1. I notice ARMM and national government as of this early 2012 concentrating the education program for southern Philippines. This serve good appreciation.
2. Recipients, poor of the poor children, expecting so much this project be implemented soon.
MANILA, Philippines — The government is committed to strengthening basic education as a core strategy in investing in the country’s biggest and most important resource – its people. It brings educational services to most young Filipinos, even in the remotest barangays, including in the conflict-affected provinces in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
“Task Force ARMM” was organized on December 1, 2011, by the Department of Education to improve delivery of basic education services in the region. The task force is reviewing ARMM’s education situation and will recommend measures to ensure that Muslim education is culturally sensitive, Islam-friendly and able to respond to their learning needs. The ARMM leadership is overhauling this year the educational system to resolve issues and concerns plaguing the sector. About 21 percent of ARMM villages do not have schools, and in those with schools, student-teacher ratios are 80-100 to 1. Though 93 percent of the school-age population enrolls in grade one, 60 percent drop out before they complete elementary school, and the percentage of high school graduates is the lowest nationwide.
The Education Quality and Access for Learning and Livelihood Skills Phase 2 (EQuALLS2), the flagship education project in the Philippines of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is helping improve the quality of teaching by Mindanao teachers, with training programs in English, Science, and Math. USAID trained 175 local officials from 11 ARMM municipalities in education management in the second half of 2011.
The Basic Education Assistance for Mindanao (BEAM) is geared to improving access to basic education in ARMM. BEAM is funded by the Philippines and Australian Agency for International Development.
Under the ARMM Basic Education Act of 2010, the region formulated a six-year Basic Education Strategic Development Plan for 2009-2014. The plan targets the enrollment of 90 percent of eligible five-to-six-year-old children in schools, and 95 percent of out-of-school youth to become functionally literate. It seeks to increase by 15 percent the academic achievement levels of ARMM children in national and regional tests.
Through education, the people of the five provinces of Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao – Basilan, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Sulu, Tawi-Tawi – will have the chance to live in peace, improve their lives, work together to attain socio-economic growth in the region and be government partners in nation-building.
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