DepEd accepts poor PH ranking in education report as a challenge

On June 2, Friday, the Department of Education welcomed the report from the World Bank which stated that majority of Filipino students fall below minimum proficiency levels and said that it would take it as a “challenge” to improve the quality of education in the country.

Tinatanggap natin as a challenge at hamon itong nakita sa resulta na medyo malayo tayo… Nasa baba tayo kung titingnan natin ang sukatan ng mga literacies from international standards,

Education Undersecretary Nepomuceno Malaluan said.

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He added that the agency appreciates the World Bank report as it will further help them create more informed interventions and assures that they acknowledge these problems and challenges on the quality of the education in the Philippines.

However, Malaluan expressed criticisms to the World Bank on its handling of the report as it did not give the DepEd a copy in advance or an opportunity for the agency to examine the study before releasing it to the media and the public.

He also added that the study did not even acknowledge the reform initiatives that the DepEd is doing which the World Bank is very much familiar with.

We are as much a partner in addressing the challenge of the quality of education and we hope they will also acknowledge the things that are already being done,

he said.

In the report, it was observed that there were poor learning results among students in the country as almost 80% of Filipino children did not meet the basic competency requirements for their grade levels.

Among the 79 countries that participated in the Program for International Student Assessment, the Philippines was ranked the lowest in reading and second to the last in science and mathematics.

The country also placed last among 58 countries in both mathematics and science in the fourth-grade assessment in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study in 2019.

In the Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics in 2019, the Philippines was at the bottom half of the 6 countries in reading, mathematics and writing literacy.

For the Alliance of Concerned Teachers, the report only proves the DepEd’s failure of addressing the long-term issue of improving the country's quality of basic education.

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