TITA C. VALDERAMA, People's Journal
OUT-OF-SCHOOL youths and adults who have completed elementary education will have a chance to continue their studies towards earning a college degree through an "open high school" program that Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman is pushing for enactment.
The House committee on basic education has endorsed for plenary discussion the proposed program contained in House Bill No. 12. It was patterned after the "open university" system that was institutionalized a few years ago through legislation.
Lagman described the program as an "innovative, alternative and inexpensive" delivery of the secondary education to the masses.
"In an open high school system, the student most of the time studies independently at his
OPEN. “In an open high school system, the student most of the time studies independently at his own pace without constant or daily student-teacher interaction and at home without need of a classroom.”
own pace without constant or daily student-teacher interaction and at home without need of a classroom," he explained.
"The system utilizes print, radio, television, and computer-based communications, satellite broadcasting, teleconferencing and other multi-media learning and teaching technologies that allow students to study on their own without having to regularly attend classes in conventional classrooms," he said.
Potential beneficiaries of the program include children of high school age who are out of school because they have to stay at home during school hours to take care of their younger siblings and do household chores to allow their parents and elders to earn a living or they themselves are working in order to augment the family income; children who cannot attend classes regularly because their homes are too far from the nearest high school, youthful offenders who cannot attend conventional classes because they are detained in correctional institutions or rehabilitation centers and those whose education is hampered by armed conflicts like some areas in Mindanao and certain portions in Luzon and the Visayas.
OUT-OF-SCHOOL youths and adults who have completed elementary education will have a chance to continue their studies towards earning a college degree through an "open high school" program that Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman is pushing for enactment.
The House committee on basic education has endorsed for plenary discussion the proposed program contained in House Bill No. 12. It was patterned after the "open university" system that was institutionalized a few years ago through legislation.
Lagman described the program as an "innovative, alternative and inexpensive" delivery of the secondary education to the masses.
"In an open high school system, the student most of the time studies independently at his
OPEN. “In an open high school system, the student most of the time studies independently at his own pace without constant or daily student-teacher interaction and at home without need of a classroom.”
own pace without constant or daily student-teacher interaction and at home without need of a classroom," he explained.
"The system utilizes print, radio, television, and computer-based communications, satellite broadcasting, teleconferencing and other multi-media learning and teaching technologies that allow students to study on their own without having to regularly attend classes in conventional classrooms," he said.
Potential beneficiaries of the program include children of high school age who are out of school because they have to stay at home during school hours to take care of their younger siblings and do household chores to allow their parents and elders to earn a living or they themselves are working in order to augment the family income; children who cannot attend classes regularly because their homes are too far from the nearest high school, youthful offenders who cannot attend conventional classes because they are detained in correctional institutions or rehabilitation centers and those whose education is hampered by armed conflicts like some areas in Mindanao and certain portions in Luzon and the Visayas.
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