukasyon Party-list in the House
of Representatives, the number of educated unemployed reaches around
600,000 per year. He refers to said condition as the "education gap".
Brain Drain
these include classrooms, teachers, desks and chairs, textbooks, and audio-
video materials. According to 2003 Department of Education
system. In the year 2014, the National Achievement Test (NAT) and the
National Career Assessment Examination (NCAE) results show that there had
been a decline in the quality of Philippine education at the elementary and
secondary levels. The students' performance in both the 2014 NAT and NCAE
were excessively below the target mean score. Having said this, the poor
quality of the Philippine educational system is manifested in the comparison
of completion rates between highly urbanized city of Metro Manila, which is
also happens to be not only the country's capital but the largest metropolitan
area in the Philippines and other places in the country such as Mindanao and
Eastern Visayas. Although Manila is able to boast a primary school completion
rate of approximately 100 percent, other areas of the nation, such as Eastern
Visayas and Mindanao, hold primary school completion rate of only 30 percent
or even less. This kind of statistic is no surprise to the education system in the
JOHN PAUL P. AQUINO
III-BSE ENGLISH
Philippine context, students who hail from Philippine urban areas have the
financial capacity to complete at the very least their primary school education.
The second issue that the Philippine educational system faces is the budget