Medium Term Devt Plan Handout.docx

Republic of the Philippines WESTERN MINDANAO STATE UNIVERSITY Graduate School, College of Teacher Education Normal Road, Baliwasan, Zamboanga City 7000 Tel. No. 991 – 1771, 991 – 1040

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Medium Term Development Plan, History of Philippine Education Saniya G. Abirin EDUC 310 Ma. Socorro Yvonne A. Ramos, Ed.D. MEDIUM TERM DEVELOPMENT PLAN

The Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2017-2022 is the first medium-term plan to be anchored on the 0-10 point Socioeconomic Agenda and is geared towards the Ambisyon Natin 2040 which articulates the Filipino people’s collective vision of a MATATAG, MAGINHAWA, AT PANATAG NA BUHAY PARA SA LAHAT. The 10-Point Socioeconomic Agenda (Duterte Administration) 1. Continue and maintain current macroeconomic policies, including fiscal, monetary and trade policies. 2. Institute progressive tax reform and more effective tax collection, indexing taxes to inflation. 3. Increase competitiveness and the ease of doing business. This effort will draw upon successful models used to attract business to local cities. 4. Accelerate annual infrastructure spending to account for 5 percent of GDP, with Public-Private Partnerships playing a key role. 5. Promote rural and value chain development toward increasing agricultural and rural enterprise productivity and rural tourism. 6. Ensure security of land tenure to encourage investments and address bottlenecks in land management and titling agencies. 7. Invest in human capital development, including health and education systems, and match skills and training to meet the demand of businesses and the private sector. 8. Promote science, technology and the creative arts to enhance innovation and creative capacity toward self-sustaining, inclusive development. 9. Improve social protection programs, including the government’s Conditional Cash Transfer program, to protect the poor against instability and economic shocks. 10. Strengthen implementation of the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Law to enable especially poor couples to make informed choices on financial and family planning. The Philippine Development Plan Overall Framework       

The Philippines will be an upper middle-income country by 2022. Growth will be more inclusive as manifested by a lower poverty incidence in rural areas – from 30% in 2015 to 20% in 2022. The Philippines will have a high level of human development The unemployment rate will decline from 5.5.% to 3-5% There will be greater trust in government and in society Individuals and communities will be more resilient. Filipinos will have greater drive for innovation.

Strategic Outcomes A matatag, maginhawa, at panatag na buhay by 2040 will be achieved if Filipinos are able to lay down the foundation for inclusive growth, a high-trust and resilient society, and a globally-competitive knowledge economy by 2022. This goal will be supported by three pillars - Malasakit, Pagbabago, and Patuloy na Pag-unlad - which are further supported by strategic policies and macroeconomic fundamentals, and built on a solid bedrock of safety, peace and security, infrastructure, and a healthy environment. Pillar 1: Enhancing the social fabric (Malasakit): There will be greater trust in public institutions and across all of society. Government will be people-centered, clean, and efficient. Administration of justice will be swift and fair. There will be greater awareness about and respect for the diversity of our cultures. A. Ensuring People-Centered, Clean & Efficient Governance - To reduce corruption  Promote public awareness of anticorruption drives.  Implement prevention measures.  Strengthen deterrence mechanisms. - To achieve seamless service delivery  Adopt a whole-of-government approach in delivery of key services.  Implement regulatory reforms.  Improve productivity of the public sector. - To enhance administrative governance  Right-size the bureaucracy.  Strengthen results-based performance management, public financial management, and accountability. - To fully engage and empower citizenry  Promote participatory governance.  Ensure public access to information.  Institutionalize response and feedback mechanisms.  Implement electoral reforms. - To strengthen civil service  Promote shared public service values.  Improve human resource management systems and streamline processes.  Develop and invest in human resource. B. Ensuring People-Centered, Clean & Efficient Governance By 2022, the country’s civil, criminal, commercial, and administrative justice systems will be enhanced. Significant reforms will be undertaken to ensure fair and swift administration of justice. Consequently, the country’s ranking in the World Governance Indicator (WGI) rule of law will improve to be in the upper half; the World Justice Project (WJP) fundamental rights and criminal justice indicator to the upper 25 percentile; and WJP civil justice indicator to the upper 20 percentile. Enhancing systems and rationalizing interdependence among justice sector institutions or actors are essential developmental approaches to provide the timely

delivery of justice. There will be harmonized efforts and seamless coordination among the different actors involved in civil, criminal, commercial, and administrative justice. Strategies to implement these are as follows: -

To enhance civil, criminal, commercial, and administrative justice systems  Institutionalize the Justice Sector Coordinating Council.  Strengthen economic justice.  Deliver justice real-time.

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To improve sector efficiency and accountability  Deliver fair and equal justice.  Enhance accountability through an engaged citizenry.  Enhance sector efficiency.

C. Promoting Philippine Culture & Values Priorities (a) safeguarding and enshrining our cultural heritage; (b) achieving equity and inclusion in access to cultural resources and services; and (c) sustaining and enhancing cultural assets to foster creativity and innovation for socioeconomic growth. GOALS

To value our diverse cultures

STRATEGIES  Develop, produce, disseminate, and liberalize access to information on Filipino culture.  Institutionalize and intensify heritage conservation plans and programs.  Establish Knowledge Development Centers and Schools of Living Traditions for building capacities of Filipinos.  Expand inclusive cultural structures as civic spaces for dialogue and cultural exchange.

To inculcate values for the common good

 Determine a set of core values that foster the common good.  Utilize various channels of values inculcation to reach all community members.  Increase government efforts for promotion of values that foster the common good.  Mainstream cultural education in the basic, technical, vocational, and higher education systems.

To advance “pagkamalikhain” or value of creative excellence

 Boost the development of Filipino creativity as tool for social cohesion and impetus for culture-based industry and creative economy  Build public appreciation of Filipino creativity

To strengthen culturesensitive governance and development

 Pursue institutional reforms for cultural development.  Develop cultural assets across the country.  Establish historic and cultural complexes nationwide as hubs for cultural education, entertainment, and tourism.  Strengthen the protection of the rights of vulnerable sectors of society (indigenous peoples, women, youth & children and persons with disability) to access cultural resources and to live a life free from discrimination and fear

Pillar 2: Inequality-reducing transformation (Pagbabago): There will be greater economic opportunities, coming from the domestic market and the rest of the world. Access to these opportunities will be made easier. Special attention will be given to the disadvantaged subsectors and people groups. A. Accelerating Human Capital Development By 2020, Filipinos will have more opportunities to develop their full potential. They will have a better access to health care services and opportunities to acquire 21 st century skills and competencies. At the same time, they will have easier transition to the workforce. B. To ensure lifelong learning opportunities for all Strategies  

Achieve quality accessible, relevant, and liberating basic education for all Improve the quality of higher and technical education and research for equity and global competitiveness

C. To improve the employability and income-earning potential of individual Strategies  Improve employability  Improve productivity  Enhance labor mobility and income security Pillar 3: Increasing growth potential (Patuloy na Pag-unlad): Many more will adopt modern technology, especially for production. Innovation will be further encouraged, especially in keeping with the harmonized research and development agenda. And in order to accelerate economic growth even more in the succeeding Plan periods, interventions to manage population growth will be implemented and investments for human capital development will be increased.  

The government seeks to lay down the foundation of economic growth by: pursuing an efficient population management to enable Filipinos to be productive and engaged in economic activities promoting science, technology use, and innovation to drive long-term growth of the economy.

Enabling and supportive economic environment: There will be macroeconomic stability, supported by strategic trade and fiscal policies. A strong and credible competition policy will level the playing field and encourage more investments. Bedrock: There will be significant progress in the pursuit of just and lasting peace, security, public order, and safety. Construction of strategic infrastructure that promotes growth, equity, and regional development will be accelerated. At the same time, there will be stronger institutions and more effective protocols to ensure ecological integrity, clean and healthy environment.

HISTORY OF THE PHILIPPINE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM Pre- Spanish Era  Education was informal, unstructured and devoid in methods.  Children were provided more vocational training and less academics (3Rs) by their parents and in the houses of tribal tutors  Tribal tutors were replaced by Spanish Missionaries..  Instruction was religion oriented.  Education was limited only for the elites  Established at least one primary school for boys and girls in each town by the Decree of 1863. Spanish Era  Establishment of normal school for male teachers under the supervision of the JESUITS.  Primary instruction was free.  Teaching of Spanish language was compulsory.  Education during that period was in adequate, suppressed and controlled. American Regime  Upon the recommendation of the Schurman Commission free primary instruction that trained the people for the duties of citizenship and avocation was enforced by the TAFT Commission per instructions of President McKinley.  Chaplains and non-commissioned officers were assigned to teach using English as the medium of instruction.  Highly centralized public school system was installed by Philippine Commission by virtue of Act No. 74  THOMASITES brought in the Philippines from USA.  Bureau of Public Instruction became Bureau of Education under Act No. 477 which passed on Nov. 1, 1902.  High School was supported by the Governments.  Established the following on 1902 by the Philippine Commission Special Education Institutions Schools of Arts and Trade Agricultural School Commerce Marine Institutes  The Philippine Legislature approved Act No. 1870 which created the University of the Philippines.  The Reorganization Act of 1916 provide the Filipinization of all department of the secretaries except the secretary of Public Instruction. Japanese Era 

Japanese educational policies were embodied in Military Order No. 2 in 1942. The Welfare and schools were reopened in June 1942.  On October 14, 1943 the Japanese-sponsored Republic created the Ministry of Education.  Taught Tagalog, Philippine History and Character Education.  Love for work and dignity of labour was emphasized.

 In 1947, by virtue of executive Order No. 94 the department of Instruction was changed to department of Education.  In that period, the regulation and supervision of public and private schools belonged to the Bureau of Public and Private Schools. Philippine Republic to Present In 1972, the Bureau of Public and Private Schools became the Department of Education and Culture by virtue of Proclamation 1081 and the Ministry of Education and Culture by virtue of P.D. No. 1397.  13 regional offices were created and major organizational changes were implemented in the Educational System.  The Education Act of 1982 created the Ministry of Education Culture and Sports in 1987 by virtue executive Order No. 117.  On 1994, Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and the Technical Education and skills Development Authority (TESDA) were established to supervise tertiary degrees, programs and non-degree technical-vocational programs.  Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM) passed the RA 7796 in 1994 creating CHED and TESDA.  That system focused to mandate basic education which covers elementary, secondary and non-formal education, including culture and sports.  TESDA now administers the post-secondary, middle level man power training and development. CHED is responsible for Higher Education.  In 2001 Republic Act 9155 or Government of Basic Education Act was passed transforming DECS to DepEd.  The main goal is to provide the school age population and young adults with skills, knowledge, and values to become caring, self-reliant, productive and patriotic citizens.