The Present Educational System in the Philippines

 The Present Educational System in the Philippines

1. Formal Education - refers to the hierarchically structures and chronological graded learning's organized by the formal school system and for which certification is required in order for the learners to progress through the grade or move to higher levels. 

Formal Education shall correspond to the following level:

a. Elementary Level - first stage of compulsory, formal education primarily concerned with providing basic education and usually corresponding to grade six or grade seven including pre-elementary of Kindergarten.

b. Secondary Level - this concerned primarily with continuing basic education and expanding it to include the learning of employable gainful skills, usually corresponding ton Grade 7 to Grade 10 ( First Year to Fourth Year) or Junior High School today and Grade 11-12 (Senior High School) under the Kto12 Educational System innovation of 2016.

c. Tertiary Education - it leads to a Degree in a Profession or discipline in a Colleges of Universities.

2. Non-Formal Education (Alternative Learning System or ALS) - aimed at attaining specific learning objectives (Field of Study) for particular group of learners (young and adults) specially the illiterate, distinction form the outside the regular offerings of the formal school system.

3. Special Education (SPED) - the education of persons who are physically, mentally, emotionally, socially or culturally different from so called "normal" individuals that they require modification of school practices/service to develop them to their maximum capacity.

a. Fast learners with extraordinary skills and intelligence quotient

b. Disabled person (Blind, Deep and Mute and Physically Handicapped)

c. Cultural Minorities (Agta/Aeta Community)

d. Children in conflict with the law (Juvenile Delinquent)

e. Refugees