3 November 2016

Quality, Accessible, Relevant,

and Liberating Basic Education for All
Leonor Magtolis Briones
Secretary, Department of Education
Education Summit 2016, 3 November 2016
SMX Convention Center, Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay City

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Foundation

Guided by education  Circumscribed by 
mandates of the  international 
Constitution  commitments

Embodies ideas of the 
Builds on gains and 
new Secretary and 
lessons from past and 
priorities of the 
ongoing programs
Duterte administration

Our vision and agenda is a work in progress, for feedback,

discussion, and refinements throughout the term.

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 3

1 Raise the quality of

education 2 Make education
accessible

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Make education relevant
Make education
to the urgent needs and
opportunities of our nation truly liberating
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 4

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1 Raise the quality

of education

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Effective attainment of learning standards will continue to be

the foremost challenge for the current and long term

Performance in National Achievement Test
80.00% 80.00%
ELEMENTARY SECONDARY
77.00%
65%

60.00%
53.77%
51.41% 49.48%
48.90%

69.97%
70.00% 68.88% 69.10% 40.00%

66.79%

20.00%

60.00% 0.00%

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We are committed to pursue the

full implementation of K to 12

K to 12 is not about simply adding

school years to basic education to be
at par with international norm, but
more about the content and the
intended outcomes in terms of
upgrading education quality.

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 7

K to 12 overhauls basic education curriculum to make

learners ready for higher education or work anywhere

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Challenges that we faced on K to 12

Magnitude of
our basic
education
Massive education inputs required
system

Providing
Hiring and textbooks, learning
Student Constructing new
training of materials,
population of classrooms
teachers laboratories, and
over 25 million computer
packages
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Massive inputs required: Launching of Senior

High School Demands Even More Resources
118,686 Classrooms 3.624 M School Seats
constructed in 2010-16 distributed in 2012-15
Balance: 66,463 - on-going Balance:2.2M - on-going
procurement procurement
Plus New Target for 2017: Plus New Target for 2017:
47,492 66,492 sets
(Includes 10,000 classrooms for (consisting of 45 or 40 seats and
replacement) 1 teacher’s table and chair)

195,302 teachers
hired in 2010-2016
Balance: 34,436 - on-going
hiring process
Plus New Target for 2017:
53,831

21,981 computer packages 299.7M instructional

supplied in 2010-2016 and other learning Materials
Balance: 13,841 on-going delivered in 2010-2016
procurement Balance: 179.6 M copies for
Plus New Target for 2017: 30,697 procurement
Plus New Target for 2017: 55.8M

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High prioritization to education reflected in

the President’s Budget
17 %
DepEd Budget, 569.1
billion
% to Nat’l Budget

Growth Rate 14.5%

% to GDP 431.5
14.1% billion
367.1
13.6% billion
14.6%
309.4
13.2% billion
293.4 31.6%
12.6% 238.8 billion
11.4% billion
207.3
175.0 billion 22.9%
18.7%
billion 18.5%
18.2%
15.2%
5.5%

1.9% 2.1% 2.2% 2.5% 2.4% 2.6% 2.9% 3.5%

2016 2017
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Proposal
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Need for drastic improvement in

absorptive capacity
SAAODB as of 2nd Quarter of 2016
Details Total Adjusted Total Obligated Unobligated
Allotment Allotment
2015 Continuing Funds
MOOE 17,852 5,764 12,089
CO 12,471 6,894 5,576
TOTAL 30,323 12,658 17,665
2016 Current Funds
MOOE 58,969 10,716 48,253
CO 20,349 4,651 15,698
TOTAL 79,318 15,367 63,951

*Figures in million Philippine Peso (PHP)

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Put in place financial management reforms to ensure timely

delivery of infrastructure and learning resources

Introduce greater leadership supervision and oversight

over Finance, Administration and Procurement.

Set up an Education Program Delivery Unit to monitor

budget execution and coordinate timely interventions
when bottlenecks arise.

Develop and establish a Financial Management

Information System (FMIS) able to track the status of the
Department's budget releases real time.

Break free from the “catch-up” mode of budget execution

that has so far characterized the Department’s budget
performance.
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2 Make education
accessible to all

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Improvements in ccess in the recent years

88
87
83
85 78 80
75 75 76 77
72 73 74
71
2010 2010
81 81
80
79 79 79 2011 2011
78

2012 2012
74 74 74

2013 2013

2014 2014

2015 2015

Elementary Secondary Elementary Secondary

Cohort survival rate by level, SY 2010-2011 to SY 2015-2016 Completion rate by level, SY 2010-2011 to SY 2015-2016
Elementary Secondary
10.00%

7.95% 7.82% 8.04%

8.00% 7.59% 7.58%
6.38% 6.73%
6.28% 6.29% 6.24%
6.00%
4.60%
4.00% 3.26%

2.00%

0.00%
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Dropout rate by level, SY 2009-2010 to SY 2014-2015

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Enrolment in the first year of Senior High School

turned out much better than anticipated

Total Grade 10 completers : 1,483,388

*Data is as of August 19, 2016

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BUT -- Need to reach out to Out of School Children and

Youth, and to adults who failed to complete basic education

• Functional Literacy, Education and Mass 
Media Survey (FLEMMS) data: About 4 
million Filipino children and youth were 
out of school in 2013
• PSA data on Filipinos in the labor force 
who have not completed basic education 
as of April 2016: 16.59 million Filipinos or 
39.03% of the labor force

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We will continue the efforts to get our school-age children to school,

and to keep them in school up to completion of basic education

Provide school-based interventions to

incentivize, and to reduce the burden of,
school participation.

Continue school feeding programs, and

ensure that school facilities and
environment are conducive to school
attendance and learning.

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Intensify and expand Alternative Learning

System (ALS) programs

Improve targeting of beneficiaries

Broaden coverage

New partnerships

Modalities that fit the circumstances of target

learners

A highly successful ALS program will be one of the

major legacies of the Duterte administration.
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Make education relevant to
urgent needs as well as
opportunities of the nation

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We are responding to the directives of President Duterte to

strengthen and enrich curricular reforms on anti-illegal drugs,
reproductive health, and disaster preparedness

Strengthen the drug education component in

Science and Health by providing real-life lessons via
alternative learning methods, starting in Grade 4;

Strengthen gender and development component of

school curricula especially in relation to sex
education and teenage pregnancy; and

Give special emphasis on environmental awareness,

disaster preparedness and climate change
adaptation and mitigation.

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Introduce curricular and non-curricular programs and undertake

institutional capacity building to be responsive to the aspirations
and most urgent needs of the nation

Contribute to addressing poverty and inequality, meeting 
the challenges of climate change, and keeping pace with 
the knowledge and information age, by:

• Improving competence in science and technology, ICT,

innovation, creative imagination, entrepreneurial spirit

• Inculcating among students a disposition to help our

communities and sectors particularly those that are left at
the margins of growth and development

• Forging collaborative efforts with partners that have the

most advanced data, expertise, and experience in these
fields.

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4 Make education
truly liberating

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Foster critical thinking and enrich

appreciation of culture and arts

Reflect the rich historical experiences of our 
people 

Complement curricular content on culture and 
arts through greater actual exposure to them by 
teachers and students

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In the words of 2010 Nobel Laureate in

literature, Mario Vargas Llosa

“
“There is still another reason to grant literature an
important place in the life of nations. Without it, the critical
mind, which is the real engine of historical change and the
best protector of liberty, would suffer an irreparable loss.
This is because all good literature is radical, and poses
radical questions about the world in which we live. In all
great literary texts, often without their authors’ intending it,
a seditious inclination is present.”

”
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Foster critical thinking and enrich

appreciation of culture and arts

Reflect the rich historical experiences of our 
people 

Complement curricular content on culture and 
arts through greater actual exposure to them by 
teachers and students
Openness to new ideas and pathways to innovation 
in teaching delivery and content that can maximize 
the full potential of learners, for an education that 
truly liberates.
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Our leadership will be active, transparent, consultative,

collaborative, and corruption-free.

We will expand the scope of employee welfare, to respond to felt

and reasonable needs by our academic and non-academic
personnel.

We will continue cooperation with the private sector and

communities, as well as with bilateral and multilateral
institution towards the fulfillment of our vision and agenda. To
harness our collective spirit, we will upgrade the department's
communication strategy to be able to reach out to our local,
national and even global communities.

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DepEd Attached Agencies

Early Childhood Care

National Book
and Development
Development Board
Council (ECCD
Council) (NBDB)

National Council for Philippine High

Children’s Television School for the Arts
(NCCT) (PHSA)

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The trifocal education agencies must

coordinate better

providing pre-service and in-service education

and training of our teachers
undertaking research and development

linking with the national and global economy

forging stronger ties with industry

working for common qualifications standards

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Thank you!

leonor.briones@deped.gov.ph

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