Philippine Education System

Our country Philippines has established Department of Education abbreviated as Deped. It is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for ensuring access in promoting equity and improving the quality of basic education. The Department of education is the one implemented the K to 12. K to 12 is a curriculum designed to enable high school graduates to join the work force and suitably prepare students who want to attain higher education. The new curriculum is requiring students here in the Philippines to take two more years of high school the so-called senior high school or grades 11 & 12. Prior to the implementation of K to 12 curriculum, the Philippines was one in three countries in the world and the only one in Asia that still had only 10 years in basic education.

Now let us look on the education system of our country in our present time. Fourth picture shows an International School that offers an advance quality education, which also has an advance school facility for learning and usually have an expensive tuition fee. Fifth picture shows the Affordable Private Education Center ( APEC). APEC is a chain of private schools which offer quality private education based on international standards at an affordable price. Sixth picture shows a crowded classroom in public schools with limited educational resources that can result in poor learning outcomes. Seventh picture shows a street child doing some school stuffs in front of McDonalds. Obviously, it depicts that poverty is not a hindrance in learning. Eighth picture shows a scenario wherein teachers are conducting a rally to increase their salary. To summarize, these panorama pictures, it shows the status of educational system of our country. Now the question is "Are we ready?" to adopt the K-12 despite of these circumstances the country and the people is facing and if not "When should we be ready?"