EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY REPORT

PREPARED BY: GROUP 5

DR. RAMON SIMBULANPROFESSOR

Contributory Factors to Poor Quality Education in the

Philippine Setting

. 1The government only spends 12percent of the national budget for education that is far from the suggested cut of the World Bank which is 20%. Our finance to education is very far from other Asian countries like Malaysia and Thailand.

2.Economic Status

The poor never really place education as one of their top priorities. They prioritize basic needs such as food and shelter. As it turns out, food and shelter are both categorized under basic needs, which are needed for immediate survival, while education (and health care) on the other hand, is an essential need that is necessary for future survival. In most cases, the poor, having only limited income and resources, forgo future survival, for immediate survival just to make ends meet in their daily expenditures.

For families earning around P50,000-P59,999 annually, 57.6% of that amount is already allocated for food alone. 18.6% is handed for shelter, 3.7% is for clothing, 3.2% is for transport, and 12.7% for other expenses. Education and medical care are both in the bottom list with 2.4% and 1.8% respectively (National Statistics Office). These figures abide by the Engle law, wherein the percentage of food increases as income decreases which suggests a climbing intensity of poverty in the other basic needs. In short, the poorer the family, the more importance is given to basic needs and education gets neglected in the process.

3. The government is very slow in giving quality and standardized education to provinces. They rather give much time to schools near in Manila.

Education always had a part in the Philippine governments policies. Education always had a contribution in the formulation of Government policies. Since the 1946 introduction of free education for the primary level, numerous programs and projects have been launched to distribute education to the entire population. Unfortunately, as promising as these programs were, some key factors were overlooked, thus resulting in an ironic deterioration of the educational system. Instead of reaping the products of these programs, the backfire only entrenched the rooting problem.

4. Low salaries of teachers.

One of the key elements is that the government gave more priority to the quantity of admission, rather than to the quality of education. The government paid little attention to other factors such as facilities and teacher salaries, and only concentrated on getting classrooms filled and overcrowded. In most cases, public schools had to take shifts in order to accommodate such large volumes of students. As a result, the school has to cut down time spent on lessons and subjects per day. In addition, the teachers often have to manage with obsolete equipment due to in adequate funding. Since their salaries are low, only a handful desires the teaching profession, thus increasing the ratio between pupil and teacher. As a result, teachers have to handle a bigger volume of students making the quality of education degraded.

5. Lack of classrooms, cut down number of students.

Instructional materials for teachers are not enough.

This crisis raises the stakes on the productivity level of the future workforce. As it turns out, the highest educational attainment for 72% of all poor households is primary education. Plus More than 50% of children do not reach grade six (6), they tend to be school dropouts as early as grade one (1). This means that at tender ages of 7-8 years, these children are cursed to a life of poverty. In addition, 67% of children, who get to finish the intermediate levels don’t even proceed to high school. Finally, for those who enter secondary schooling, they drop out after their first or second year. At this rate, almost 55% of those entering the labor force will only have attained first year high school education. These staggering figures pose a big gamble indeed for the country’s economic progress.

OUR EDUCATION

In the area of primary education, the Philippines ranked 99th out of 138 economies. The Philippines ranked 69th in educational system, 112th in science and math, and 76th on Internet access.

The Philippines ranks a poor seventh among nine Southeast Asian nations in the area of education and innovation

The results of the 2010-2011 Global Competitiveness Report of the World Economic Forum, which showed that the Philippines only fared better than Cambodia, among the eight Southeast Asian countries that were surveyed in the fields of education, science and technology and innovation.

In all categories, the Philippines was falling behind Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam.

6.BIG MONEYS USUALLY GO TO DEFENSE AND CORRUPTION!!

Thank You and May GOD Bless Us