Education Secretary Leonor Briones admits on Monday, July 12, that the department had known about the results of the report of World Bank on the state of education in the country as far back as December 2019 during the broadcast of President Rodrigo Duterte’s weekly Talk to the Nation.
Ngayon, lumabas ang result December 4, 2019, kasi 2018 ang exam… One day before, we already reported to your office, Mr. President, because we already knew at that time that the Philippines was not doing well,
Sec Briones said during last night’s broadcast as she gave a backgrounder on the PISA report.
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Briones also clarified to President Duterte that she had given a full presentation on the PISA results in February 2020 along with all the recommendations that should be initiated to mitigate the situation of the PISA results because the agency already knew even before the results came out that the country won’t do well in the assessment.
She explained that she had known that the state of education was not exactly stellar when she took on the appointment as Department of Education (DepEd) secretary in 2016.
At the time, 2016 pa, Mr. President, when you appointed me, I already said that we will join the international assessments, so we will see how we fare with the rest of the world. Kasi tayo, we have our own national assessments and we noticed that our national assessments, Mr. President, were not exactly very exciting,
Briones said.
Briones reiterated that she was the seventh Secretary of Education and the only secretary to have consented to participating in the PISA study and that the poor results should not be blamed on her, the department, or the current administration.
She also disagreed with Vice President Leni Robredo’s statement asking the government to recognize a crisis in education.
I don’t know who should judge whether we have a crisis in education or not. And so kung sabihin natin we have a crisis in education, saan nanggaling ‘yung crisis in education after 123 years? After 47 secretaries of education? After seven secretaries of education who refused to participate in the international assessment?
she said.
Since the release of the 2018 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) report two weeks ago, it became a hot topic in the country as it showed that around 80 percent of Filipino students fell below minimum proficiency for their grade levels. The Philippines came in last in reading, and second to last in science and mathematics among the 79 countries who participated in the assessment.
This caused Briones to demand an apology from the World Bank over its report claiming that the country was insulted and shamed and that it placed the spotlight on the quality of education in the country. She also said that the World Bank used an old data for the report and did not follow protocols on its release and noted that the DepEd was not informed first before the report was made public.
The World Bank later gave an apology and removed the report from its website, saying that its release was “an oversight” on their part.
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DepEd admits PH ‘was not going to do so well’ in World Bank report
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