Essay On Basic Education In The Philippines

The Philippines is one among the three countries in the globe that offers and operates a short span of basic education program that consists of only10-year pre-university cycle. This congested basic education curriculum has produced high school graduates who are apparently not prepared to make a best and intelligent career decisions thus resulting to the increasing unemployment and job mismatch rate among the young and educated(Pascual,2014). This significant increase in job mismatch and unemployment rate is apparently manifested in the January 2013 Labor Force Survey of the Philippine Statistics Authority wherein it was concluded that there are around 7.3 percent or approximately 3 million unemployed Filipinos and an underemployment

Likewise, the students may choose from the different tracks such as Academic, Technical-Vocational- Livelihood, Sports and Arts and Design depending on their skills, aptitude, and school capacity (The K TO 12 Basic Education Program, 2012). According to Addison, et.al. (2014), the courses would eventually prepare the students to enable them to adopt changing job opportunities and choice of profession as it forms the basis for their final achievement in higher education institutions. This implies that students at the JHS level need an adequate information and guidance when choosing programs to pursue. Ordinarily, the choice of programs by our JHS graduates are normally influenced by many factors. Some students make choices of programs with influence by their peers not taking into considerations of their individual strengths and weaknesses. Others too are given the advice to pursue courses and occupations of their parent and even worse, parents select programs for their children, without taking into consideration the performance level of their children and talk less of the interest of their