Education plays a crucial role in development and growth.

Migration and remittances have the potential

to help improve educational outcomes and build future human capital stocks, but they also raise
concerns about “brain drain”, as well as the impact on children left behind. This chapter investigates the
interlinkages between education and migration in the Philippines, focusing on the impact of migration
on educational expenditures and school attendance rates, the role of educational attainment in
emigration decisions, and whether emigration and return migration are likely to affect human capital. It
also explores whether and how education programmes such as school meals, conditional cash transfers
and scholarships affect migration decisions. The findings have policy relevance in terms of matching
education to the demands of the labour market, and meeting the increased demand for educational
services in both the public and privat

With the full implementation of the Department of Education’s (DepEd) senior high
school program in 2016 and the rise of low-fee private schools, Canadian researcher
Curtis Riep expressed concern that the government, through its voucher program,
would pour more money into the private sector that could otherwise be used to
build more school buildings that would address the country’s perennial classroom
backlogs.

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at a disadvantage in enrolling themselves at Apec schools since majority of the
teachers they hire  “are not qualified to teach secondary school.” Riep added that
the classrooms have not been conducive to learning since these were housed in
“low-cost commercial space which has undesirable effects on teaching and learning.”

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