Implementation strategies for K+12 mulled
The Department of Education (DepEd), Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) and the Technical Education Skills Development Authority (TESDA) are in earnest discussion regarding how to ensure the smooth transition from the 10-year education cycle to the K+12 basic education curriculum.
In a recent conference in Cebu City, the agencies raised the need to forge public-private partnerships with higher education institutions and private schools.
Said public-private partnerships, they said, is important to help colleges and universities cope with the expected low enrollment from 2016 to 2018, during which the senior high school will be implemented.
DepEd Secretary Armin Luistro, who was present at the conference, said the social and individual benefits of the K+12 program will outweigh its costs.
He pointed out that the cost to households of the additional two years in high school will be lower compared to that of a two-year college education.
Under the new curriculum, senior high school students will be given skills training. After graduation, they will receive a certificate which they can use to apply for jobs, if they cannot afford to go to college.
DepEd and other proponents of the K+12 program have assured that the new curriculum will create more job opportunities for the country’s high school graduates since by the time one finishes with senior high school.
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