Efficiency and Equality

of Education as
Opportunity
  the process of facilitating learning, or the
acquisition of knowledge, skills, values,
morals, beliefs, and habits
Education
 educational methods include teaching,
training, storytelling, discussion and
directed research
  Equality is the provision of equal treatment,
What does access, and opportunity to resources and
Equality, opportunities (Gunn, 2018). Essentially,
everyone gets the same thing, regardless of
Equity, where they come from or what needs they
Efficiency  
might have.

and  Equality asserts that every student should have

the same access to a high quality education
Opportunity regardless of where they come from. It also
mean in requires that all students be held to the same
standards and objectives regardless of their
Education? circumstances, abilities, or experiences.
What does  Equity highlights what is fair for the
individual.
Equality,
Equity,  In education, efficiency can be described as
Efficiency achieving the greatest amount of
educational output from a given level of
and inputs.
Opportunity  Educational opportunities are those
mean in opportunities that aim to enable individuals
Education? to acquire knowledge and certain skills, and
to cultivate certain capacities.
  An efficient system is one that achieves so much even
with quite limited resources.
 A recent report attempts to assess the efficiency of
school systems worldwide by taking into account teacher
Efficiency salaries and pupil to teacher ratio as indicators of input
and test scores in an international standardized test
and score as a gauge for the output:
Effectiveness
of a School
System

September 2014
The Philippines clearly belongs to the Inefficient
and Ineffective Group.

Effectiveness requires minimum input

 classroom shortages
 poor working conditions for teachers

Philippine basic education also suffers in terms of

efficiency
 Excellence
 Competition
 How will
 It must dramatically change its culture.
Philippines
 It must switch from a focus on excellence to
improve its an emphasis on equity.
educational  Increase the budget for education.
system?
  Future Filipino students will be ready and
better equipped to join overseas
universities at the undergraduate level.
 Filipino students will be given enough time
Educational to master skills and concepts so that they
Opportunity are ready for tertiary education.
of the  Every child becomes a reader by Grade 1.
 Expand government assistance to private
Philippines education.
 Better textbooks and resources (digital,
print, or non-print).
 Technical and vocational education skills.