A. Research about the program “Quality Education” under the development goals.

Sustainable Development Goal 4 aims at ensuring inclusive and equitable quality

education and promotes lifelong learning opportunities for all. This goal ensures that all
girls and boys complete free primary and secondary schooling by 2030. It also aims to
provide equal access to affordable vocational training, to eliminate gender and wealth
disparities and achieve universal access to a quality higher education.

Estimates show that, among those 59 million children, 1 in 5 of them had dropped out
and recent trends suggest that 2 in 5 of out-of-school children will never set foot in a
classroom. The Sustainable Development Goals clearly recognise that this gap must be
closed, even as the international community more explicitly addresses the challenges of
quality and equity in education.

B. What Is Alternative Learning System?

Alternative Learning System (ALS) was designed of Department of

Education to address this issue and to comply with the UNESCO’S Millennium
Development Goal of eradicating illiteracy across nations and to provide all Filipinos the
chance to have access to and complete basic education in a mode that fits their distinct
situations and needs. This is relative idea in the Philippine Educational System in order
to prevent the increase of illiteracy on our country.

C. What are the scope and limitations of ALS program?

Alternative Learning System is free education program implemented bythe Department
of Education (DepEd) under the Bureau of Alternative Learning System (BALS), it seeks
to serve the Filipinos regardless of their age, educational attainment, race, religion,
economic status, out-of-school-youths, industry-based workers, people with disabilities,
former inmates, rebels, and other people who, for one reason or another, cannot afford
to go through formal schooling. The Philippines set this program to reduce high drop-out
rates among public schools and to accelerate numbers of pupils/students participation
in the basic education curriculum.

It is limited to all adults who are Filipinos age 18 years old and above who were not able
to begin or continue basic elementary or secondary) education in formal school. In
special cases, Out-of-school children in the official school age who are not enrolled in
elementary or secondary school due to special cases such as economic, geographic,
political, cultural, or social barriers, including learners with disabilities or conditions,
indigenous peoples, children in conflict with the law, learners in emergency situations,
and other marginalized sectors.

D. Give at least 5 benefits we could get from ALS program

ALS program provide increased opportunities for out-of-school children in special cases
and adult learners, including indigenous peoples, to develop basic and functional
literacy and life skills, and pursue an equivalent pathway to complete basic education.

ALS program also was made to:

 Reduce the alienation and improve the self-concept of at-risk students

 Provide at-risk students with increased access to desirable social roles
 Increase community and parental participation in the education of at-risk students
 Provide a flexible and integrated academic and vocationally oriented curriculum
which emphasizes the importance of school in preparing for later life
 Provide students with a success-oriented program to obtain academic and
employability skills in a school environment
 Provide a competency-based, self-paced program with clear quantifiable
objectives. Instruction will be provided in a variety of ways best suited to the
individual student's needs
 Foster within students the responsibility for their own learning and the
expectation that they will take an active role in setting their own goals