Welcome

to
Learning Module 6
Education
Module Learning Outcomes

After studying the module, you should be able to:

1. describe the educational system in the
country; and
2. enumerate the different government
programs on education.
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 Education in the Philippines is
provided by public and private
schools, colleges, universities, and
technical and vocational institutions.
Funding for public education comes
from the national government.
Tri-focalization of Education Management

RA 7722 and RA 7796 created:

 DepEd for basic education
 CHED for higher education
 TESDA for post secondary, middle level
manpower training and development
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education
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 Budget Allocation-Fiscal Year 2019

 With a total budget of P659.3 billion, the Education

Sector remains the top recipient under the 2019
National Budget in terms of allocation.
 Under the 2019 budget proposal, the Department of
Education (DepEd) would receive P528.8 billion,
followed by the SUCs, P65.2 billion; the
Commission on Higher Education (CHED), P50.4
billion; and the Technical Education and Skills
Development Authority (TESDA), P14.8 billion.
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 Around P34.7 billion has also been allocated

for the DepEd’s Basic Educational Facilities
Program under the K to 12 basic education
regime. The budget will be used to build 4,110
classrooms (P10.2 billion); procure 43,200
schools seats (P2.14 billion); repair and
rehabilitate 33,672 classrooms (P10.5 billion);
build 1,320 computer, technical-vocational, and
science laboratories (P4 billion); and energize
1,710 schools in off-grid areas (P2.7 billion).
 The DepEd will also spend P10 billion to
purchase textbooks and instruction materials
(P1.7 billion), acquire Science and Math
equipment (P2.12 billion), procure technical-
vocational equipment (P2 billion), and fund
its computerization program (P4 billion) next
year.
 P18.8 billion will finance the voucher
program for private senior high school and
P10.7 billion will go to the education
service contracting program for private
junior high school.
Maintenance of basic education facilities

A total of P126.03 billion is alloted

for provision and maintenance of basic
education facilities; P39.3 billion for
government assistance and subsidies;
P22.96 billion for operations of school;
and P8.65 billion for the DepEd
computerization program.
Supporting the K to 12 program

DepEd will continue supporting the K to 12

program next year by proposing the following
allocation of funds:
 P2.99 billion for 38.9 million activity sheets and
textbooks
 P8.5 billion for 22,046 information and
communications technology packages
 P4.6 billion for the technical-vocational tools and
equipment of 1,356 schools
 P3.2 billion for 3,183 sets of Science and Math
packages
 P5.3 billion for the school-based feeding program
benefitting some 2.5 million students
 The K to 12 Program covers Kindergarten and
12 years of basic education (six years of primary
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education, four years of Junior High School, and

two years of Senior High School [SHS]).
To help students pay for SHS, DepEd created a
voucher program that will subsidize the education for
Grade 10 completers who will study in private schools.
This aims to help ease parents’ worries in paying their
children’s tuition fees for Senior High School.
Provide workshops and laboratories

A total of P2.99 billion is also

allocated for the construction of 24,076
workshops and laboratories. The
department wants to use P2.97 million to
provide electricity to 2,398 schools as
well.
 The Commission on Higher Education
(CHED) in its en banc meeting on February 13,
2018 has approved the inclusion of 78 Local
Universities and Colleges (LUCs) that are
eligible to accept students who will avail of free
tuition and other school fees under the
Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education
Act of 2017 or RA 10931 starting SY 2018-
2019.Local Universities and Colleges (LUCs)
are educational institutions established by local
government units through an ordinance and
other enabling acts.
Government Assistance to Students and Teachers in
Private Education
 Educational Service Contracting (ESC)
The Educational Service Contracting
scheme, or ESC, is a program provided for by
Republic Act 8545 (amending R.A. 6728), or the
“Expanded Government Assistance to Students
and Teachers in Private Education, or GASTPE.
Its main objective is to decongest public
secondary schools by “contracting” the excess
capacities of private high schools through the
provision of subsidies for students who, otherwise,
would have gone to the public high schools.
Where are we now in Education?
 DepEd data showed that in 2017, it
has served a total of 26.9 million
learners: 26.3 million learners enrolled in
public and private schools, and 641,584
learners under the Alternative Learning
System (ALS) – surpassing the target
enrolment for Kindergarten, elementary,
and secondary education.
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The Department also cited a higher

participation rate in 2017 for Kindergarten increased
from 65% (2016) to 84% (2017); and for Junior High
School from 74% (2016) to 76% (2017). “Furthermore,
Transition Rate from Grade 10 to Grade 11 reached
93.3% compared to the Transition Rate from 4th year
high school to college at less than 50% prior to the
implementation of Senior High School (SHS),” DepEd
said.
 DepEd also noted that by “making the
learning environment more conducive and
modern,” crucial basic education facilities and
resources are improved, thus, from July 2016 to
June 2018, 22,133 classrooms and 1,309
Technical-Vocational (Tech-Voc) laboratories were
constructed; and 82,725 sets of schools seats
(one set includes 45 seats, one teacher’s chair
and table) were delivered. As of end of December
2017, 68.6 million textbooks and instructional
materials were printed and delivered to schools
nationwide.
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The improvement in the facilities,

DepEd said, contributed to the improved
basic ratios: Teacher-to-learner ratio from
1:32 (2016) to 1:31 (2017) for elementary and
from 1:26 (2016) to 1:25 (2017) for
secondary; Classroom-to-learner ratio from
1:35 (2016) to 1:33 (2017) for elementary and
from 1:43 (2016) to 1:36 (2017) for
secondary.
 DepEd noted that for school year 2017-
2018, a total of 977,318 junior high school
grantees and around 1.29 million SHS
grantees were able to enroll in private schools
through the Education Service Contracting
(ESC) and the SHS Voucher Program,
respectively.
 “The end of the school year also
saw more than 1.2 million learners, the
first batch of SHS, graduate,” DepEd
said. “
 In 2017, the National Economic and Development
Authority of the Philippines published the
Philippine Development Plan, 2017-2022, detailing the
country’s aspirations for the next five years. The plan
envisions the Philippines becoming an upper-middle
income country by 2022, based on more inclusive
economic growth that will reduce inequalities and
poverty, particularly in rural areas. Human capital
development is a key element in this strategy and has
been the impetus behind various political reforms over
the past years. Recent education reforms have
sought to boost enrollment levels, graduation rates
and mean years of schooling in elementary and
secondary education, and to improve the quality of
higher education.
If you have some
concerns concerning the
module, please bring
them up with your
professor in the
classroom for
clarifications and further
discussions.
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