The document outlines four specific goals for improving higher education in the Philippines: democratizing access, ensuring quality, relevance, and efficiency. It emphasizes the need for a more inclusive educational system that addresses societal needs, enhances the quality of education, and integrates public and private sectors for better outcomes. Additionally, it discusses the role of various educational bodies and programs in achieving these aims, particularly in technical and vocational education and school sports.

1. THRUST, REFORMS AND
ENOVATION ON TERTIARY
TECHNICAL-VOCATIONAL SPORTS
AND NONFORMAL EDUCATION
Reporter: Ma. Lovely G. Macaraeg, LPT

2. four specific goals
• Democratizing Access
• Quality
• Relevance
• Efficiency

3. Democratizing Access
• At present higher education are pretty much the enclave
of the upper and middle classes of our society and the
underprivileged do not really have a chance. Goal is not
necessary to have more students in college. Rather it is
planned that out of 100 who go into grade one, 100 will
finish grade six and 100 will finish high school if
possible. However it is not expected that 100 should
have bachelor’s degree.

4. Quality
• As far is quality are private state higher education is
depend on more rigorous and enthusiastic
maintenance of the regional officers, must depend
upon the private accreditation initiatives.

5. Relevance
• The big key is making sure that three is match between
what our country needs and what are producing. This
theme that we have heard many times before. We will
therefore work with the presidential inter – agency
committee in man power supply and demand matching
studies that we can provide the detailed information to
redirect the higher education system.

6. Efficiency
• The first step to achieve efficiency is to make real
the constitutional mandate by integrating higher
education in both public and private sectors. Thus
can be pursued by systematically and addressing
the problem by both sectors from common source.

8. REDIRECTION IN HIGHER EDUCATION
• Higher education in the Philippines is highly complex affair
consisting of multisectoral components with varied goals,
interest and persuasions. Within the public school subsystem
are the charted state colleges and universities, the non –
charted colleges and the community colleges operated by
local government. In the private school subsystem there are
sectarian and the non – sectarian institution which is further
classified as stock and non – Stick Corporation.

9. This constitutional mandate envisions the realization of
the following objectives of higher education, presided on
the four – fold thrust of equality, relevance and efficiency.
• To provide a general education program that will promote national
identity, cultural consciousness moral integrity and spiritual vigor,
• To train the nation’s manpower ion the skills required for the national
development;
• To develop the profession that will provide the leadership for the
nation; and
• To advanced knowledge through research work and apply new
knowledge for improving the quality of human life and responding
effectively to changing societal needs and condition.

10. Quality Thrust
A. Policies and Standards
• In order to guide the schools in implementing their
educational goals and instructional programs, policies and
minimum standards for different programs have
developed. Educational policies and standards are
generally measures or targets against which the
educational system performance can be evaluated in
terms of its quantitative and qualitative dimensions.

11. B. Technical Panels
• In essence, the technical panels are ad – hoc
multisectoral, collegial bodies of expert that will
serve the consultative, advisory and
recommendatory capacity and the Bureau of
Higher Education and matter relating to their
specifies areas of concern.

12. C. Moratorium on the opening of the
schools and courses
• At present there are 1178 higher educations 362
which are public and 816 are private. All together
these 1178 institutions offer 103 non degree
courses, 181 baccalaureate degree course, 149
graduate courses and 24 courses not definable by
any level, or may aggregate of 457 courses.

13. D. Voluntary Accreditation
• The fundamental purpose of accreditation is to
ensure adequate and safe minimum standards. Such
standards provide prospective students and
employers an assurance of quality.

14. II. Equity Thrust
A. Students Financial Assistance
• The 1987 constitution of the republic of the Philippines
provides that the state shall established and maintain
system of scholarship grants, students loan program,
subsidies and other incentives which shall be available to
deserving students in both public and private schools,
especially to the underprivileged [Sec 2 (3), Art XIV of
the 1987 Constitution].

15. B. Socialized Tuition Fee
• The adaption of socialized tuition fee scheme is
encountered among schools. In this tuition fee
charged are based on students family income and,
financial capacity.

16. C. Service Contracting Scheme
• This refer to the program whereby the government enters
into a contract with selected private schools for the
purpose providing education to students who cannot be
accommodated in publics schools.
• In this scheme, the government pays tuition and other
fees and charges but per students cost does not exceed
what the governments spends for students enrolled in the
public school system.

17. III. Relevance
A. Emphasis on production – oriented courses
• In our effort make courses more relevant to the
socio economic needs of our country which a
present is more vividly exemplified by the
governments thrust on increased productivity: plan
to shift gears this time particularly on the
approaches on his education process.

18. B. Flagship Approach
• This approach was conceived for the purpose of
upgrading standards and increasing the affectivity
of schools. The flagship envisions the production
of quality manpower by institutions which by
virtue of their programs, will be categorized into
national, regional and provincial levels.

19. C. Non- traditional Education
• According to Peter Drucker, one of the well – known
authorities in management, teaching today is comparable
to what agriculture was in the 1950’s. What he is trying to
say is that while the percentage of farmers has greatly
gone down in relation to the number of people that they
are able to feed, the teacher is still limited to 40 students
at a time, which becoming tremendously costly.

20. IV. Efficiency Thrust
A. Reorganization of DECS
• Executive Order No. 117 has ordered the reorganization of the DECS in
order to promote efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of the public
service. Section 3 of the said EO declares “as a basic state policy that the
education system shall make maximum contribution to the attainment of
national development goals; that the state shall promote and maintain
equality of access to education and enjoyment of the benefits therefore by
all citizens and that the State shall use education as an instrument for the
development of the cultural communities of the nation and the deprived
communities to enrich their participation in the community and national life
and to unify all Filipinos into a free and just nation.

21. B. Creation of the Board of Higher
Education
• Batas Pambansa Bilang 232 or the Education Act of
1982 abolished the National Board Education which set
policies for all levels of education. In its stead the
Education Act of 1982 provided for the creation of the
Board of Higher Education. As its name implies, the
board is an advisory body related to higher education. It
recommends policies on higher education.

22. C. Encouragement of Consortium
Arrangement among Institutions
• Higher Education Institution are encourage to
enter into a consortium arrangement among them
for the purpose of becoming more potent
instruments for change; Innovation and relevance
top their respective constituencies.

23. D. Delegation
• By virtue of MECS Order 71 and 23, both series
of 1974 and reissued through DECS Order No. 48
s. 1986, certain powers vested in the Secretary of
the DECS were delegated to the regional officers.
Among the delegated authority is the grant of
permit for schools to offer non-board courses.

24. E. Improvement and Management
• As the third major concern of the Bureau of
Higher Education, the improvement of the
management system of the higher education. In
general as well as the different tertiary education
institutions, in particular is pursued.

25. F. Faculty Development
• In line with the DECS policy of providing assistance to
all higher education institution in the area of the faculty
development, a 44 million dollar grant allocated by the
USD government for the training of junior college
faculty will be pursued. The priority areas are in the
basic sciences and social sciences which will include
teacher training.

26. G. Strengthening the Management
Information Systems in Higher Education
• To conform to the demand for a system to achieve operational
efficiency in meeting information needs, the move to
strengthen the management information system in higher
education is at hand. This significant measure is intended to
cope with the challenge on tertiary education posed in the
Education Act of 1982, and to provide vital data/information
for policy decision and recommendations on higher education.

27. THE BEREAU OF TECHNICAL_VOCATIONAL
EDUCATION: MISSION FOR TECHNICAL AND
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION RELEVANCE
• Objectives of the Bureau
• The mission of the Bureau of Technical and
Vocational Educational is to provide a unified
direction in the formulation of policies, guidelines and
plans to improve technical and vocational education
programs and is support mechanism in the country.

28. More specially, the Bureau is tasked:
• To improve the quality of vocational education and training of
middle-level manpower in trades, industries, agriculture, fisheries
business and distributive arts and computer technology through
the development of skills and accreditation standards.
• To formulate policies and guidelines for improved physical
facilities and equipment of technical-vocational institution; and
• To improve the process of planning, evaluation, research and
development of technical and vocational education on
collaboration with public and private agencies/institutions.

29. To achieve these objectives, the following major
programs are pursued:
• Curriculum research and instructional materials development;
• Physical facilities, research and development;
• Technical teacher training and development;
• Management of technical and vocational education institutes;
and
• Financial resource management.

30. The major activities are:
• Development and preparation of curriculum and instructional
materials relevant to the demands of employing industries;
• Preparation of instrument for institutional-vocational schools;
• Provide a central policy/guidelines on how technical-vocational
education should be developed;
• Staff development for teachers and non-teaching staff to improve
the quality of faculty and other support staff;
• Established linkages between the BTVE, the schools, industry and
the employment sector; and
• Assistance in the acquisition of training equipment and tools
needed by technical schools.

31. PHILIPPINE PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND
SCHOOL SPORTS
•I. Preservation of Man and His Attributes
• This area of concern as components of physical
education and sports deals with the education of the
citizenry in physical fitness as a way of life,
characterized by a lifestyle of regular and sustained
participation in physical activity for the prevention of
illness and physical deterioration as well as minimized
susceptibility to degenerate disease and ill-effects of the
aging process.

32. • II. Preservation of Man and His Cultural Heritage
• With a long history of colonial rule, it is “ a country with a
damage culture,” goes a sad and recent commentary on the
Philippines. Education should attempt to repair those aspects
of Filipino culture which were damaged or revive those
which were lost and forgotten through centuries of foreign
influence.
• Thus, the Lahi (Laro ng Lahi, Sayaw ng Lahi Kanta ng Lahi,
Kalestiniks ng Lahi) program of the BPESS is concerned
with the preservation and promotion of Filipino traditional
games and sports, folk songs and folk dances.

33. • III. Preservation of Man and His Moral Values
• Sports with its prescribed rituals, rules and
regulations which have their beginnings in
antiquity is perhaps, net to religion, the most
effective medium for inculcating in the young,
the traditional and universal moral values of the
human race.

34. • IV. Preservation of Man and His
Natural Heritage
• The preservation of Man and his system of values
needs an environment which can be sustaining life. An
environment that supports life in turn depends on
rational conservation and utilization of natural
resources. This area of concern is most critical in the
Philippines which has one of the highest birth rates as
well as the fastest depletion rate of its aquatic and
forest resources.