Professional Issues Education For All(EFA)

Introduction

What is EFA

Central Goal

Issues & Challenges

Education Disadvantage

Cost of EducationFailure

EFA Indicators

Overall Goals

9 Urgent & Critical Tasks

Potential Benefits of Success

Larger Stakes to The Nation

Summary

INTRODUCTION

Education For All (EFA) as mandated by President Proclamation No. 480 as the Decade of Education For All for the year 2000 and Beyond.

EFA 2015 Plan is a National Action Plan to achieve Education for all by the year 2015.

The Plan is anchored on the Dakar Framework of Action inked during the World Education Forum in April 2000 in Dakar, Senegal and adopted by various participating countries, including the Philippines.

Introduction

What is EFA

Central Goal

Issues & Challenges



EFA Indicators

Overall Goals




Summary

WHAT IS EFA 2015

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

Introduction

What is EFA

Central Goal

Issues & Challenges



EFA Indicators

Overall Goals




Summary

Basic Competencies For All: The Central Goal of the Philippine EFA

2015 Plan

The Central goal of EFA 2015 Plan is to Provide basic competencies to everyone, to achieve functional literacy for all. Ensuring that every Filipino has the basic competencies is equivalent to providing all Filipinos with the basic learning needs, or enabling all Filipinos to be functionally literate.

Introduction

What is EFA

Central Goal

Issues & Challenges



EFA Indicators

Overall Goals




Summary

Basic Competencies For All: The Central Goal of the Philippine EFA

2015 Plan

The Central goal of EFA 2015 Plan is to Provide basic competencies to everyone, to achieve functional literacy for all. Ensuring that every Filipino has the basic competencies is equivalent to providing all Filipinos with the basic learning needs, or enabling all Filipinos to be functionally literate.

Introduction

What is EFA

Central Goal

Issues & Challenges



EFA Indicators

Overall Goals




Summary

Issues and Challenges

Despite many policy and program reforms and huge investments in basic education sector in the past 20 to 30 years, the country still faces the challenge of having more than 1 million school-aged children who are not in school and 9 million Filipinos who are still functionally illiterate.

Introduction

What is EFA

Central Goal

Issues & Challenges



EFA Indicators

Overall Goals




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Severe Education Disadvantage

1. Basic and Functionally Illiterates: Educationally Disadvantage Filipinos. Based on the 2003 Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS), out of 57.6 million Filipinos who are 10 to 64 years old, 3.8 million 10 years old above do not know how to read and write and a total of 9.2 million are not “functionally" literate or unable to compute and lacked certain numeracy skills.

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What is EFA

Central Goal

Issues & Challenges



EFA Indicators

Overall Goals




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2. Education Disadvantage from the Point of View of Building a Nation. A survey of young people 7-21 years old showed that 65% do not participate in any community activities; only 37% can sing the national anthem, and only 28% can recite Panatang Makabayan. These low participation in the community activities, lack of awareness of Philippine history, and weak engagement with matters of public interest provide a picture of education disadvantage from the point of view of building a nation.


Introduction

What is EFA

Central Goal

Issues & Challenges



EFA Indicators

Overall Goals




Summary

3. School System: A major Source of Continued Education Disadvantage. A major source of continued large outstanding education disadvantage is the school system, specifically the weak performance of the large and nearly universal public system of elementary and secondary schools.


Introduction

What is EFA

Central Goal

Issues & Challenges



EFA Indicators

Overall Goals




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Current Costs of Education Failure

a. Cost Borne by the Uneducated

b. Cost Borne by the Society

c. Social Exclusion: Greatest

Cost of Educational Failure

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What is EFA

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EFA Indicators

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Cost Borne by the Uneducated

It is easy to understand how someone can be disadvantage by lack of education which prevents that person from acquiring certain essential capabilities to Interact with other individuals, with the existing body of human knowledge and with important social institutions. Lack of education to one degree or another excludes the uneducated from the many opportunities and beneficial options in society. This exclusion primarily punishes the uneducated.

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What is EFA

Central Goal

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EFA Indicators

Overall Goals




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Cost Borne by the Society

The costs imposed on society by the large group of people who go through elementary and secondary schooling without acquiring the essential competencies expected from such schooling are particularly heavy. First, these children waste their years of effort and expense in schooling that fails to benefit them with the basic knowledge, skills, and attitudes desired and expected by their own society.

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What is EFA

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EFA Indicators

Overall Goals




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Social Exclusion: GreatestCost of Educational Failure

The costs of failure to attain universal education are incalculably large and could even be socially devastating. Lack of education condemns those uneducated to fewer options and less possibilities than their educated countrymen.

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What is EFA

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EFA Indicators

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Good Intentions Without Significant Gains

The many good intentions of all Secretaries of education, various Congresses, and several Presidents – all have failed to yield significant gains, past efforts failed because those who are better educated failed.

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What is EFA

Central Goal

Issues & Challenges



EFA Indicators

Overall Goals




Summary

Education For All (EFA) Indicators

The performance Indicators Module calculates the Core Education for All Indicators as well as other relevant education indicators using data gathered in the school Statistics Module.

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Core EFA Indicators

• Gross Enrolment ratio in early childhood development programs.

• Percentage of grade 1 pupils with early childhood development programs.

• Apparent/ gross and net intake rates in primary education.

• Gross and net enrolment ratios.• Survival rate to Grade VI/Year IV and

Coefficient of Efficiency including Promotion Rates, Repetition Rates, School-Leaver Rates and Years Input Per Graduate.

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What is EFA

Central Goal

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EFA Indicators

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Other Indicators

•Simple Dropout

Rate

•Transition Rate

•Completion Rate

•Failure Rate

•Retention Rate

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What is EFA

Central Goal

Issues & Challenges



EFA Indicators

Overall Goals




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Overall Goals & Objectives

1. Universal coverage of out of school youths (OSY) and adults in the Provision of basic learning needs;

2. Universal school participation and elimination of drop outs and repetition in first three grades;

3. Universal completion of 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.

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What is EFA

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EFA Indicators

Overall Goals




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Nine Urgent &Critical Tasks

1. Make every school continuously improve its performance.

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

3. Transform existing non-formal and informal learning options into a truly viable alternative learning system yielding more EFA benefits.

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4. Get all teachers to continuously improve their teaching practices.

5. Increase the cycle of schooling to reach 12 years of formal basic education.

6. Continue enrichment of curriculum development in the context of pillars of new functional literacy.

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

8. Create network of community-based groups for local attainment of EFA goals.

9. Monitor Progress in efforts toward attainment of EFA goals.


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What is EFA

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Potential Benefits ofSuccess

1. Social, political, economic and cultural improvements. An educated society would allow for faster accumulation and more equitable distribution of national wealth, faster improvement in political responsiveness to the true will of the people, and more dynamic development of culture and society.

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Potential Benefits ofSuccess

2. Quality collective decision. New knowledge and relevant information can be diffused much faster. Better quality collective decisions in politics, culture and commerce can be made and with greater participation.

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What is EFA

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Larger Stakes to the Nation

1. Language Education For all should enable everyone to

speak in the vernacular, Filipino and English.

2. National Identity Education should not only develop critical

thinking, but also enlarge horizons and inspire self-reflection and hope in every generation.

3. Social Capital Education for all builds social capital. It makes

possible the achievement of certain ends that would not otherwise be attainable in its absence.

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What is EFA

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Central Goal



EFA Indicators

Overall Goals




Summary


1. Language Education For all should enable everyone to

speak in the vernacular, Filipino and English.

2. National Identity Education should not only develop critical

thinking, but also enlarge horizons and inspire self-reflection and hope in every generation.

3. Social Capital Education for all builds social capital. It makes

possible the achievement of certain ends that would not otherwise be attainable in its absence.

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4. Cultural Practices Cultural values can be highly productive

component of social capital, allowing communities ant the whole country to efficiency opportunism and resolve problems of collective action such as individual refusal to serve the public good, etc.

5. Individual Freedom EFA is really about assuring the capacity to

fully exercise freedom by all.

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What is EFA

Central Goal

Issues & Challenges



EFA Indicators

Overall Goals




Summary

Summary

The Philippine (EFA) Action Plan aims to provide basic competencies to everyone or functional literacy for all.

This is about educating a nation by educating each members of the nation. Educating everyone creates a society that is more capable of advancing its collective interests far beyond the mere aggregation of individual successes.

If the EFA plan was implemented with intelligence it can achieve its goal. Enabling all Filipinos (young and adult) to be functionally literate.

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What is EFA

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EFA Indicators

Overall Goals




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The Story of Pablo and Bruno

The story is about the two men hired and paid to get water from the spring, from a river. They were paid per bucket of water they brought to the village. Finally, they have a way to earn money and hoped to achieve their dreams with their earnings. So everyday, they go to the water source and back to the village several times carrying buckets of water. At the end of the day, Bruno was happy as he already have money to spend. Pablo is somewhat not satisfied. He thought of a “better way” of bringing water into the village – thus he thought of building a “pipeline” so water can flow in the village.

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This idea was shared to Bruno but was quick to object. Pablo believing in his dream, went ahead and started building his pipeline. Every day, part of it he carried buckets of water to the village, and half of it he spent to work on his pipeline, and that completing his pipeline will take him two years or more.

Pablo was now happy, as he can now stop from carrying buckets into the village. He was earning, even in his sleep. Bruno on the other hand, was carrying less and less buckets, and made fewer and fewer trips each day.

Eventually, Pablo was able to convince Bruno that it was not too late for him to join him. So the two went around and taught other villages to build their own pipeline as well.

Introduction

What is EFA

Central Goal

Issues & Challenges



EFA Indicators

Overall Goals




Summary