Educational Planning

(Continuation)

Joan B. Vecilla
Reporter
Future Patterns of Higher Education
in General in the Philippines
 As the country continues to
experiment in the formation of a
Government, shifting at one
extreme from the laissez-faire
towards more centralized control,
the educational system shift
gears seeking an integral role
within this ideological transition.
 Three major thrusts of the purpose of higher
education:

Development orientation

Future orientation

Societal scanning

These three new purposes of higher education is particularly

relevant to the Filipino situation.
 There will be a drastic, if not decline, in the number of private colleges
and universities as we stand them to be.

 It is difficult to project student enrollments in higher education over the

next decades because it will undergo many new articulations.

 It is possible that a larger Career

Guidance and Personal Counseling
service will be provided through a
consortium of schools.
 The Government may take the initiative further here
and set up a Board of Investments type of office for
education hooked up to manpower training.

 Some sectors like the religious affiliated institutions

will attempt to set up an educational system of their
own, working with the framework of national goals.

 As government increases its aids and incentives to

the private sector, it will demand more visible
performance criteria.

 Some of the more dramatic changes in higher

education will be in the non-formal system.
 Some important offices will be set up in colleges and
universities:
 A Director for Urban Affairs
Office of Institutional Research and Planning
Division of Extension or Alternative Education

 The so-called ICR Triad of the private sector

(Integration, Complementation, Regional Relevance)
will receive more recognition as performance criteria
are drawn up for support of priority programs by
government.
 The linkage between schools and government
will be a forced relationship to the type of central
government we have in the Philippines today.

 Elite schools will remain.

 The plans of the Human Settlement Commission

and the PPDD of the Department of Public Works
and Communication will effect the regional
distribution of educational institutions.

 Schools will try to develop students committed to:

 Combating poverty,
Upholding social justice
Defending humanism in a growing
technological society
Supporting national goals
  Research and development will
be geared towards:

 Agricultural and natural

Exports
resources

 Mineral exploration and

 Energy uses
production
 Education and schooling therefore are no
longer considered as synonymous.
Conclusions

 It is not enough that the government

makes the choices alone regarding
the direction of this society and the
role education must play.

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Need for New Initiatives:
Pros and Cons

The past 5-year planning

exercises, both in economic
sector and in the education
subsector, have failed to
productively addresses the
perennial issues of:
 The poverty or our
mass of people 01
The lack of a Filipino
quality and character
02

Our bias towards

Western and
03
American national The lack of
habits alternatives and
04 options
Franco says . . .

“We have planned like we were one huge land-base country like
America or Thailand or India when we are not. We are an
archipelago, islands upon islands fragmented and split up in many
seas and rivers and lakes. And every year, we have natural
disasters …This is not a sunshine-paradise country.”
 Lack of school calendar- same throughout the year for all the islands,
when the summer seasons and the rainy seasons are different.

“We don’t have to go by past history, which has not been the best,
but we can start engineering a new history in the future-by looking at
archipelagic planning, island planning, regional planning, micro
planning-against the context of national aspirations and goals.”
First, focus on your institution and your island
or area, and then put it in the national context as
a second step. But value the differences, the
dissimilarities, and the diversity.
 “You can't plow a field
simply by turning it over in
your mind.”

Gordon B. Hinckley
Thank You
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