A CLOSER LENS TO PHILIPPINES'

EDUCATION
 AGENDA OF THE DAY
1 Quality of education

2 Overworked and underpaid teaching staff

3 Shortage of school buildings, textbooks, and equipment

4 Colonial and commercialized state of education and modes of

learning
Quality of Education
In United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization’s data in the year 2015, more or less 1.4
million Filipinos are illiterate. 1.25 million of these
Filipinos belong to the age bracket 15 years old above

As of December 2019, Programme for International Student

Assessment reported that Philippines scored below the
average of participating Organization for Economic Co-
operation and Development for Math, Science, and
English.
 Overworked and Underpaid
staff
6,371 teachers were being surveyed to assess their
situation during the pandemic. The survey showed that
41% of teachers in the survey that worked in Manila and
29% of teachers outside Manila confessed that they are
working beyond 8 hours per day.

Only 4-6% percent of 6,371 teachers are given gadgets by

the DepEd to conduct online learning. The rest were
opting to borrow some money or loan in order to keep
their jobs.
 Shortage of School Buildings,
Textbooks, and Equipment
According to an article Framework for Philippine Science
Teacher Education (2011), schools, especially public
schools, lack quality textbooks and laboratory
apparatuses for experiments.

A survey done in preparation for a World Bank education

loan found that the pupil-textbook ration in the public
elementary schools is 10:1 and 79% of the textbooks are
more than 5 years old.
Colonial and Commercialized State of
Education
Throughout periods of imperialism and neoliberalization,
national education in the Philippines has been
structured and restructured in ways that benefit the
profit-oriented political and economic interests of
foreign and domestic elites.

The government has not upheld its constitutional

responsibility to provide free and accessible public
education for all, the result has been an overcrowded
and inadequately financed system that is unable to
accommodate the most marginalized learners.
 Modes of Learning During the
Pandemic
Flexible learning refers to the combination of different
methods of teaching, including the use of online
platforms and digital or printed modules.

Under this new system, universities and colleges will be

adopting a mix of different learning and teaching
methods based on their specific situations. More
prepared universities will move ahead with all the
online classes, while others may allow some of their
students to come back at different times and “do more
synchronous versus asynchronous learning.”
 Modes of Learning
Online Modality

Modular / Offline Modality (printed or digitized)

Radio and Television-Based Instruction

Blended Modality
 Pros Cons
It builds independence Some students might struggle
Remote learning brings the with so much forced
focus back to the learning independence.
Enhance computer/ There is less opportunity for
technology skills and interaction and collaboration.
learning Hard for students who are
You can work on your own emotional dependent
time. Dependent in finance
 REMEMBER!

May we always remember

that EDUCATION is a
RIGHT and not a
PRIVILEGE.
 RESOURCES

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