Education agencies to discuss roadmap, agenda under Duterte government
The primary education agencies of the government are set to discuss with stakeholders their vision and priorities under the present administration.
Top executives of the Department of Education (DepEd), Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) will lead the two-day education summit on Nov. 3 to 4.
“Through this summit, we hope to lay down a clear roadmap that will make education accessible, relevant and liberating,” said DepEd Secretary Leonor Briones.
“We prepared a comprehensive agenda for this summit to ensure that all issues and challenges are adequately addressed to allow the trifocal education system to really move forward,” she added.
For her part, CHED chairperson Patricia Licuanan stressed the need for all education stakeholderd to discuss and strategize as partners committed to the pursuit of higher education as a critical factor in the Philippine development.
The education agencies said event is a follow through to the recent Social Development Initiatives Summit held in Davao City that aimed to flesh out the social development agenda of the Duterte administration.
They said the outcome of the summit will be the education sector’s input to the next Philippine Development Plan (2017-2022).
Some 500 education stakeholders are expected to attend the event, which will tackle urgent concerns and define the vision and agenda of basic, higher and technical-vocational education in the country.
Issues that will be discussed include linkage of education and the economy; human resource and management issues in education; and digital education and use of technology in the knowledge and information age.
DepEd said the K-12 curriculum and its support systems, as well as the government’s thrust to strengthen the Alternative Learning System, will be taken up.
Issues on higher and technical education will also be tackled in the summit, to be led by CHED and TESDA.
Briones stressed the need to identify the clear roadmap of the education sector, noting that part of the 10-point socio-economic agenda of the Duterte administration is to increase spending in basic education and incorporation of mandatory education about the evils of drugs.
Aside from Briones and Licuanan, other key personalities who are expected to attend the summit are Cabinet Secretary Leoncio Evasco and TESDA director Guiling Mamondiong.