Philippine Education System

Currently, the world is now characterized by rapid technological change,

globalization and industrialization which is covered with the different industrial

factories and companies. Hence, the world needs people not only with the

intelligent ones but technically people having the ability of being literate in various

machineries or equipment and having tremendous skills in the world of industry.

Indeed, the educational system have seen increased demands in

industrialized countries especially in labor markets, there is deeply indeed a

needs of manpower supply wherein educational system must be heavily invest in

basic education and public vocational education and training.
As the UNESCO Revised Recommendation on Technical and Vocational

Furthermore, the Congress enacted in 1990 Joint Resolution No. 2

creating the Congressional Commission for Education or EDCOM to review and

assess the education and manpower training system of the country inclusive of

formal and non-formal system in both public and private.

Yet, the EDCOM concluded that the different levels/categories of

education should be managed individually in order to identify and well attended

to for effective and efficient implementation for the specific needs of each

category. Therefore, the trifocalization of the Philippines’ educational system

covered for the following changes:

Basic Education was subsequently changed to Department of Education

(Deped) through the passage of RA 9155 or Governance of Basic Education Act

on August 2001;

In the Philippines, the Technical Education and Skills Development

Authority (TESDA) is in charge of technological vocational education.

Through Republic Act 7796, TESDA was established in 1994

The program has undergone to uphold, vitalizing and popularizing the

Technical Vocational Education (TVE) in public secondary schools, launched in

the school year (SY) 2007-2008.

According to DepEd Secretary Bro. Armin Luistro, in the global area, TVE

is recognized as the “master key to sustainable development”, which encouraged

President Aquino, in his 2010 blue print for education, to enjoin public high

schools “to bring back TVE to better link schooling to local industry needs and

employment.”

Thus, from labor market and industry, there is hardly available of

manpower supply, whereas vocational learning of students is essential in the

future to make the every Filipino graduates ready and skillfully developed to build

a capable industry workforce.

As part of the Higher Education Institutions, the Technological University

of the Philippines (TUP) have also took part producing the pertinent skilled

workers and professionals in the global and local workplace. The said university

continuously creating students to be globally competitive in the world of industry

and remaining as the premiere state university. In fact, in the year of 1999,