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)
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7 Sept – Intl Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies
8 Sept – International Literacy Day
12 Sept – United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation
15 Sept – International Day of Democracy
16 Sept – International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
17 Sept – World Patient Safety Day
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21 Sept – International Day of Peace
26 Sept – International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
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29 Sept – International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste
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Health, Safety and Sanitation Month
National Clean-up Month
Civil Service Month
National Peace Consciousness Month
Social Security Month
Rule of Law Month
National Teachers’ Month (Sept 5-Oct 4)
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Sept 17 – 23:
World Clean and Green Week
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Week 4: Medicine Week
Last Week: National Family Week
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Third Saturday:
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