Education in The Philippines Nature, Participation Rate Drop Outs and Language Issues
Education in The Philippines Nature, Participation Rate Drop Outs and Language Issues
Education in The Philippines Nature, Participation Rate Drop Outs and Language Issues
Reality Check:
Results of NAT among elementary and high school students and NCAE were way below the
target mean score
the poor quality of the Philippine educational system is manifested in the comparison of
completion rates between highly urbanized cities of Metro Manila
Metro Manila primary school completion rate is approximately 100 percent
Other areas of the nation such as Eastern Visayas and Mindanao hold primary completion rate of
only 30 percent
Affordability of Education
The Philippine institution has mandated the Government to allocate the highest
proportion of its budget to education
The Department of Education (DepEd) received the lion's share of the 2017 national
budget at P543.2 billion
Reality Check
Philippines still has one of the lowest budget allocations to education among the
ASEAN countries
Drop-out rate
(out of school youth)
The Philippines overall has 1.4 million children who are out-of-school
included in the top 5 countries with the highest number of out-of-school youth
Philippine Education has a large proportion of “Mismatch” between training and actual
jobs
This is the major problem at the tertiary level and it is also the cause of the existence of a
large group of educated unemployed or underemployed.
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.
This condition is also called “Educational Gap”
Brain Drain
is the gap between the information rich and information poor within a society.
This aforementioned divide in the social system has made education become part
of the institutional mechanism that creates a division between the poor and the
rich.
Lack of facilities and teacher shortage
in public schools
these include classrooms, teachers, desks and chairs, textbooks, and audio-video materials
state universities and colleges gradually raise tuition so as to have a means of purchasing facilities,
thus making tertiary education difficult to access or more often than not, inaccessible to the poor.
Aquino Administration tripled the number of classrooms in the first half of 2010
As of 2013 DepED shows that in opening classes shortage of classrooms was pegged at 19, 579. 60
million for shortage of textbooks. 2.5 million shortage regarding to chairs and 80, 937 shortages of
water and sanitation facilities.
The Department of Education also released data stating that 91% of the 61, 510 shortages in teachers
was filled up alongside appointments (5, 425 to be specific) are being processed.
Language issues