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A Reflection Paper on

DepEd, CHED and TESDA: A Summary of Organizational Structures,

Visions, Missions and Functions
In partial fulfillment of the Requirements in
LEGAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION
(EA103)
Submitted by:
Ms. Dancel A. Udquim
MEM Student
M13118

Submitted to:
DR. CRISTY CASTILLO MICLAT
Professo

DEPED, CHED AND TESDA: A SUMMARY

The creation of CHED was part of a broad agenda for reforms in the country's education system, outlined by the Congressional Commission on
Education (EDCOM) in 1992. Part of the reforms is the trifocalization of the education sector. The three governing bodies in the education sector are

the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) for tertiary and graduate education, the Department of Education (DepEd) for basic education, and the
Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) for technical-vocational and middle level education.
A. ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF DEPED

Based from the organizational structure of the Department of Education, the highest office of the organization is the Office of the Secretary which is
headed by Secretary of Education, now Bro. Armin Luistro. He was nominated by the President of the Philippines and confirmed by the Commission
on Appointments. The main divisions of the DepEd Office are:

Administrative Service

Financial Management Service

Human Resource Development Service

Planning Service

Technical Service

Educational Development Project Implementing Task Force

National Education and Research Center

School Health and Education Center

National Educators Academy of the Philippines

National Science Teaching Instrumentation Center

Staff Development Division

Regional Office
At present, the Department is headed by the Secretary of Education, with the following undersecretaries and assistant secretaries:

Undersecretary for Finance and Administration

Undersecretary for Legal Affairs

Undersecretary for Programs and Projects

Undersecretary for Regional Operations

Assistant Secretary/Chief of Staff

Assistant Secretary for Finance

Assistant Secretary for Legal Affairs

Assistant Secretary for Planning

Assistant Secretary for Programs & Projects

Under the Office of the Secretary are the following offices and services:

Administrative Services

Financial and Management Service

Human Resource Development Service

Planning Service

Technical Service

A regional director is assigned to each of the 17 regions of the Philippines. A division superintendent is assigned to each of the school divisions
defined by the Department.
Bureaus
DepEd is composed of eight bureaus,[8] namely:

Bureau of Alternative Learning Systems (BALS), formerly the Bureau of Non-Formal Education

Bureau of Elementary Education (BEE)

Bureau of Secondary Education (BSE)

Educational Development Projects Implementing Task Force (EDPITF)

Health and Nutrition Center (HNC)

National Education Testing and Research Center (NETRC)

National Educators Academy of the Philippines (NEAP)

Technical-Vocational Education Task Force (TVTF)

Attached Agencies
The following agencies, councils and schools are attached to DepEd for policy and program coordination:

Instructional Materials Council (IMC)

National Book Development Board (NBDB)

National Council for Children's Television (NCCT)

National Museum

National Science Teaching Instrumentation Center (NSTIC)

Philippine High School for the Arts (PHSA)

DEPED, CHED AND TESDA: A SUMMARY

CHED ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

DEPED, CHED AND TESDA: A SUMMARYThe CHED was established on May 18, 1994 through Republic Act No. 7722 or the

Higher Education Act of 1994 which was authored by Senator Francisco Tatad.

The Chairman of CHED is also the Chairperson of the Board of Regents of the University of the Philippines and
she is now Patricia B. Licuanan. She holds the office of the chairperson and leads the 3 Major Department of
CHED: Higher Education Development Fund Staff , International Affairs Staff and the Office of the Executive

Director in charge 6 services including the Administrative-Financial Management Service, Legal and Legislative,
Office of the Planning, Office of the Programs and Standard Development, Office of the Institutional Quality
Assurance and Government, Office of the Student Development and the 17 Regional Services.
TESDA Organizational Structure

GOVERNMENT SECTOR
ATTY. ROSALINDA D.
BALDOZ
CHAIRPERSON
Secretary, Department of
Labor and Employment
(DOLE)
SECRETARY EMMANUEL
JOEL J. VILLANUEVA
ALTERNATE CHAIR
Director General, Technical
Education & Skills
Development Authority
(TESDA)
SECRETARY ARMIN A.
LUISTRO, FSC
CO-CHAIR
Department of Education
(DepEd)
SECRETARY GREGORY A.
DOMINGO
CO-CHAIR
SECRETARY PROCESO J.
ALCALA
Department of Agriculture
(DA)
SECRETARY MANUEL A.
ROXAS III
Department of Interior and
Local Government (DILG)
SECRETARY MARIO G.
MONTEJO
Department of Science and
Technology (DOST)
DR. PATRICIA B. LICUANAN,

TESDA BOARD MEMBERS

LABOR SECTOR
BUSINESS AND INVESTMENT
SECTOR
MR. ISIDRO ANTONIO
MR. FERNANDINO T.
C. ASPER
LISING
Vice President for
Consul a.h.
External Affairs,
Consulate General of the
Federation of Free
Republic of Poland
Workers (FFW)
LTCOL MARIA ROXANNE
ATTY. BAYANI G. DIWA
ANTONIO-SINGSON, CSP
President
President/Owner
Right Eight Security Agency Inc.

TESDA BOARD
SECRETARIAT
ATTY. IMELDA Mel T.
ONG, Designated Board
Secretary
LIGAYA Gay D.
ALCAZAREN,
Administrative Officer V
CANDIDO Dong S.
DAPULAYAN, Administrative
Assistant III

Ph. D
Chairman, Commission on
Higher Education (CHED)

LOGO

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

COMMISSION OH HIGHER EDUCATION

VISION

We dream of Filipinos who passionately love

their
country
and whose values and competencies enable them
to realize their full potential and contribute
meaningfully to building the nation.
As a learner-centered public institution, the
Department of Education continuously improves
itself to better serve its stakeholders.

MISSION

To protect and promote the right of every Filipino

to quality, equitable, culture-based, and complete
basic education where:
- Students learn in a child-friendly, gendersensitive, safe, and motivating environment
- Teachers facilitate learning and constantly

The Commission on Higher Education (CHED)

is the key leader of the Philippine Higher
Education System effectively working in
partnership with other major higher education
stakeholders in building the countrys human
capital and innovation capacity towards the
development of a Filipino Nation as a
responsible member of the international
community.
Given the national governments commitment to
transformational leadership that puts education
as the central strategy for investing in the
Filipino people, reducing poverty, and building
national competitiveness and pursuant to
Republic Act 7722, CHED shall:

TECH. EDUC. IN SKILLS DEV.

AUTHORITY
TESDA is the leading partner in the
development of the Filipino workforce with
world-class competence and positive work
values.

TESDA provides direction, policies,

programs and standards towards quality
technical education and skills development.

nurture
every learner
- Administrators and staff, as stewards of the
institution, ensure an enabling and supportive
environment for effective learning to happen
- Family, community, and other stakeholders are
actively engaged and share responsibility for
developing life-long learners

-Promote relevant and quality higher education

(i.e. higher education institutions and programs
are at par with international standards and
graduates and professionals are highly
competent and recognized in the international
arena);
-Ensure that quality higher education is
accessible to all who seek it particularly those
who may not be able to afford it;
guarantee and protect academic freedom for
continuing intellectual growth, advancement of
learning and research, development of
responsible and effective leadership, education
of high level professionals, and enrichment of
historical and cultural heritages; and
-Commit to moral ascendancy that eradicates
corrupt practices, institutionalizes transparency
and accountability and encourages participatory
governance in the Commission and the subsector.

FUNCTIO
N

The Department of Education (DepEd)

formulates, implements, and coordinates policies,
plans, programs and projects in the areas of
formal and non-formal basic education. It
supervises all elementary and secondary
education institutions, including alternative
learning systems, both public and private; and
provides for the establishment and maintenance of
a complete, adequate, and integrated system of
basic education relevant to the goals of national
development.

Per Section 8 of R.A. 7722, the CHED

has the following powers and
functions:
Formulate and recommend
development plans, policies
,priorities, and programs on
higher education;
Formulate and recommend
development plans, policies,
priorities, and programs on
research;
Recommend to the executive and
legislative branches priorities and
grants on higher education and
research;
Set minimum standards for
programs and institutions of
higher learning recommended by
panels of experts in the field and
subject to public hearing, and
enforced the same;

The Technical Education and Skills

Development Authority (TESDA) is the
government agency tasked to manage and
supervise technical education and skills
development (TESD) in the Philippines.

 Monitor and evaluate the

performance of programs and
institutions of higher learning for
appropriate incentives as well as
the imposition of sanctions such
as, but not limited to, diminution
or withdrawal of subsidy,
recommendation on the
downgrading or withdrawal of
accreditation, program
termination or school course;
Identify, support and develop
potential centers of excellence in
program areas needed for the
development of world-class
scholarship, nation building and
national development;
Recommend to the Department
of Budget and Management
(DBM) the budgets of public
institutions of higher learning as
well as general guidelines for the
use of their income;
Rationalize programs and
institutions of higher learning and
set standards, policies and
guidelines for the creation of new
ones as well as the conversion or
elevation of schools to
institutions of higher learning,
subject to budgetary limitations
and the number of institutions of
higher learning in the province or
region where creation, conversion
or elevation is sought to be
made;
Develop criteria for allocating
additional resources such as
research and program
development grants,
scholarships, and the other
similar programs: Provided, that
these shall not detract from the
fiscal autonomy already enjoyed

by colleges and universities;

Direct or redirect purposive
research by institutions of higher
learning to meet the needs of
agro-industrialization and
development;
Devise and implement resource
development schemes;
Administer the Higher Education
Development Fund, as described
in Section 10 of R.A. 7722, which
will promote the purposes of
higher education;
Review the charters of
institutions of higher learning and
state universities and colleges
including the chairmanship and
membership of their governing
bodies and recommend
appropriate measures as basis for
necessary action;
Promulgate such rules and
regulations and exercise such
other powers and functions as
may be necessary to carry out
effectively the purpose and
objectives of R.A. 7722; and
Perform such other functions as
may be necessary for its effective
operations and for the continued
enhancement, growth and
development of higher education

All vision and mission statements of the three agencies are conceptualized and framed in response to and in adherence to
Governance of Basic Education Act of 2001 (RA 9155) which affirms that:

all citizens have the right to access quality basic education

attendance at elementary school is compulsory for Filipino Children
the goal of basic education, higher education and even technical education institution is the provision of skills, knowledge and values enabling
learners to become caring, self-reliant, productive and patriotic citizens

 All three agencies have single aim of providing the best possible basic education for all learners
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) regardless of students characteristics, accountable for achieving mastery, proficiency in the
skills, values to be learned
Prepare them to real life situation where in they can be a productive members of the society.

All three agencies shall have authority, accountability and responsibility for the following:
Setting the mission, vision, goals and objectives of the school;
Creating an environment within the school that is conducive to teaching and learning;
Implementing the school curriculum and being accountable for higher learning outcomes;
Developing the school education program and school improvement plan;
Offering educational programs, projects and services which provide equitable opportunities for all learners in the community;
Train the learners to the best that they can be.