POLITICAL ANNOTATION No. 54 BY DEGUZMAN The chance is so dim for higher educational institutions (HEI) to avoid extinction from the industry due to interim transition of K-12 reform. More so, if the subject institutions do not have complete BED offering in their educational portfolio where they will surely force either to trim down its personnel or pay an exorbitant separation amount to the displaced teaching staff as a result of two-year period of nil college population commencing in 2016. Even after the two-year window period of no college enrolment, their market (graduating senior high school students) will be segmented into three major tracks which are tech voc, entrepreneurship and the academic. In this case, all HEIs will experience enrolment recession or depression which may cause certain bankruptcy especially to the small or medium or minor players of the scale of economy. If the government will play dead or ignore this serious problem, I suggest for those school owners to convert their businesses into hotel, subdivision or cemetery on that matter in order to avoid idling of their assets. EXCERPT FROMnewsinfo.inquirer.net/421397/bankruptcy-threatens-private-colleges-universities#ixzz2VRJeBtj3 For private high schools, colleges and universities, survival is the name of the game when the roll-out of the K to 12 (kindergarten to Grade 12) reform is completed. The mainstreaming of Grades 11 and 12 come 2016 has schools planning ahead to expand to senior high school while at the same time bracing up for the worst. “Private schools support the K to 12 because we need it. But the transition can be dangerous if it’s not done properly. There are basic survival issues,” said Dr. Jose Paulo Campos, chairman of the Coordinating Council for Private Educational Associations (Cocopea), one of the country’s largest umbrella organizations of private schools. Cocopea, which represents more than 2,000 private schools and five educational associations, has supported the K to 12 agenda of the Department of Education (DepEd) to “raise the overall quality” of the basic education system. But with the reform, many private colleges and universities schools face bankruptcy because of disruptions in enrollment, said Campos, president of the Emilio Aguinaldo College (EAC) in Manila. Although President Aquino signed the law mandating K to 12, many policy issues remained to be threshed out. “We are at a crossroads where there has to be a policy decision and it should be done at the soonest possible time,” Campos said. Since high school students will remain in senior high school for two more years, from 2016 to 2017, there will be no college freshmen enrollees during these years.
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