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Latest data from the DepEd showed that only 40% or some 25,700 of the 60,000 public and private schools have reopened for face-to-face classes. Some schools are having a hard time meeting the building requirements for in-person classes, such as having separate doors for entrance and exit and making available basic health facilities, including hand washing facilities and school clinics.
“For the things that we could have done, in the recent years, we should have reopened our schools quicker. Our neighbors, even [those] who are much poorer than us in terms of GDP were able to open their schools quicker,” PBEd’s Basillote said. Data from the World Bank said that the Philippines’ learning-adjusted years of school would be pushed back from 7.5 years pre-pandemic to 5.9 to 6.5 years, depending on the length of further school closures and the effectiveness of the remote learning setup.
The same sentiment was shared Project Saysay founder Ian Alfonso, saying that the teachers’ education program needs retrofitting. For instance, graduates of elementary education programs in college don’t have specialization in social studies where in fact they are the ones teaching history lessons under the basic education curriculum.
“We are calling for the increase in budget for education, at least 6% of the GDP,” she said. Currently, the Philippine government is only allotting 3% of its GDP for the education sector, lower than the global standard of 6%.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
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