By offering chances for learning opportunities, Filipinos can make choices to maximize their potential and experience personal development through gainful employment. No one should be left behind. MBOpinions READ:
Last Friday April 21, which fittingly was Eid al-Fitr, I had the honor and privilege of delivering the keynote message at the mid-year commencement exercises of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines . I am also grateful and humbled when I accepted the “Tanglaw ng Bayan” award from the university. To be considered as one of those who made a significant contribution to Philippine society is a recognition I will forever cherish.
I also explained to the graduates the connection of choices and chances. Choices are their conscious decisions that can define the path of their future. Chances, on the other hand, are the opportunities that they can either choose to grab or let go. People see chances, but they make choices from those chances.
Further, available data indicate that education lost space in national budgets of low- and lower-middle income countries in 2021 and 2022. From 28 percent in 2019, nearly 41 percent of lower income countries reduced their spending on education after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, with an average decline in spending of 13.5 percent. In contrast, wealthier economies guarded education spending in the last two years.
Our country’s education sector has been receiving the highest budget allocation, even averaging 17.2 percent of the total national budget, or 3.6 percent of the gross domestic product , since 2016. Our vice president and secretary of Education Sara Duterte is also determined to work towards better quality of education and the chance for continuous learning for all.
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