The Philippine education crisis in numbers

Here are some facts and figures illustrating the worsening Philippine education crisis as school year 2010-2011 enters:

Primary and secondary

• Out-of-school youth (6-15 y/o) – 8 M
• Enrollment for Prep, Elementary and HS – 23 M
• % enrolled in public schools – 86

Shortages and deteriorating quality

• Classrom size – 1:85 up to 100
• Ideal classroom size – 1:25
• Classroom shortage            – 71,325
• Teacher shortage – 49,699
• Armchair shortage – 4M
• Textbook shortage – 34.7M

• % of schools w/o science labs – 22
• w/o ventilation – 20
• w/o lighting – 27
• w/o electricity – 55
• w/o ceiling – 25

Budget

• Gov’t budget for 2010-2011 – P159 B
• Gov’t budget per day per school age Filipino – P6.85

• % of educ budget of GDP
• 2001 – 3.3
• 2008 – 2.19
• UN recommendation – 6

• Est expenses per child per year in public school – P25,000

• Add’l budget needed to cover shortages – P91.54 billion

Drop outs

Out of 10 students entering grade 1, only 6 will finish grade 6. 5 will enter high school and only 4 will finish 4^th year. 2 will enter college and only 1 will be able to finish.

College

• Enrollment – 2.7 M
• Public Institutions – 1,494
• State colleges and universities – 522

Tuition hikes

• Schools to increase tuition 2010 – 382
• Schools increased tuition 2009 – 258
• % of average increase – 8.71%
• Natl average tuition rate per unit 2010 – P501.22
• Natl average tuition rate per unit 2001 – P257.41
• NCR average tuition rate per unit 2010 – P980.54
• NCR average tuition rate per unit 2001 – P439.59
• Average 20 units plus other fees – P25-40,000
• Revenue of country’s top 5 school earners for the past 6 yrs – P15.43 billion
• University of the Philippines (UP) tuition per unit – P1,000
• No. of newly approved UP lab fees for SY 2010 – 36
• Amount of newly approved UP lab fees – P500-1,500

Sources:
Education in crisis: A challenge to Noynoy, Kabataan Partylist
Education 2010 briefer discussion guide, NUSP
Alliance of concerned Teachers
Photo http://joshweinstein.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/the-problem-of-education-in-the-philippines/

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This is my first post for my new blog vencercrisostomo.com. I intend to blog more often, will write articles on experiences during the past elections, youth issues, the new administration, Kabataan’s fresh term in congress and others.

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Student Strike