Regulating Computer Schools
Stricter regulations are being put in place to govern local IT schools because of the growing number of jobless, poorly-trained IT graduates.
In the wake of protest actions conducted earlier in the year by hundreds of jobless IT graduates, the government finally admitted that some IT schools were raising false hopes among students, as well as their parents, by promising these students jobs right after graduating.
A group of former youth leaders and activists came forward to press for stricter regulations of local IT schools because of the growing number of jobless IT graduates who received poor-quality education from IT diploma mills that have mushroomed all over the country. The group, called Union for Fresh Leadership, together with more than 100 jobless IT graduates staged a rally in front of the Microsoft Philippines office to voice their concerns and to try to gain support for their cause, said Joel Badong, U-lead spokesperson.
To address this problem, the Technical Panel for IT Education (TPITE) of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) lined up three major programs that seek to address faculty development for IT teachers, the accreditation of IT schools and the industry readiness of IT graduates. Dr. Paulino Tan, a member of the TPITE, said the programs include a Masters in IT program for teachers; evaluation of IT schools through an accreditation and quality assurance program focused on IT and Computer Science courses; and matching the demands of the industry with the graduates being produced by the academe.
To equip more schools with PCs, the DTI, the lead agency implementing the PCs for Public Schools program of the government, announced plans for a second round for the project to reach another 1,000 public high school students nationwide. A total of 14,600 units of computers have already been delivered to 730 public high schools in Luzon and Visayas. The full rollout to more than 200 high schools in Mindanao already started.
To supplement the DTI's project, two senators started a project to set up a P20-million fund to help develop government education services geared towards IT. In an interview with Computerworld Philippines, Senator Francis Pangilinan said he and Senator Ramon Magsaysay Jr. are hoping to pool some P10 million to P20 million from their Countrywide Development Fund (CDF) to speed up the computerization of public schools
In the wake of protest actions conducted earlier in the year by hundreds of jobless IT graduates, the government finally admitted that some IT schools were raising false hopes among students, as well as their parents, by promising these students jobs right after graduating.
A group of former youth leaders and activists came forward to press for stricter regulations of local IT schools because of the growing number of jobless IT graduates who received poor-quality education from IT diploma mills that have mushroomed all over the country. The group, called Union for Fresh Leadership, together with more than 100 jobless IT graduates staged a rally in front of the Microsoft Philippines office to voice their concerns and to try to gain support for their cause, said Joel Badong, U-lead spokesperson.
To address this problem, the Technical Panel for IT Education (TPITE) of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) lined up three major programs that seek to address faculty development for IT teachers, the accreditation of IT schools and the industry readiness of IT graduates. Dr. Paulino Tan, a member of the TPITE, said the programs include a Masters in IT program for teachers; evaluation of IT schools through an accreditation and quality assurance program focused on IT and Computer Science courses; and matching the demands of the industry with the graduates being produced by the academe.
To equip more schools with PCs, the DTI, the lead agency implementing the PCs for Public Schools program of the government, announced plans for a second round for the project to reach another 1,000 public high school students nationwide. A total of 14,600 units of computers have already been delivered to 730 public high schools in Luzon and Visayas. The full rollout to more than 200 high schools in Mindanao already started.
To supplement the DTI's project, two senators started a project to set up a P20-million fund to help develop government education services geared towards IT. In an interview with Computerworld Philippines, Senator Francis Pangilinan said he and Senator Ramon Magsaysay Jr. are hoping to pool some P10 million to P20 million from their Countrywide Development Fund (CDF) to speed up the computerization of public schools
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