The Universities after K12

run regularly, the blueprint is clear and implementable in all level or phases within the system. Unfortunately while certain if not some universities and colleges have truly prepared themselves for the incoming academic year, others have not, and the whole educational system in higher education is not.

To prove that the foregoing point is not counter-factual, let us consider some (publiclyknown) information. Let us begin with the issue of bridging program. There are universities that strictly require students to take a bridging program. A STEM graduate for example who would like to enroll in Accounting would be required to take at least 12 units of additional courses in college. This is to address the student’s non-alignment to the preferred college degree program. Unfortunately, this is not a standard policy among universities and colleges. Certain schools trust or rely in their entrance exam. If an applicant passed their exam, he is eligible for admission to the university regardless of strand alignment. In fact, there is a medical school that admits an ABM graduate without asking the student to take up bridging subjects in biology or chemistry.

Another issue: the so-called General Education (GE) or “minor subjects.” Apparently, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has repackaged some of the course offerings in college. Certain subjects have not been included in the list of GE courses. Philosophy of the Human Person for example used to be a common course but has now been replaced by Ethics under the post-K12 college curriculum. But there is a serious question on the preparedness of the instructors in the tertiary level.

Are the tertiary instructors ready to face Senior High graduate with additional two years experience? We may presume that college teachers have been doing their stuff as experts since they started teaching. They should keep in mind though that they have been doing the same thing with High School graduates two years less of training, skills, and knowledge in terms of course content. Hopefully, it will not be business as usual in college. Hopefully, our instructors are now ready with their re-engineered instruction strategies as well as augmented preparations in terms of lesson content. This means that a review should have been made to avoid the repetition of some familiar topics.

Take the case again of Philosophy of the Human Person and Ethics. There is a tendency, basically, for teachers in college to begin their discussion in Ethics with a definition of philosophy. Ethics after all is a branch of philosophy. Other lesson contents that could possibly be repeated are the branches of philosophy and