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Dropouts still challenge'
By Creselda Canda-Lopez
"While there are good signs in DepEd exceeding their enrollment targets, we also have to look at dropouts," Justine Raagas, executive director of Philippine Business for Education (PBEd), said at press conference high number of dropouts, or those who do not finish their studies, remains major problem of the country's education system despite increase in number of students in recent years.
Government data showed from almost three million students who enrolled in Grade 1 in 2012, only around 2.3 million reached senior high school 10 years later.
"Quarter of Grade 1 students from Batch 2012 did not enroll in Grade 11 in 2022…we're seeing progressive decline across the years, in higher education, not all those who signed up for degree, meaning those who start first year college, end up getting it," she stressed.
Same is true in technical education, where certification rate or number of those who received certifications out of total enrollees is still below 70 percent.
"We've seen that our learners fall through cracks as they progress in their journey, and we call on administration to fill in these gaps in education governance and implementation," said PBEd official.
She cited various governance gaps, especially among agencies in charge of country's education system.
During briefing, PBEd urged President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to use his political capital to prioritize long-term reforms in education sector.
"Education is multi-year, multi-decade, multi-administration problem, so it should be given right attention and resources," PBEd president Chito Salazar said at same press briefing.
"We must make education and nutrition our national concern and national priority…if we focus on developing our people first, many of our problems from corruption to poverty, to low productivity to joblessness will be easier to solve," he added.
PBEd hoped FMJ would focus on education sector in his second State of the Nation Address, particularly by laying out long-term reforms his administration would pursue.
Among group's recommendations was to align priorities by creating long-term education agenda that would go beyond 2030 and encompass all education-related agencies.
It also pushed for improved inter-agency cooperation to address misalignment of education standards, address workforce concerns and ensure appropriate and consistent representation of decision-making offices.
PBEd also recommended empowering local governments to help address issues in education, such as expanding local school boards, creating devolution plan and increase education budget for programs devolved to local level.
"Administration and all of administrations coming after must prioritize education and see it as long-term economic solution…and I will actually dare to say it must be prioritized over everything else…health and education must be prioritized over roads, bridges and airports,..we must use our political savvy to make education reforms happen, but we must set aside political calculations in choosing what is right and what is correct for our children," said Salazar.
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