MSEditorial Let’s reform the K-12 program It’s high time the Department of Education headed by Vice President Sarah Duterte gave priority to reviewing and eventually reforming the K-12 program.
It’s high time the Department of Education headed by Vice President Sarah Duterte gave priority to reviewing and eventually reforming the K-12 program.
What has been trumpeted as a savior for poor families which cannot afford to complete four years of college education turned out to be a failure—inadequately and poorly programmed. The Philippines, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and the World Bank, had the longest pandemic-induced school closures among the 122 countries covered, breaking the 70-week mark since the pandemic began in 2020.Prolonged school closures, the Word Bank added, would aggravate the learning gap and result in decreased productivity and earnings by the time the students join the workforce.
Examples are Electrical and mechanical courses whose two-year course graduates from K-12 program could progress to the engineering profession if they pursue college degrees.
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