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Page 1: Addressing Current Issues and Challenges in HE

COMMISSION ON HIGHER EDUCATION (CHED)COMMISSION ON HIGHER EDUCATION (CHED)

Ms. Shirly ValdezMs. Shirly Valdez

Higher Education Higher Education Institutions: Institutions: Addressing Addressing

Current Issues and Current Issues and ChallengesChallenges

Association of Higher Education Association of Higher Education Institutions Region – IVA (AHEIR)Institutions Region – IVA (AHEIR)

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Higher Education Higher Education Institutions: Institutions: Addressing Addressing

Current Issues and Current Issues and ChallengesChallenges

Responsive to the needs and demands of the changing times.

As John Maxwell stated,

“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. But the

leader adjusts the sail.”

HEIs…

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Higher Education Higher Education Institutions: Institutions: Addressing Addressing

Current Issues and Current Issues and ChallengesChallenges

HEI’s and CHED shared same shared same sentimentssentiments

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Higher Education Higher Education Institutions: Institutions: Addressing Addressing

Current Issues and Current Issues and ChallengesChallengesMajor challenges confronting the

higher education sector nowadays, which are:

(1)Lack of overall vision, framework, plan for higher education;

.(2) Deteriorating quality of higher

education; and

(3) Limited access to quality higher education.

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Higher Education Higher Education Institutions: Institutions: Addressing Addressing

Current Issues and Current Issues and ChallengesChallenges(1)Lack of overall Vision,

Framework, Plan for Higher Education;

This is evident on the proliferation of HEIs and proliferation of programs in the country.

AY 2009-2010

Location No. of HEIs

No. of Programs Offered

National Scope 2,180 31,257Region IV-A (alone) 275 2,302

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Higher Education Higher Education Institutions: Institutions: Addressing Addressing

Current Issues and Current Issues and ChallengesChallengesAccording to the labor sector, the

skills needed by the industry but not adequately provided by the academe are the following:

• Communication skills,

• Technical skills, and

• Numerical skills.

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There is indeed a large proportion of mismatch between training in schools and actual jobs. This is the major problem at the tertiary level and it is also the cause of the existence of a large group of educated unemployed or underemployed.

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Higher Education Higher Education Institutions: Institutions: Addressing Addressing

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According to studies undertaken by CHED, the following programs have been considered oversubscribed as evidenced by the huge enrolment recorded:

• Business Administration,

• Nursing,

• Teacher Education,

• Information Technology, and

• Hotel and Restaurant Management..

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While the undersubscribed programs are:

• Science and Technology, and

•Agriculture and Fisheries

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Higher Education Higher Education Institutions: Institutions: Addressing Addressing

Current Issues and Current Issues and ChallengesChallenges(2) Deteriorating Quality of

Higher Education;

There has been a decline in the quality of higher education as the results of licensure examinations in various degree board programs were way below the target mean score.

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Higher Education Higher Education Institutions: Institutions: Addressing Addressing

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Low Performance in licensure exams across all disciplines from

38.6 % in 2008

to

36.2 % in 2009

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Higher Education Higher Education Institutions: Institutions: Addressing Addressing

Current Issues and Current Issues and ChallengesChallengesDepEd Data

Achievement rate of fourth year high school students in Mathematics dropped from:

50.70% in SY 2005-2006

to

47.82% in SY 2006-2007

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Higher Education Higher Education Institutions: Institutions: Addressing Addressing

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As stated by Van Vankelburg,

“Students entering college courses are poorly prepared in Mathematics”.

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Higher Education Higher Education Institutions: Institutions: Addressing Addressing

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Educators Journal’s Report

Students nowadays are getting poorer in Mathematics as shown in the low grades and passing rates of students even in premier schools….

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EDUCATION is the key!

Thus, it should be a top priority of every country.

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Higher Education Higher Education Institutions: Institutions: Addressing Addressing

Current Issues and Current Issues and ChallengesChallengesIt cannot be denied that the

diminishing importance we give to education is all too obvious in the results of national and international assessment tests of our students, specifically on the 2003 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMMS).

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Higher Education Higher Education Institutions: Institutions: Addressing Addressing

Current Issues and Current Issues and ChallengesChallengesIn the Philippines, we spend only

• 3.3% of our GDP on public educational institutions for all levels of education;

While.....

• 7.4% for Malaysia, and

• 4% for Thailand.

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Higher Education Higher Education Institutions: Institutions: Addressing Addressing

Current Issues and Current Issues and ChallengesChallengesTeachers bear the

responsibility of educating our youth….

Recent data that we have gathered show that majority of the faculty credentials are inadequate… AY 2008-2009

Location Doctorate Degree

Master’s Degree

Baccalaureate Degree

National Scope 10 %(12,532)

36 %(46,346)

54 %(70,446)

Region IVA (alone) 25%(2,053)

54%(4,886)

21%(1,884)

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Higher Education Higher Education Institutions: Institutions: Addressing Addressing

Current Issues and Current Issues and ChallengesChallengesLack of accreditation of HEIs

and programs

Out of the 2,180 HEIs in the country, only about less than 500 HEIs have accreditation in

AY 2008-2010.

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Higher Education Higher Education Institutions: Institutions: Addressing Addressing

Current Issues and Current Issues and ChallengesChallengesInadequacy of facilities

and equipment

Among the 1,792 HEIs (excluding SUC campuses), only

100 or 5.6 % HEIs can be assumed to have adequate

facilities.

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Increasing number of SUC satellite campuses and increasing programs beyond their original mandate . There are now 110 SUCs in the

country while the SUC campuses are now totaling 388.

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Higher Education Higher Education Institutions: Institutions: Addressing Addressing

Current Issues and Current Issues and ChallengesChallengesQuality of Education has

also been a decline in our country’s global competitiveness.

Based on Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings - Top 500 2010

3 Philippine Universities 2006 4 Philippine Universities

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Higher Education Higher Education Institutions: Institutions: Addressing Addressing

Current Issues and Current Issues and ChallengesChallengesScience and Education Institute

(SEI) on Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) in 20038th grade (2nd year high school) student

41st out of 45 participating countries

4th grade students 23rd out of 25 participating countries

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Higher Education Higher Education Institutions: Institutions: Addressing Addressing

Current Issues and Current Issues and ChallengesChallenges(3) Limited Access to

Quality Higher Education.

As evidenced by the low participation rate and low completion rate caused by increasing costs and limited student assistance programs. Out of 100 pupils who enrolled in Grade 1, only 14 will graduate in higher education.

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Higher Education Higher Education Institutions: Institutions: Addressing Addressing

Current Issues and Current Issues and ChallengesChallenges CHED’s response…..

First, the Commission worked on the following key result areas:

1) Rationalization of higher education;

2) Quality and standards;

3) Access to quality higher education;

4) Transparency and accountability; and

5) Organizational development

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Higher Education Higher Education Institutions: Institutions: Addressing Addressing

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Rationalization of Higher Education

1. Aligning higher education with national development goals;

2. Developing typology of HEIs;

3. Mapping of HEIs and programs;

4. Amalgamation of HEIs;

5. Moratorium on new HEIs and programs;

6. Harmonization of public and private HEIs (leveling the playing field); and

7. Rationalization of credentials

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On Quality and Standards1. IQuAME as developmental instrument for non-

accredited HEIs;

2. Rigorous and transparent systems for autonomous and deregulated COEs and CODs;

3. Improved and effective Technical Panels;

4. More developmental and less prescriptive PSGs;

5. Closing of substandard programs and institutions;

6. Providing development support and/or incentives to deserving HEIs; and

7. Aligning Philippine HEI curricula and standards with international benchmarks.

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 On Access to Quality Higher Education

1. Improve and expand Government Assistance to Students and Teachers in Private Education (GATSPE);

2. Expand the Student Financial Assistance Program (STUFAP) - scholarships, grants-in-aid, Study-Now-Pay-Later Plan;

3. Alternative Learning Systems (ALS);

4. Expanded Tertiary Education Equivalency and Accreditation Program (ETEEAP); and

5. Ladderized Education program (LEP).

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On Transparency and Accountability

1. Transparency of systems and processes;

2. Elimination of corrupt and questionable practices in CHED;

3. Elimination of corrupt and questionable practices in SUCs; and

4. Recognition of CHED as a clean and honest agency.

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On Organizational Development at CHED

1. As a modern, technology-enabled organization;

2. As an efficient, service-oriented, empowering, happy organization;

3. CHED’s physical plant is clean, well-maintained, attractive and user-friendly and client-friendly; and

4. Relevant and interested in national and global issues.

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Higher Education Higher Education Institutions: Institutions: Addressing Addressing

Current Issues and Current Issues and ChallengesChallengesIf we work together, we can

create an educational environment capable of

generating and nurturing development that will produce globally competent individuals

who are well equipped with general knowledge and

intellectual capacities needed by the industry….

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Higher Education Higher Education Institutions: Institutions: Addressing Addressing

Current Issues and Current Issues and ChallengesChallengesCHED needs your help

– we need the help of professional associations

like AHEIR. Let us all together chart the

direction of our higher education in the country.

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Higher Education Higher Education Institutions: Institutions: Addressing Addressing

Current Issues and Current Issues and ChallengesChallengesThank you

very much!Sources: -NONA S. RICAFORT, CHED NONA S. RICAFORT, CHED CommissionerCommissioner-Dr. LEONIDA S. CALAGUI, CESO III- Association of Higher Education - Association of Higher Education Institutions Institutions Region – IVA (AHEIR)Region – IVA (AHEIR)- www.youtube.com- www.youtube.com