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MANILA, (PIA) — Incoming Education Secretary and Senator Sonny Angara revealed that President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. wants high school graduates to be ready for employment.
“The President did not say the main point of K-12 is to make Pinoys employable abroad. But he did instruct me to make sure our Senior HS grads have the credentials and skills to get jobs as government promised a decade ago when we added 2 years to the basic education curriculum,” Angara said on social media.
Marcos had previously expressed disappointment that the K-12 curriculum had not succeeded in making high school students more ready for employment.
“There are two elements we paid attention to specifically, number 1, we implemented the K to 12 program because employers were looking for more years of training, and they said in the Philippines, it was lacking because it was only 10 years,” Marcos said.
“That was the reason we did it, so that our graduates would be employable,” he added.
Marcos instructed Angara to explore the possibility of offering mini-courses to improve the employability of students.
“But if we look at the results, it did not increase, their employability did not improve. So we have to do something else,” the President said.
“That’s why we were examining things like mini-courses, three to six months, one-year short courses for specialties,” he added. (JCO/PIA-NCR)
