With the Edcom II set to begin this year its study on follow-up reforms to the educational system, a senior lawmaker has asked the new bicameral panel to consider as one of its priorities a review of what medium of instruction.
With the Second Congressional Commission on Education set to begin this year its study on follow-up reforms to the educational system, a senior lawmaker has asked the new bicameral panel to consider as one of its priorities a review of what medium of instruction to use from hereon in the country’s schools.
For Villafuerte, such a review has gained greater urgency following President Marcos’s remarks in a one-on-one dialogue with World Economic Forum President Borge Brende on the sidelines of WEF’s annual forum in Davao, Switzerland that the Philippines’s boasts of a “demographic dividend” advantage of having Asia’s youngest work force that is well-trained, sophisticated, on equal footing with that of any other country in terms of technological know-how, and proficient in English.
“Keeping our labor force highly attractive for local and international employers is one means for the Marcos administration’s desired economic transformation to succeed, as it would go a long way in, first, attracting more overseas investors to set up shop here; and, second, for international businesses to keep hiring our workers and thereby increasing the dollar remittances of migrant Filipinos,” Villafuerte said.
Edcom II is tasked to set “specific, targeted, measurable and time-bound solutions” aimed at developing a “more holistic, harmonized and coordinated education ecosystem.” Via a review of the mandates of the Department of Education, Commission on Higher Education and Technical Education and Skills Development Authority.
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