The document discusses the state of higher education in the Philippines, highlighting its historical significance and the challenges it faces, such as a lack of alignment between education and job market needs, low quality of education, and limited access for students. It details the classifications of educational institutions and outlines problems like declining performance in licensure exams and inadequate facilities. Furthermore, it proposes objectives and activities aimed at improving education quality, increasing student employability, and providing more scholarships for underprivileged students.

1. Tertiary Level/
Higher
Education in
the Philippines

2. The advancements in education in Asia
have been pioneered in the Philippines.
In fact, the Philippines was home to the
first modern public schooling system in
Asia and also home to the oldest
universities, colleges, and vocational
schools.

3. During the 1970′s and 1980′s President
Marcos decentralized the office that
oversaw education in the Philippines,
and it eventually became the Ministry
of Education and Culture.

4. Today Philippines welcomes students
from abroad, with the vast majority of
foreign students coming from the
America, Korea, and Taiwan. With more
than 1500 institutions to choose from.

5. The Philippines offers enough
universities have to foreign exchange
student can find the kind of program
that they want and take advantage of
many of the benefits of studying abroad.

6. • Records from CHED showed that the
country had 1,573 private institutions
and 607 state-run colleges and
universities, a total of 2,080 HEIs as
of August 2010.
• Generally classified as public or private.

7. • Public universities are all non-sectarian
entities, and are further classified as
State University and College (SUC) or
Local College and University (LCU).
• SUCs are fully funded by the national
government as determined by the
Philippine Congress.
• LCUs, on the other hand, are run by
local government units.

8. SUC Schools:
University of the Philippines
1904
Sta. Mesa,
Manila
1908
Diliman,
Quezon City
Polytechnic University of the Philippines

9. 1901
Ermita,
Manila
Technological University of the Philippines
Philippines Normal University
1901
Ermita,
Manila

10. • Private colleges and universities may
either be "sectarian" or "non-sectarian"
entities.
Sectarian (Catholic) Schools:
Christian
Brothers
De La Salle University

11. Jesuit
Ateneo De Manila University
Dominican
University of Santo Tomas

12. Sectarian (Non-Catholic) Schools:
Iglesia Ni
Cristo
New Era University
Methodist
Philippines Christian University

13. Non-sectarian Private Schools
Centro Escolar University Far Eastern University

15. PROBLEMS AND ISSUES
1. Lack of
overall
Vision,
Frame -
work, Plan
for Higher
Education
There is indeed a large
proportion of mismatch
between training in schools
and actual jobs. This is the
major problem at the
tertiary level and it is also
the cause of the existence of
a large group of educated
unemployed or
underemployed.

16. According to the labor sector, the skills needed by
the industry but not adequately provided by the
academe are the following: Communication skills,
Technical skills, and Numerical skills.
According to studies undertaken by CHED, the
following programs have been considered over -
subscribed as evidenced by the huge enrolment
recorded: Business Administration, Nursing,
Teacher Education, Information Technology, and
Hotel and Restaurant Management.
While the undersubscribed programs are:
Science and Technology, and Agriculture and
Fisheries

17. 2. Deteriorating
Quality of
Higher
Education
Low Performance in
licensure exams across
all disciplines from
38.6 % in 2008 to
36.2 % in 2009
• Lack of accreditation of HEIs and programs
Out of the 2,180 HEIs in the country, only
about less than 500 HEIs have accreditation
in AY 2008-2010.

18. • Inadequacy of facilities and equipment
Among the 1,792 HEIs (excluding SUC
campuses), only 100 or 5.6 % HEIs can be
assumed to have adequate facilities.
• Quality of Education has also been a
decline in our country’s global
competitiveness.
Based on Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)
World University Rankings - Top 500
2006 - 4 Philippine Universities
2010 - 3 Philippine Universities
2013 – 1 Philippine Universities

19. 3. Limited Access
to Quality Higher
Education
Out of 100 pupils who
enrolled in Grade 1,
only 14 will graduate
in higher education.
As evidenced by the low participation rate and
low completion rate caused by increasing costs
and limited student assistance programs.

22. Objectives Persons/Agen
cies Involve
Activities
1. To prevent
huge
enrolees into
different
courses.
2. To avoid
increasing of
unemployme
nt
3. To
maintain
good quality
of education.
1. CHED
(Commission
on Higher
Education)
2.
Government
/ President /
LGU’s
3. Parents
4. Students
5. TESDA
6. PRC
1. Conduct seminars (to be
conducted by CHED and TESDA)
for the upcoming freshmen of
what will be the course that is
suited for them. Also on that
seminar all courses should be
included and what are schools are
offering those specific courses.
2. Every school should have
communication skills, technical
skills and numerical skills that are
included in entrance exam and
minor subjects in every year level.
3. Board exam for Information
Technology and Hotel and
Restaurant Management.

23. Time Frame Estimated
Expenses
Expected Output
4 – 8 years ₱ 3 – 4 Million 1. The skills of the
students in
Communication skills,
Technical skills and
Numerical Skills are
excellent.
2. The graduate of
Business Ad., Nursing,
Teacher, IT and HRM
will lessen.
3. The graduate of
Science and Tech. and
Agriculture and
Fisheries will increase.

24. Objective Person/Agencies
Involve
Activities
1. To increase
the passing
percentage of
every board
exams.
2. To rise the
global
competitiveness
of our
education.
3. To improve
more HEIs to be
officially
accredited.
1. CHED
(Commission on
Higher Education)
2. Government /
President / LGU’s
3. Parents
4. Students
5. TESDA
6. PRC
1. Every Colleges and
Universities should
collaborate with review
centers and give the
graduating students a
discount for the review
sessions. If the students
don’t want to review, the
review centers should
provide materials for them
and the students will pay.
2. PRC, CHED, TESDA
and Review Centers should
collaborate to the questions
that will be given in every
board exams.

25. 4. To give and
support HEIs to
improve their
facilities and
equipment.
3. CHED, TESDA and the
government should provide a
lot of budget for the
improvement of HEIs in the
country.
4. The government, CHED
and TESDA should monitor
every colleges and
universities in the Philippines
and build CHED and TESDA
offices in every regions and
provinces, so that every
school can be easily
monitored.

26. Time Frame Estimated
Expenses
Expected Output
4 – 6 years ₱ 4 – 5 million 1. There will be an increase in
passing rate in a various
degree of board exams.
2. The accredited HEIs will
increase and there will be a lot
of leading schools in the
country.
3. The quality of education in
the Philippines will be globally
competitive.

27. Objectives Person/Agencies
Involve
Activities
1. To give
different kinds
of scholarships
for
unprivileged
students.
2. To promote
cheaper but
good quality of
education.
3. To be a
competitive
country in
terms of a
good quality of
education.
1. CHED
(Commission on
Higher Education)
2. Government /
President / LGU’s
3. Parents
4. Students
5. TESDA
6. Private
Companies
7. An individual who
are willing to help
1. CHED and different
private
companies/individual will
build organizations for
those unprivileged
students. They will open
for donations and
scholarships.
2. Aside from scholarships
the government, CHED
and TESDA should
promote cheap tuition fees
for the public universities
and colleges.

28. Time Frame Estimated Expenses Expected Output
6 – 10 years ₱ 2 – 3 million 1. The students who
are unprivileged will
give the opportunity to
study until college.
2. There is an increase
of educated person in
the Philippines.
3. Lessen the deprived
Filipino families.

29. Reported by:
Yonese Giselle F. Gonzales
Jean F. Villones
(MAED – Educational Management)