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PGMA asks colleges to fit course offerings to demands of market
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2008
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has called on the country’s colleges and universities to fit their course offerings to the demands of the market to ensure that their graduates enjoy a competitive edge in the quest for jobs here and abroad.
“We ask colleges and universities to update themselves about the current demands in the local and international market, and to offer courses fitting their graduates to the skills requirements of available jobs,” the President said in her keynote address during the opening of the First Biennial Education Congress (FEBC) last Thursday (Jan. 31).
The President, initiated the holding of the education congress to draw up plans and undertake immediate steps to cure the ails of the Philippine educational system.
She said there should be “no more customs administration, a little bit less of business management, more of entrepreneurship” in course offerings. She also asked colleges and universities established by local governments units (LGUs) to “comply with the standards of the Commission of Higher Education (CHED).”
In an earlier meeting with the President in Baguio City, the presidents of both state and private colleges and universities from the three regions in Northern Luzon proposed that LGUs be allowed to establish their own “pamantasans” only if there are no available colleges or universities in their areas.
In her address before the FBEC, the President also instructed the Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC) to “update its licensure examinations to reflect current technical and scientific requirements for of business and industry.”
Enthusing over the seven million jobs created during the past seven years of her administration, the President told the education stakeholders that “poverty alleviation is our overarching goal.”
“We will continue to focus on it (poverty alleviation). Balancing the budget is just the first step. Over the next few years, we will translate the positive results of our reforms to real benefits for the people,” she said.
She pointed out that from the beginning of her administration, “we have recognized education as the key to our next generation in order to get ahead and get a good job.”
To upgrade the country’s educational system, the government has allocated billions of pesos to education, including P1 billion for skills-development and another P1billion for teacher training.
Similarly, the government “will continue to invest in new school construction at the elementary school level, and to bolster our scholarship program for high schools students and those ready for higher education.”
“We are able to do all these because the Philippine economy has turned around with 28 consecutive quarters of growth, topped off by seven-percent growth in 2007. Our stock market is up, seven million jobs have been created in seven years, and our currency is one of the strongest in Asia. Investments are surging and many new companies are investing in us – we are one of the best values in Asia right now,” she said.
Believing that education is a “core value of Philippine society and family life” and the very “foundation of economic prosperity and individual liberty, justice and self-worth,” the President said she had issued Executive Order No. 652 creating the Presidential Task Force for Education (PTFE) to assess, plan and monitor the entire educational system.
“We called this (education) congress to discuss the progress report of the Task Force,” she said.
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