Sen. Loren Legarda —Photograph from her workplace
MANILA, Philippines — Past imaginative and prescient, enhancing schooling requires sustained, decisive motion, notably substantial will increase in funding.
Sen. Loren Legarda harassed this level on the launching on the Senate final Tuesday of the Yr 2 Report Edcom II — the Second Congressional Fee on Schooling, of which she is a commissioner.
The report is titled “Fixing the Foundations: A Matter of Nationwide Survival.”
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“Immediately is a few imaginative and prescient — one that’s deliberate, knowledgeable, and firmly centered on the Filipino learner,” the four-term senator mentioned.
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“The launch of Edcom II’s Yr Two Report marks the fruits of rigorous examine and insightful analyses by the Fee and numerous stakeholders to uncover the realities of our schooling system and design a transformative roadmap that secures a future for each Filipino little one, outlined by alternative, fairness, and excellence in schooling.”
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“The place do the cracks in our basis lie, and the way can we strengthen it, not merely to face agency, however to bear the load of our kids’s largest and boldest desires?” Legarda added.
She emphasised the significance of schooling as the bottom upon which innovation, peace, justice, and sustainable growth could possibly be constructed.
The report reveals pressing gaps within the schooling system:
- Solely 25 % of Filipino youngsters meet the beneficial power consumption between ages 6 and 12 months.
- There are deficiencies in foundational competencies rising as early as Grade 3
- As much as 50 % of the college 12 months is misplaced as a result of disruptions akin to pure disasters
- 55 % of public faculties lack totally designated college principals.
The report additionally requires a basic shift in priorities to handle these challenges, specializing in early childhood schooling and diet to construct important competencies whereas guaranteeing that faculties have expert management, ample personnel, satisfactory school rooms, and important assets.
“Immediately, we shift our focus to options. We should make sure that the suggestions on this report don’t stay ink on paper however translate into actual, lasting change and are pushed by collective motion. Each sector, from authorities to non-public companions, from educators to family members, should play a job in shaping a stronger schooling system for all,” Legarda mentioned.
She emphasised that schooling reform requires a multisectoral method, calling for unified and strategic motion from authorities businesses, native authorities items, the non-public sector, worldwide companions, civil society organizations, indigenous communities, and community-based organizations.
On this means, they might construct an inclusive and equitable schooling system, recognizing that strengthening catastrophe preparedness, public well being, workforce growth, cultural preservation, poverty discount, and peacebuilding is important to making sure efficient and sustainable studying for all.
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To study extra concerning the findings and suggestions of the EDCOM II Yr 2 Report, go to this hyperlink: edcom2.gov.ph.
