Educational Planning (Continuation)

Future Patterns of Higher Education in General in the Philippines

 As the country continues to experiment in the formation of a Government, shifting
at one extreme from the laissez-faire towards more centralized control, the
educational system shift gears seeking an integral role within this ideological
transition.
 Three major thrusts of the purpose of higher education:
 Development orientation
 Future orientation
 Societal scanning
These three new purposes of higher education are particularly relevant to the Filipino
situation.
 There will be a drastic, if not decline, in the number of private colleges and
universities as we stand them to be.

 It is difficult to project student enrollments in higher education over the next

decades because it will undergo many new articulations.
 It is possible that a larger Career Guidance and Personal Counseling service will be
provided through a consortium of schools.
 The Government may take the initiative further here and set up a Board of
Investments type of office for education hooked up to manpower training.
 Some sectors like the religious affiliated institutions will attempt to set up an
educational system of their own, working with the framework of national goals.
 As government increases its aids and incentives to the private sector, it will demand
more visible performance criteria.
 Some of the more dramatic changes in higher education will be in the non-formal
system.
 Some important offices will be set up in colleges and universities:
 A Director for Urban Affairs
 Office of Institutional Research and Planning
 Division of Extension or Alternative Education
 The so-called ICR Triad of the private sector (Integration, Complementation,
Regional Relevance) will receive more recognition as performance criteria are drawn
up for support of priority programs by government.
 The linkage between schools and government will be a forced relationship to the type
of central government we have in the Philippines today.
 Elite schools will remain.
 The plans of the Human Settlement Commission and the PPDD of the Department of
Public Works and Communication will affect the regional distribution of educational
institutions.
 Schools will try to develop students committed to:
 Combating poverty,
 Upholding social justice
  Defending humanism in a growing technological society
 Supporting national goals
 Research and development will be geared towards:
 Agricultural and natural resources
 Exports
 Energy uses
 Mineral exploration and production
 Education and schooling therefore are no longer considered as synonymous.
 Conclusions
It is not enough that the government makes the choices alone regarding the
direction of this society and the role education must play.
Need for New Initiatives: Pros and Cons
 The past 5-year planning exercises, both in economic sector and in the education
subsector, have failed to productively addresses the perennial issues of:
 The poverty or our mass of people
 The lack of a Filipino quality and character
 Our bias towards Western and American national habits
 The lack of alternatives and options
Franco says . . . “We have planned like we were one huge land-base country like America
or Thailand or India when we are not. We are an archipelago, islands upon islands
fragmented and split up in many seas and rivers and lakes. And every year, we have natural
disasters …This is not a sunshine-paradise country.”

 Lack of school calendar- same throughout the year for all the islands, when the
summer seasons and the rainy seasons are different.

“We don’t have to go by past history, which has not been the best, but we can start
engineering a new history in the future-by looking at archipelagic planning, island
planning, regional planning, micro planning-against the context of national
aspirations and goals.”

 First, focus on your institution and your island or area, and then put it in the national context
as a second step. But value the differences, the dissimilarities, and the diversity.

-JBV MASE – 2 JULY 20, 2019 EDUC. MANAGEMENT

 SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES COLLEGE
Graduates School
J. Pacana St., Licuan Cagayan de Oro City

Secondary Education 208

EDUCATIONAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT

Chapter 3

FUTURISTIC PLANNING
Submitted by:

MELITH D. SALERING
ETHYL GRACE N. PAHUYO
JOAN B. VECILLA
MASE – 2

Submitted to:

ERLINDA DAEL, PhD.

Sec. Educ. 208 Professor