Kahirapan

Kakulangan sa edukasyon

Kakulangan sa kalidad na alagang pangkalusugan (health care)

Ipinagbabawal na gamut

Climate change

Philippine Permanent Representative

Isang issue

Parallelism to other countries

How it began

How it affects us

Lack funds

Geared towards employment and not entrepreneurship

Patterns itself to outstanding educational system of other first world countries but cannot cope up
because we are not well-supported and ready yet

Poor teacher quality education

Problems and Issues in the Philippine Educational System

6. Present Date •Decline in the quality of Philippine education at the elementary and secondary levels.
Reality Check:  Results of NAT among elementary and high school students and NCAE were way below
the target mean score. Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMMS) as of year 2003.
 Math: Philippines ranked no. 43 out of 46 countries  Science: Philippines ranked no. 42  No. 1
Singapore  No. 2. Taipei

8. Present Date Affordability of Education •Big disparity in educational achievements across social
groups. Reality Check:  Socioeconomically disadvantaged students have higher drop out rates in
elementary level.  Most of the freshmen students at the tertiary level come from relatively well-off
families.

9. Present Date Budget for Education •The Philippine Constitution has mandated the government to
allocate the highest proportion of its budget to education. Reality Check: Philippines still has one of the
lowest budget allocations to education among the ASEAN countries.
10. Present Date Mismatch: • There is a large proportion of "mismatch" between training and actual
jobs. • This is the major problem at the tertiary level and it is also the cause of the existence of a large
group of educated unemployed or underemployed.

11. Historiography Problems and Issues in the Philippine Educational System :

Internationalization

Emasculation

Fly-by- night Cultural Insensitive Abandonment

Substandard Textbooks

Contractualization

Specialization Copy-Pasting Culture Mcdonaldized

Nonsustainability

Poor Liberal Art Purveyor of myth

Marginalization

Monolithic education

Boring Teachers

12. Giving heavier premium to the history of the colonizers in the Philippines, and not to the history of
Filipinos. Teaching of History subjects from the elementary to tertiary levels and will most likely
perpetuate in the next generations to come. The history of the Filipino people and the colonial history of
the Philippines are two different topics altogether.

13. To be skillful in arithmetic and computer literacy, fluent in foreign languages (specifically English and
Nihonggo) Docile in order to serve as workers of the transnational businesses of the advanced, capitalist
countries. Call center phenomenon in the Philippines, India and other developing states.

14. Victimized by the over-worked and under-paid policy of the system of the past and present
dispensations. Leads to the emasculation and demoralization of their ranks. Explains why the teaching
profession is not attracting the best and the brightest from the crop of students anymore.

15. Teachers, more often than not, are victimized by the over-worked and under- paid policy of the
system of the past and present dispensations. This leads to the emasculation and demoralization of their
ranks. This probably explains why the teaching profession is not attracting the best and the brightest
from the crop of students anymore.

16. The proliferation of fly-by- night educational institutions is counter-productive. Produces a pool of
half- baked, unprepared, and incompetent graduates. Sub-Menu

17. Women, the common tao and the indigenous people are almost historically excluded from the
Philippine historiography in favor of the men, heroes from Luzon and the power elite.
18. The state—in an incremental fashion—is abandoning its role to subsidize public education
particularly in the tertiary level. This comes in the form of matriculation, laboratory and miscellaneous
fee increases in order to force state colleges and universities (SCUs) to generate their own sources of
fund.

19. Some textbooks which are already circulation are both poorly written and haphazardly edited. Take
the case of the Asya: Noon at Ngayon with an identified total number of more than 400 historical errors.
This is a classic case of profit- centeredness without regard to social accountability.

20. In the name of profit, owners and administrators of several private schools commonly practice
contractualization among their faculty members. Contractual employees unlike their regular/tenured
counterparts are not entitled to fringe benefits which consequently reduces the over-all cost of their
business operation. Job insecurity demeans the ranks of the faculty members.

21. Some colleges and universities, even for high schools, encourage their faculty pool to be generalists
(under the guise of multidisciplinary approach to learning) in order to be able to handle various subjects
all at once. But some faculty members have turned out to be objects of mockery and have lost their self-
esteem since some of them were pushed to handle Technical Writing, General Psychology, Filipino, and
Algebra at the same time.

22. Over-dependence to the cyberspace has dramatically reduced the capability of students (even
teachers) to undertake research. ‘Copy-pasting’ has even turned into a norm among some students
whenever they are tasked to submit a research paper or even a film review. Plagiarism has already
transformed into a more sophisticated form in the context of today’s electronic age.

23. The system, methodology, and even content of education in the Philippines are mere haphazard
transplantation from the West. It is therefore Eurocentric, culturally insensitive, and non-reflective of
the local milieu. This is based on the xenocentric (foreign- centered) premise that other culture or
system is far more superior than one’s own.

24. Teachers, administrators and publishers are all left in limbo whenever the DepEd would come up
with another totally different directive from what it used to have in a rather very sudden interval. The
case of the grading system, timeframe allotted to various subjects, MAKABAYAN program, readiness
test, and learning competencies (LC). Sub-Menu

28. Some educators in the name of conservatism and for the sake of convenience, prefer the old-style
teaching paradigm where they view themselves as the fountain of knowledge and their students as
nothing but empty vessels to be filled up (banking method of education). Sub-Menu

29. There are no boring subjects, only boring teachers. But at least we should recognize them because
they still serve a purpose. They serve as bad examples.

31. The problematic education quality in the country as well as the hindrances faced by Filipino students
in gaining good education begin at the early childhood and kindergarten education stage.

33. The gross enrollment rate of the four- to five- year-old children from 19.2 percent in 2004 to 24.7
percent in 2008 or reducing to about four in 10 the number of five-year old children not in school.
35. The relatively low investment of the Philippines on education may be the reason for the declining
education quality. 2007 GDP Per Capita

38. The high population growth in the country is also another factor in the high persistence of high pupil-
teacher ratio (PTR). Another reason is the failure to adequately implement the deployment policy.

39. Teachers report that boys are difficult to discipline, have a hard time sitting still, do not participate in
class and are unable to focus on written tasks such as assignments and exams.

41. The Scholarship system in the Philippines is also problematic as the country's student assistance
efforts to date are “meager and fragmented.”

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The education system of the Philippines has been highly influenced by the country’s colonial history.
That history has included periods of Spanish, American and Japanese rule and occupation. The most
important and lasting contributions came during America’s occupation of the country, which began in
1898. It was during that period that English was introduced as the primary language of instruction and a
system of public education was first established—a system modeled after the United States school
system and administered by the newly established Department of Instruction.

The United States left a lasting impression on the Philippine school system. Several colleges and
universities were founded with the goal of educating the nation’s teachers. In 1908, the University of
the Philippines was chartered, representing the first comprehensive public university in the nation’s
history.

Like the United States, the Philippine nation has an extensive and highly inclusive system of education,
including higher education. In the present day, the United States continues to influence the Philippines
education system, as many of the country’s teachers and professors have earned advanced degrees
from United States universities.

Although the Philippine system of education has long served as a model for other Southeast Asian
countries, in recent years that system has deteriorated. This is especially true in the more remote and
poverty-stricken regions of the country. While Manila, the capital and largest city in the Philippines,
boasts a primary school completion rate of nearly 100 percent, other areas of the country, including
Mindanao and Eastern Visayas, have a primary school completion rate of only 30 percent or less. Not
surprisingly, students who hail from Philippine urban areas tend to score much higher in subjects such as
mathematics and science than students in the more rural areas of the country.

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On 5/30/2018 at 6:08 AM, Bob in Iligan said:

It is painful, when you love the country, to look at hard realities.

I think the state of the law is in conjunction with the state of education. If you had people up to snuff
with, say, Singapore - the general populace is educated enough to understand principles of governance
and law.

Before Yew, Singapore was behind the Philippines in education, income, civil service effectiveness... and
in a couple of generations they are top of the world in academic tests. #1 world IQ at 108. One of the
top per capita incomes in the world.

And the legal system is functional, with no massive overcrowding in the prisons. They're a little harsh
too on drugs, but they give you a trial before execution.

If your people are wealthy, they can afford a quality legal system. Yew did that for Singapore. I wish for
the Philippines that Duterte can be our Yew.

On the surface, the Philippines seems like the most over-educated place on Earth. Many cashier here
have four-year accounting degrees ... because there aren't enough accounting jobs for the available
graduates. You find similar situations in other fields as well. However, the is just the surface. The reality
is that an education in the Philippines is not equivalent to an education in other countries. They have
changed the primary/secondary education from ten years to twelve years, so that might help a bit (since
the last two years of high school will no longer have to be covered in college), but the fact is that most
learning here is by rote (even in college), so students graduate still not knowing how to do anything but
do what they are told. Students are never taught how to think, work and make decisions for themselves.
This comes out in every facet of life here. People learn from their co-workers how to do their jobs (by
copying them). Even when people get promoted or take over top spots, they are still looking for
examples of how they should do their jobs, and since their is so much corruption in this country, they
learn to be corrupt as well.

Duterte isn't Yew, and the Philippines' government is structured totally different that that of Singapore,
so it is less conducive to change. Also, Singapore is a small city-state whereas the Philippines is a large,
complex country with over a hundred million people. It isn't reasonable to expect Duterte to accomplish
here what Yew accomplished in Singapore. He doesn't have that much time. But he is trying his level
best to change things with the time he has.