The Philippines Has A Declining Quality Of Education In The Philippines

Philippines welcomes trials to become important part of the global community, and education is one of the aspects to consider since it is still a top priority in the countries context. The Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) deliberate plan of 2011-2016 stated that ““Philippine has a declining quality of education”” (Barlongo 2015). Accomplishment scores highlight Filipino understudies ' poor execution in national examinations. The National Achievement Test (NAT) results for grade 6 in SY 2009-2010 indicated just a 69.21% passing rate while the NAT results for secondary school is at a low 46.38. In addition, the Philippines positioned the most minimal in 2008 even with just the science secondary schools joining the Advanced Mathematics.

The government states that “Enhancing the quality of basic education in the Philippines is urgent and critical” (Barlongo 2015). At present, the Philippines is the only country in Asia and among the three remaining countries in the world that uses a 10-year basic education cycle (Shahani 2015). K to 12 education system means kindergarten plus six years of elementary, four years of junior high school and two years of senior high school. The K to 12 is aimed at addressing the deficiency of the Philippine educational system particularly in the basic education, the elementary and high school, in order to meet the standards of the international education criteria and for the students to be at par with the students in neighboring countries. According to Arni Abueva, a journalist who supports the reformation, “Filipinos are known to be competitive in the international community. However, our current education system hinders us from becoming even more competitive.” Through this law, it will help many Filipinos to gain competitive edge. On the other hand, higher education institutions are not yet geared up to K to 12’s domino

In fact, it will only extend all those problems by two more years. As claimed by Felipe, a University of the Philippines professor and former deputy minister of education, and Porio, executive director of the Fund for Assistance to Private Education (FAPE), ““Many educators seem to expect too much of the 12-year educational cycle. More likely, lengthening the cycle is so concrete a step that it gives them the feeling they are doing something about a faulty system”” (Calderon 2014). As of now, with the ten-year curriculum, there is already desperate lack of classrooms and schools. The research by Cyril John Barlongo of the Business Mirror, a business newspaper in the Philippines, showed that “Needed for the new curriculum are 30,000 new classrooms”. The reality of public education in the Philippines is a nightmare for the working class and oppressed masses. As stated by Ronald Meinardus (2003) in The Crisis of Public Education in the Philippines, ““With 95 per cent of all elementary students attending public schools, the educational crisis in the Philippines is basically a crisis of public education”” (Calderon 2014) The public schools cannot turn the students away when they show up to enroll, to cope many public schools have crammed as many students as they can inside the classroom with classrooms packed with chairs from wall to wall. Taken from the article Dilapidated, overcrowded