In a welcome turn of events, BESRA (Basic Education Sector Reform Agency) in its effort to “create a basic education sector that is capable of attaining the country’s Education for All Objectives by the year 2015”, sets the following desired education outcomes:
- All persons beyond school-age, regardless of their levels of schooling should acquire the essential competence to be considered functionally literate in their native tongue, in Filipino or in English.
- All children aged 6 should enter school ready to learn and prepared to achieve the required competencies from Grade 1 to 3 instruction.
- All children aged 6 to 11 should be on track to completing elementary schooling with satisfactory achievement levels at every grade, and all children aged 12 to 15 should be on track to completing secondary schooling with similarly satisfactory achievement levels at every year.
- Every community should mobilize all its social, political, cultural and economic resources and capabilities to support the universal attainment of basic education competencies in Filipino and English.
Please check BESRA Progress Report for the entire PowerPoint show.