Hiring more and hiring better (Day 26)
by Rey Laguda(This is the 26th day of 50-day journey of DepEd Undersecretary Rey Laguda as being serialized here with his permission, culled from his Facebook account - Blogger/owner)
The success of any education system greatly relies on the competence of its teachers. The Department of Education has been hiring teachers on a massive scale. From 2010 to 2015, 172,471 teaching items created were filled up. The average teacher:student ratio has gone down from 1:39 (2009) to 1:36 (2014) and from 1:38 to 1:27 for elementary schools and high schools respectively. For SY 2016-2017, 22,000 new teaching positions have been created for K to 10, while more than 36,000 new positions will be opened for Senior High School (SHS).
