Improving quality of basic education becomes a priority national concern

President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. and Vice President Sara Duterte led the Basic Education Summit held the other day to craft appropriate strategies for achieving desired outcomes for the country’s youth. In 2021, the Department of Education reported a total enrollment of 27.2 million from Kindergarten to Grade-12 . This is roughly equal to almost 25 percent of the country’s population.

The Covid-19 pandemic wiped out the painstaking gains in improving the quality of education achieved over the previous decades. In September 2021, the National Economic and Development Authority estimated that one year of shutdown would result in ₱11 trillion in productivity losses over an individual’s 40-year lifespan as a member of the labor force.

An even more basic problem is ensuring universal access to basic education. Thanks to the government’s integrated development approach – as exemplified by the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program – children from the neediest families were able to enroll and sustain school attendance through a combination of nutrition, maternal health and livelihood programs augmented by direct cash grants.

Vice President Duterte, who is also the DepED secretary, deplores that Filipino students are “not academically proficient,” emphasizing the need to refocus the curriculum toward raising aptitude levels in reading, writing, and mathematics. Latest surveys show that the Philippines as the tailender among ASEAN countries, behind Vietnam, Cambodian, and Myanmar based on standardized testing scores.

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

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