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Title of Built Name Year Remarks

The 1987 Constitution Article XIV Education, Science and Technology, Arts, Culture

and Sports

1987 Protection and promotion of the citizens right to

quality education at all levels and take appropriate

steps to make such education accessible to all.

REPUBLIC ACT No. 7722 An Act Creating the Commission on Higher Education,

Approaching Funds Therefore and for Other Purposes

1994 CHED

REPUBLIC ACT No. 7796 An Act Creating the Technical Education and Skills Development

Authority, Providing for its Powers, Structure and for other

Purposes.

1994 Created TESDA

REPUBLIC ACT No. 9155 An Act Instituting a Framework of Governance for Basic

Education, Establishing Authority and Accountability, Renaming

the Department of Education, culture and Sports as the

Department of Education and for other Purposes

2001 Protecting and promoting citizens right to qualify

basic education and to make such education

accessible to all by providing all Filipino children a

free and compulsory education in elementary level

and free education in the high school level.

EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 356 Renaming the Bureau of Non-Formal Education of Bureau of

Alternative Learning System

2001

PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 6-A Authorizing the Undertaking of Educational Development

Projects, Providing for the Mechanics of Implementation andFinancing Thereof, and for Other Purposes

1972 Ensuring within the context of a free and democratic

system maximum contribution of the educationalsystem to the attainment of the national development

goals.

BATAS PAMBANSA Blg. 232 An Act Providing for the Establishment and Maintenance of an

Integrated System of Education

1982 Establishing and maintaining a complete, adequate

and integrated system of education relevant to the

goals of national development.

REPUBLIC ACT No. 4670 The Magna Carta for Public School Teachers 1966 Promoting and improving of the social and economic

status of public school teachers, their living and

working conditions, their employment and career

prospects in order that they may compare favorably

with existing opportunities in other walks of life,

attract and retain in the teaching profession more

people with the proper qualification, it beingrecognized that advance in education depends on the

qualification and ability of the teaching staff and that

education is an essential factor in the economic

growth of the nation as a productive investment of

vital importance.

PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 1006 Providing for the Professionalization of Teachers, Regulating

their Practices in the Philippines and for Other Purposes

1977 Teaching became a profession.

REPUBLIC ACT No. 7836 An Act to S trengthen the Regulation and Supervision of the

Practice of Teaching in the Philippines and Prescribing a

Licensure Examination for Teachers and for Other Purposes

1994 A Licensure for teachers


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REPUBLIC ACT No. 9293 An Act Amending Certain Sections of Republic Act Numbered

Seventy-Eight Hundred and Thirty-Six (R.A. No. 7836)

1994 Teachers certificate units requirements changed from

10-18 units.

RESOLUTION No. 435 Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers 1997 Covers all public and private school teachers in all

educational whether academic, vocational, special,

technical, or non-formal.

REPUBLIC ACT No. 7610 Excerpts: Special Protection of Children Against Child Abuse,Exploitation and Discrimination Act

Other acts of neglect, abuse, cruelty or exploitationand other prejudicial to the childs development.

REPUBLIC ACT No. 7877 An Act Declaring Sexual Harassment Unlawful in the

Employment, Education, and for Other Purposes

1995 Value the dignity of every individual, enhance the

development of its human resources, guarantee full

respect for human rights, and uphold the dignity of

workers, employees, applicants for employment,

students or those undergoing training, instruction or

education.

EXCERPTS from REPUBLIC ACT

No. 8980

An Act promulgating a comprehensive policy and a National

System for Early Childhood Care and a National System for Early

Childhood Care and Development (ECCD), providing funds

therefore and for other purposes.

Promotion of the rights of children to survival,

development and special protection with full

recognition of the nature of childhood and its special

needs; and to support parents in their roles as primary

caregivers and as their childrens first teachers.UNESCO Four Pillars of Education 1998 Learning to know

Learning to do

Learning to live together

Learning to be (Delors)


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