1. EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY REPORT
PREPARED BY: GROUP 5
DR. RAMON SIMBULAN
PROFESSOR

2. Contributory Factors to Poor
Quality Education in the
Philippine Setting

3. . 1The government only
spends 12percent of the
national budget for
education that is far from
the suggested cut of the
World Bank which is 20%.
Our finance to education
is very far from other
Asian countries like
Malaysia and Thailand.

4. 2. Economic Status

5.  The poor never really place education as one
of their top priorities. They prioritize basic
needs such as food and shelter. As it turns
out, food and shelter are both categorized
under basic needs, which are needed for
immediate survival, while education (and
health care) on the other hand, is an essential
need that is necessary for future survival. In
most cases, the poor, having only limited
income and resources, forgo future survival,
for immediate survival just to make ends
meet in their daily expenditures.

7.  For families earning around P50,000-P59,999
annually, 57.6% of that amount is already
allocated for food alone. 18.6% is handed for
shelter, 3.7% is for clothing, 3.2% is for transport,
and 12.7% for other expenses. Education and
medical care are both in the bottom list with
2.4% and 1.8% respectively (National Statistics
Office). These figures abide by the Engle law,
wherein the percentage of food increases as
income decreases which suggests a climbing
intensity of poverty in the other basic needs. In
short, the poorer the family, the more
importance is given to basic needs and education
gets neglected in the process.

8.  3. The government is
very slow in giving
quality and standardized
education to provinces.
They rather give much
time to schools near in
Manila.

10.  Education always had a part in the Philippine
governments policies. Education always had
a contribution in the formulation of
Government policies. Since the 1946
introduction of free education for the primary
level, numerous programs and projects have
been launched to distribute education to the
entire population. Unfortunately, as
promising as these programs were, some key
factors were overlooked, thus resulting in an
ironic deterioration of the educational
system. Instead of reaping the products of
these programs, the backfire only entrenched
the rooting problem.

11. 4. Low salaries of
teachers.

13.  One of the key elements is that the government
gave more priority to the quantity of admission,
rather than to the quality of education. The
government paid little attention to other factors
such as facilities and teacher salaries, and only
concentrated on getting classrooms filled and
overcrowded. In most cases, public schools had to
take shifts in order to accommodate such large
volumes of students. As a result, the school has to
cut down time spent on lessons and subjects per day.
In addition, the teachers often have to manage with
obsolete equipment due to in adequate funding.
Since their salaries are low, only a handful desires
the teaching profession, thus increasing the ratio
between pupil and teacher. As a result, teachers
have to handle a bigger volume of students making
the quality of education degraded.

14. 5. Lack of classrooms,
cut down number of
students.
Instructional materials
for teachers are not
enough.

16.  This crisis raises the stakes on the productivity level of
the future workforce. As it turns out, the highest
educational attainment for 72% of all poor households
is primary education. Plus More than 50% of children
do not reach grade six (6), they tend to be school
dropouts as early as grade one (1). This means that at
tender ages of 7-8 years, these children are cursed to a
life of poverty. In addition, 67% of children, who get to
finish the intermediate levels don’t even proceed to
high school. Finally, for those who enter secondary
schooling, they drop out after their first or second
year. At this rate, almost 55% of those entering the
labor force will only have attained first year high
school education. These staggering figures pose a big
gamble indeed for the country’s economic progress.

17. OUR
EDUCATION

18. In the area of primary
education, the
Philippines ranked 99th
out of 138 economies.
The Philippines ranked
69th in educational
system, 112th in science
and math, and 76th on
Internet access.

19.  The Philippines ranks a poor seventh among nine
Southeast Asian nations in the area of education
and innovation
 The results of the 2010-2011 Global
Competitiveness Report of the World Economic
Forum, which showed that the Philippines only
fared better than Cambodia, among the eight
Southeast Asian countries that were surveyed in
the fields of education, science and technology
and innovation.
 In all categories, the Philippines was falling
behind Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia,
Thailand and Vietnam.

20. 6.BIG MONEYS
USUALLY GO TO
DEFENSE AND
CORRUPTION!!

21. Thank You and May
GOD Bless Us