Every learner should be functionally literate, equipped with life skills, appreciate of arts and sports and imbued with desirable values of a person who is makabayan, makatao, makakalikasan, at maka-Diyos.

Provide a quality basic education.

The BEC is developed through a dynamic process.

The process is interactive, collaborative and innovative.

Four example are: thematic teaching, content-based instruction, focusing inquiry and generic competency.

Focused only on elementary level.

The goals was to improve learning achievement, completion of rates, access to quality elementary education

Aimed to build institutional capacity of the Department of Education to manage change and actively involve parents, teachers, community leaders as stakeholders for quality education.

Improve equitable access to secondary education in poverty affected areas.

Improve the quality and relevance of secondary education in project provinces;

To increase the rates of participation in and completion of secondary education in the underserved areas;

To support the decentralization process towards the transfer of greater management responsibilities and decision-making authority to the school and offices at the provincial levels.

Aims to develop elementary school teachers who are either generalist who can teach across the different areas in grade school, special education and pre-school.

Aims to develop highschool teachers who can teach in one of the different areas in highschool.

Bachelor of Secondary Education