Sen. Loren Legarda —Picture from her workplace
MANILA, Philippines — Past imaginative and prescient, enhancing schooling requires sustained, decisive motion, significantly substantial will increase in funding.
Sen. Loren Legarda careworn 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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“Right this moment is a few imaginative and prescient — one that’s deliberate, knowledgeable, and firmly centered on the Filipino learner,” the four-term senator stated.
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“The launch of Edcom II’s Yr Two Report marks the end result of rigorous examine and insightful analyses by the Fee and varied stakeholders to uncover the realities of our schooling system and design a transformative roadmap that secures a future for each Filipino youngster, 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 burden of our youngsters’s greatest and boldest goals?” Legarda added.
She emphasised the significance of schooling as the bottom upon which innovation, peace, justice, and sustainable improvement may very well be constructed.
The report reveals pressing gaps within the schooling system:
- Solely 25 p.c of Filipino youngsters meet the really helpful power consumption between ages 6 and 12 months.
- There are deficiencies in foundational competencies rising as early as Grade 3
- As much as 50 p.c of the varsity 12 months is misplaced on account of disruptions resembling pure disasters
- 55 p.c 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 crucial competencies whereas guaranteeing that faculties have expert management, ample personnel, sufficient school rooms, and important sources.
“Right this moment, we shift our focus to options. We should make sure that the suggestions on this report do not stay ink on paper however translate into actual, lasting change and are pushed by collective motion. Each sector, from authorities to personal companions, from educators to family members, should play a task in shaping a stronger schooling system for all,” Legarda stated.
She emphasised that schooling reform requires a multisectoral method, calling for unified and strategic motion from authorities companies, native authorities models, 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 improvement, cultural preservation, poverty discount, and peacebuilding is important to making sure efficient and sustainable studying for all.
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To be taught extra in regards to the findings and suggestions of the EDCOM II Yr 2 Report, go to this hyperlink: edcom2.gov.ph.