MANILA, Philippines – A group of education reform advocates called on the government to close down weak-performing teacher education institutions (TEIs) following the low-passing rates in the licensure examination for teachers (LET) in the past five years.
Based on a study conducted by the Philippine Business for Education (PBEd), 601 (59 percent) of TEIs for elementary education and 795 (63 percent) of TEIs for secondary education performed below their respective national passing rates from October 2009 to September 2013.
A big chunk of these weak-performing TEIs are private non-sectarians (55 percent), followed by state universities and colleges (27 percent), private sectarian (13 percent) and local colleges and universities (5 percent), the PBEd bared.
PBEd also said 129 TEIs in elementary and 147 TEIs in secondary had less than 20 percent LET passers. Seventeen TEIs even had zero passers for both first time takers and repeaters of the last five years.
The research showed that only eight out of 16 (54 percent) of test-takers pass the LET on their first try and only 16 percent of repeaters pass the examination. –Helen Flores (The Philippine Star)
July 2025
Nutrition Month
“Give us much more than P50 increase
for proper nutrition!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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July
3 July – International Day of Cooperatives
3 July – International Plastic Bag Free Day
5 July – World Youth Skills Day
7 July – Global Forgiveness Day
11 July – World Population Day
17 July – World Day for International Justice
28 July – World Nature Conservation Day
30 July – World Day against Trafficking in Persons
Monthly Observances:
Schools Safety Month
Nutrition Month
National Disaster Consciousness Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 2: Cultural Communities Week
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise
Development Week
Week 3: National Science and
Technology Week
National Disability Prevention and
Rehabilitation Week
July 1-7:
National Culture Consciousness Week
July 13-19:
Philippines Business Week
Week ending last Saturday of July:
Arbor Week
Daily Observances:
First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
in the Philippines
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