GOV’T CENTER, Palo, Leyte – The Department of Education is finding way for high school graduates to find respectable work, said DepEd Secretary Armin Luistro during the Regional Development Council Meeting held at the National Economic Development Authority in this region.
Luistro, speaking in front of the various regional directors and representatives from private sector and other members of the RDC, comparing the educational system of the country with the educational system abroad where their major labor force depends on their high school graduates, it is only in our country that children are obliged to finish college before working.
“The problem with us is that more than 70% of our high graduates do not go to college,” Luistro said.
Luistro added that the Philippine culture has also something to do with why most of high school graduates cannot land on a good job.
“Our culture thinks that once a person is only a high school graduate, they are not competent for better job, we refer them as “high school graduate ka lang”,” explained Luistro, adding that even the government does not hire high school graduate for vacant jobs.
Presently, Luistro said the Department of Education and the national government are pushing for an education program that will not encourage high school graduates to enter college courses as the economy of the country relies on skilled individuals.
“As long as they have a very good and comprehensive basic education program, students need not need to go to college,” Luistro stressed.
This program is in partnership with the Technical Education Skills Development Authority that will allow high school graduate to have a TESDA certificate after graduation. This is in relation to the K+12 educational systems that is being crafted by the national government.
Luistro added that in order to address the need to enhance the basic education system of the country, the education sector should cooperate with the regional and provincial level on how to address the problems of education particularly on matching the needs for employment present in the local level.
He added that once the education requirement and the needed resources for the industry are linked the problem of mismatch among workforce and available work in the industry will be answered.
Luistro added that this problem will be given solution in the provincial level by asking each local government on what is their development plan and what are the industries or labor force is needed in their local level. (Roel Amazona)
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