Training Secretary Sonny Angara speaks at a gathering with representatives of the United Nations Youngsters Fund (Unicef) on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, for the Consequence Evaluate Assembly within the ninth Nation Programme for Youngsters within the Philippines. —Inquirer recordsdata
MANILA, Philippines — Division of Training (DepEd) Secretary Sonny Angara pushed to strengthen the nation’s early childhood care and growth (ECCD) packages and its different studying system (ALS) as a part of reforms for the schooling sector.
The push got here throughout Angara’s Consequence Evaluate Assembly with the United Nations Youngsters’s Fund (Unicef) for the ninth Nation Programme for Youngsters within the Philippines on Feb. 4.
DepEd stated in an announcement Wednesday, “Angara burdened the necessity to reinforce early childhood care and growth packages and the choice studying system to strengthen early studying foundations and facilitate the reintegration of out-of-school youth into formal schooling.”
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The Unicef assembly noticed Angara assembly with the worldwide group’s schooling chief Akihiro Fushimi and planning chief Xavier Foulquier together with DepEd and Instructor Training Council representatives, to debate its partnership to reform the nation’s fundamental schooling.
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“DepEd considers Unicef one in every of its strongest allies in schooling. This partnership has reworked many lives and helped drive enhancements in fundamental schooling within the Philippines,” Angara stated.
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On the meet, the Philippine schooling chief touted the division’s Tutorial Restoration and Accessible Studying (ARAL) tutoring program in addition to its Dynamic Studying Program to make sure studying continuity even throughout disasters.
Additional, he reported that hiring steering counselors to offer psychosocial help for college students and lecturers was a precedence for colleges in implementing the Fundamental Training Psychological Well being and Nicely-Being Promotion Act.
In the meantime, Angara reported that the division was reviewing the senior highschool program in addition to the Anti-Bullying Act.
The DepEd beforehand laid out a five-point agenda to deal with schooling reforms by the next issues:
- an enabling studying setting
- the welfare of lecturers
- the well-being of learners
- environment friendly studying supply in all its types, and
- a future-ready workforce
—with studies from Sheba Maya R. Barr, INQUIRER.web trainee
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