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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International Equal Pay Day
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more than other cost items.
For widespread, practical equality!”
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to carry out the recommendations of the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry
against serious violations of protocols of
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October –
Monthly Observances:
Industry and Commerce Safety Month
National Statistics Month
Local Government Month
Consumer Welfare Month
Cooperative Month
National Quality and Productivity Improvement Month
National Health and Wellness Tourism Month
National Indigenous Peoples Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 1: Elderly Filipino Week
Week 2: National Health Education Week
Local Government Week
National Mental Health Week
October 17-23:
National Week for Overcoming Extreme Poverty
October 18 – 24:
United Nations Week
Last Week:
Nurses’ Week
Consumers’ Protection Week
Week of the 4th Sunday:
Barrio Farmers’ Week
Daily Observances:
First Monday (Oct 4): Universal Children’s Day i
n the Philippines
Oct 5: National Teachers’ Day
Oct 10: Local Government Day
Third Thursday (Oct 14): Conflict Resolution Day
Oct 21: Tenants’ Emancipation day
Oct 24: United Nations Day
Oct 29: National Indigenous People’s Thanksgiving Day
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