“He still doesn’t know how to read,” she said by telephone. “I’ve been helping him with his learning modules, but I can only do so much.”
The pandemic and school closures not only jeopardized children’s health and safety with domestic violence and child labor increasing, but also affected student learning substantially, the multilateral lender said. “There is a lot of anecdotal feedback that employers, despite high unemployment, have a hard time hiring because people don’t have the right skills or skill level,” Francisco Alcuaz, Jr., executive director of the Makati Business Club, said in an e-mail. “There are many reasons behind this.”
In an assessment of 15-year-old learners across 79 economies conducted by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development in 2018, the Philippines ranked last in reading comprehension and placed second to the last in science and mathematics.ciency level expected in reading, writing, and math, according to the 2019 Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics.
“We need the president to be an education and nutrition president,” Mr. Alcuaz said. “We need to declare and treat these as emergencies. Without proper nutrition, it’s hard to get an educated workforce.” “The current economic structure is now dominated by the service sector at 40%, with manufacturing and agriculture making up about 30% each,” he said in an e-mail.er science and mathematics-oriented curricula, Mr. Sayo said. “We have dwindling students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and that should be addressed so we could attract investments in manufacturing where we have more value added.”Mr.
“You learn English as a secondary language, not as the primary one,” he said in an e-mail. “If you try to drill English immediately, the processes of understanding the basics are weakened and you produce low-quality graduates with poor understanding of science and technology.” “The BPO business or offshored information and communications technology businesses are bound to have a global workforce involving different nationalities across the globe,” Mr. Ofreneo said.