If he’s elected as President, there’s no doubt that Mar Roxas would be “committed to the continuation” of the transition to K-12.
“Roxas recently reiterated his support for the government’s K-12 program, which adds two more years to the country’s basic education cycle. He believes that the additional two years to the four-year secondary-level education were necessary to help the Philippines in transition to a ‘knowledge economy,'” reports Yuji Vincent Gonzales on Inquirer.net.
Speaking before hundreds of university officials and student leaders that during the 6th National Congress of the Coordinating Council of Private Educational Association of the Philippines in Quezon City, Roxas explained, “I can only say that, clearly, this is something that we needed to do, as hard as it has been. The additional two years is undebatable.”
He added, “This period that we are in is the time of knowledge economy, transitioning to jobs that require skill competence. We need to be able to prepare our country, our people for this transition.”
Roxas, however, acknowledged that the government had its work cut out for it because of obstacles concerning physical infrastructure.
