Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University

Graduate College
North La Union Campus

Philippine Education For All 2015

Dr. Honorio Buccat
Professor
(Edad.305)
Richard s. Moreno
Discussant

What s EFA 2015 Plan??

The Philippine Education For All (EFA)
2015 is a vision and holistic program
of reforms that aims at improving the
quality of basic Education for every
Filipino by 2015.

Overview on EFA
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There was a World Education on Education For All (EFA) in

Jomtiem, Thailand

Which prescribed that Basic Learning Needs shall be met for

all by various means

As a response, the Philippines crafted and implemented the

10-year EFA Philippine Plan of Action.

Early Childhood
Development

Universalizati
on Quality
Primary
Education

Thrust of
Philippine EFA

Alternativ
e
Learning
Systems

In 2000

The Philippine committed itself to the following EFA

2015 Goals at the World Education Forum in Dakar:

Goal 1: Expand and improve comprehensive early childhood care and education, especially for
the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children;
Goal 2: Ensure that by 2015, all children, particularly girls, children in difficult circumstances
and those belonging to ethnic minorities, have access to complete free and compulsory
primary education of good quality;
Goal 3: Ensure that the learning needs of all young people and adults are met through
equitable access to appropriate learning and life skills programs;

Goal 4: Achieve a 50 percent improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2105, especially for
women and equitable access to basic and continuing education for all adults;
Goal 5: Eliminate gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2015, with focus
on ensuring girls full and equal access to and achievement in basic education of good quality;
and
Goal 6: Improve every aspect of the quality of education, and ensure their excellence so that
recognized and measurable learning outcomes are achieved by all, especially in literacy,
numeracy and essential life skills.

Based on the Dakar

Framework for Action

The country came up with the

Philippine EFA 2015 National
Action Plan

Functionally Literate Filipinos,

AN Educated Man

Four Component Objectives Of Philippine

EFA 2015 Plan
a. Universal coverage of out-of-school youth and adults in the
provision of learning needs;
b. Universal school participation and total elimination of
drop-outs and repetition
in Grades 1 to 3;
c. Universal completion of full cycle of basic education
schooling with
satisfactory achievement levels by all at
every grade or year; and
d. Commitment by all Philippine communities to the
attainment of basic education competencies for all
Education for All by All.

To further attain those goals,

these tasks are enumerated:
1.Production tasks
2.Enabling tasks

1.

Universal coverage of out-of-school youths and adults

in the provision of basic learning needs. All persons who
failed to acquire the essential competence to be
functionally literate in their native tongue, in Filipino,
and in English.
2. Universal school participation and elimination of
drop-outs and repetition in first three grades. All
children aged six should enter school ready to learn and
prepared to achieve the required competencies for
Grades 1 to 3.
3. Universal completion of the full cycle of basic
education schooling with satisfactory achievement
levels by all at every grade or year.
4. Total community commitment to attainment of basic
education competencies for all: Every community should
mobilize all its social, political, cultural and economic
resources and capabilities to support the universal

Real Dimensions of EFA

Expand early
childhood care and
development
coverage to yield
more EFA benefits

Make every school

continuously
improve its
performance.

Monitor
progress in
effort towards
attainment of
EFA goals.

Transform existing nonformal and informal

learning options into a
truly viable alternative
learning system yielding
more EFA benefits;

9 urgent
& Critical
Tasks
Create network of
community- based
groups for local
attainment of EFA
goals;

Provide adequate
and stable public
funding for
country-wide
attainment of EFA
goals;

Get all teachers to

continuously
improve their
teaching practices.

Increase the
cycle of schooling
to reach 12 years
of formal basic
education.
Continue
enrichment of
curriculum
development in the
context of pillars of
new functional
literacy;

Languag

Individual Freedom

Larger
Stakes
to the
Nation

Cultural Practices

National Identity

Social Capital

Source: Philippine Education For All

(EFA)
National Action Plan 2015