Education

STATE OF PHILIPPINE EDUCATION
By: Bro. Armin A. Luistro FSC (DepEd Secretary)

In our present time , there are many speculation spoken by different people, regarding the implementation of the new Curriculum , K to 12.There are many question still hanging on ,Is it the solution to our poverty , underemployment and unemployment.? Does K to 12 curriculum basically enhance our students knowledge? Does this curriculum eliminates at lessen poverty in our country.
Our DepEd Secretary, Bro. Armin A. Luistro, FSC, starting whenhe became an Education Secretary, He is trying to change the traditional way of teaching, trying to resolve different problem, control and motivates the teachers, students , parents and government officials to cooperate in order to help our students to be competitive enough. In his Declaration of State of Philippine Education, he emphasize the trend and issues in Education System in: a. Philippine Education is under in Chronic Illness b. Regression in Access c. Bureaucratic Melee d. Appropriations allotted I n Education e. On the need of Reform f. The Join Forces of 3 Agencies in Government. The DOLE, TESDA, and CHED. g. The Idea of EFA 2015 and Millennium Development Goals,

1. The Philippine Education is under in chronic illness
He said that our country is under the chronic illness , it is because the system in our

country is suffering from different crisis, not only come from economic problem, but most

probably in political system. In this country, Our governmentalways change our curriculum

from time to time, for them we must faced the reality and we must adapt the changes but the

mere fact is , they don’t even support that particular in terms of facilities, tools, books and

other school materials, that’s why our curriculum is only a Trial-Error set up. Inother aspects

the reason why we still in the last in terms of Education it is because of corruption and political

problems.

2. Regression in Access
The main problem in our country is the lengthof Basic Education in Elementary and

Secondary, this is only 10 years, unlike to other country which is 12 years. This is the reason

why Filipino did not get the appropriate job on other country,

3. Bureaucratic Melee

In this case, we can say that the cultural aspects of the society are the big problem. Despite

of financial and economic crisis happen in our country, they questioned some people or other

non –government organizations if school receive donations, For them it is a form of

corruption ,but the reality is some government officials is the one who is the corrupt one.

We must face the reality that government funds is not sufficient to support different schools

that’s why we need support from other agencies.

4. Appropriations for Education

Department of Budget and Management or DBM allocatesfund for a certain school whether it

has autonomy or not. These budgets were divided depends on the numbers of enrollees per

school. Government also allocates fund for the Teachers tools, equipments, lesson plan, and

classrecords , salaries and bonuses and incentives. Education is free, according to the Deped

Memorandum. They allocated fundsfor Education but the big problem is, the higher ranking

person did not distributed that funds to different divisions, instead of they corrupt that

funds. That’s why DepEdis number2 in Corruption

5. On the Need for Reform

Our Educationsystem needs a reformation, in order to make our graduates be competitive enough. Reform will start on the top down to the lower ranking position. Reformation willlead us tothe better world, better society and better graduates. Reformation not only in Educational system but also in the society, most especially in our government presently. Reform in policies, avoid corruption, because new ideas, new curriculum, and helpus tobuild mind of a graduates professionally growth.