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- Only six out of every 1,000 Grade Six elementary graduate students are prepared to enter high school.
- Only two out of every 100 fourth year high school students are fit to enter college.
- Only 19 out of every 100 public school teachers have confidence and competence to teach English.
- The Philippines is no. 41 in Science and no. 42 in Mathematics among 45 countries.
- One in every eight schools has teacher-to-pupil ratio of 1:50 and above.
- One in every seven students does not have a classroom.
- One in every five students does not have a desk.
- One in every three students does not have a single textbook.
- Two to eight students share a single set of textbooks.
- The Wallace Report
In the past 30 years the Philippines has averaged 3.1% annual GDP growth and a population growth
of 2.5%. Which means almost no improvement for the Filipino over that 30 years. This is about half
the rate achieved by other nations in Asia.
Why?
1. Politics - vested interest vs national good
2. Uncontrolled population growth
3. Weak educational system
4. Corruption
5. Inadequate infrastructure
6. An agriculture system that hasn’t improved in 30 years
7. An inadequate focus on job creation
8. A judiciary in need of major improvement
9. Security
10. Good governance.
If these 10, and it must be all 10 of them, aren’t fixed the Philippines will average 3.1% for the next 30 years too. The logic of this can’t be denied. more...
- Overwhelmed by numbers,
education system in crisisFETID, brown floodwaters invade the gates of the biggest public high school in Manila. In good weather, 7,000 students fill its 45-year-old classrooms.
“Maybe five years from now,” principal Cristina Reyes of the Ramon Magsaysay High School said, there would not be enough room.
Up to 55 students now make up each class, but can consider themselves lucky. In some other Manila schools, the building shortfall is more acute that students are asked to show up only three times a week, Reyes said. more...
- Five Pillars of Growth
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- College Education in Crisis
Five years from now, the Philippines’ tertiary education will likely face a crisis if the current trends in college enrolment and dropouts will continue. Due to continuing tuition hikes more and more students enrolled in private colleges and universities find themselves either dropping out or forced to transfer to state institutions. more...
- Profit-makers Produce Mediocre Graduates
If the average tuition rate increase of 12 percent continues for the next five years, the national average per unit would reach P590.20 by 2010. By then tuition would have increased by as high as 1,257.41 percent since 1990. more...
