I.

INTRODUCTION

As the country shifted from the old high school curriculum to K to 12, our government
implemented the new curriculum for the year 2012. Students today are experiencing stress and facing
difficult problems regarding the new system of education here in our country. The changes have confused
both parents and incoming high school students. Most of the government officials believed that the K to
12 Curriculum will be the way on lifting our economy as they know that students will be fully equipped by
adding two years of education in High School. There are many senior high school students who want to
pursue college, career choices, however, most of them are still undecided because of the adjustments
that they need to do. Others, somehow, crave to take on the challenges of joining the workforce because
they believe that the. The senior high school curriculum prepares you for college. Most of the companies
are looking for equipped individuals because as the K to 12 has been implemented, they lack professional
graduates as the students need to pursue in senior high school than pursuing to college.

The effectiveness of the K to 12 Program was important to access if this new system of education
really helped those students in deciding for their future career. Academic Track, Technical Vocational
Livelihood Track, Sports Track, and Arts and Design Track are career paths that they may choose after
finishing their Junior High School and if they are pursuing their Senior High School. Those tracks were
divided according to the interest and preferred courses that the students wanted to take in college.

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II. OBJECTIVES

The study aims to know the readiness and effectiveness of Asia Pacific College in terms of
academics and skills in producing career-ready individuals and how much the influence the students’
career future decisions. More specifically, the goals of this output are:

Primary Objectives
 Determine if the taken strand in SHS Program is relevant to the course they plan to take in college
 Identify the factors that APC may have contributed to the effectiveness of making their students
career-ready
 Know if the acquired knowledge and skills in APC would be helpful in being career-ready
 Identify the factors that APC SHS Program has, that are useful in preparing their future.
 Know the preferred courses of APC Senior High School students to take in college.

Secondary Objectives
 Know the number of SHS students that will pursue college in APC
 Identify the numbers of SHS students who would proceed to college instead of working
 Determine the factors that SHS students would consider in choosing their career.

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III. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

This chapter shows the purpose of the study. It focuses on the uses and also the future benefits if
further studies would be done. The people who will benefit from this study will also be discussed.

The primary purpose of this study is to access the effectivity and the relevance of the SHS program
in choosing whether they will continue to college or proceed to work. It will measure how ready and
prepared are the grade 12 students in choosing their career path. The study will also determine if the SHS
program in APC is effective in creating and molding students to become industry-ready. The teaching
method, facilities, professors, and other components in the learning of the students will be evaluated if
effective or not.

This study will serve as a guide for the APC and school administrators to further improve the SHS
program of the school. The effectivity of the teaching method and facilities of the school will be challenged
as a basis for the future plans of the school in improving the program.

This study will not only benefit the SHS program of APC but also the entire SHS program
implemented by the Department of Education. The study can help identify what is lacking and effective in
the SHS program in the Philippines. This can serve as a basis of DepEd to conduct further studies for the
continuous improvement of the SHS program in the country.

Furthermore, this study will serve as model for the future studies of the same nature. Future
researchers will benefit from this study and provide them information and facts that they can use for
comparison with their study.

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IV. SCOPE AND DELIMITATIONS

This chapter presents the scope and delimitation of this output. This focuses on the extent,
boundaries and specific variables of this study generally intended to know the readiness and effectiveness
of Asia Pacific College’s educational approach in making their Grade 12 students career-ready.

The study covers the relevance and effectivity of Senior High School program in Asia Pacific
College to Grade 12 students in choosing their career after Senior High School. The study is exclusive for
the Senior High School students only taking Accountancy, Business and Management (ABM) or Science,
Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) strands. The study is a short-term assessment which is
intended to determine the career opportunities of the Senior High School students after they finish their
high school life. The coverage of this study revolves around how the school, Asia Pacific College, helped
the students to develop their skills to become career-ready. This output focuses on the factors that helped
them improve themselves and made them think if they’re industry-ready or not. There were 100
respondents surveyed through questionnaires and were given ample time to answer after the researchers
collected the data.

The study is delimited to a group of Grade 12 students of Asia Pacific College coming from
Accountancy, Business and Management (ABM) & Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
(STEM) strands. The results of this study could be generalized to Male and Female Grade 12 students who
will (a) enter the industry world after Senior High School and (b) proceed to college after Senior High
School. Perspectives on Asia Pacific College’s (APC) readiness and effectiveness of producing work-ready
and career-ready students is delimited to Grade 12 students’ personal skills and knowledge and 2-year
school experience of learning and developing their own personal skills in APC through the school’s
resources. The survey was conducted to a number of respondents from different sections of different
specializations in accordance to the ratio of ABM and STEM students. They were classified according to
the career they plan to take in the future. In this output, Grade 12 career specializations were delimited
to those only APC offers.

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V. METHODOLOGY

This chapter depicts the in-depth information of the techniques and processes applied in
conducting and analyzing this survey output. This focuses on the sample or population method that was
used in identifying the corresponding individuals who can participate, the instrument used, data
analyzation and the over-all procedure.

A. Samples and Sampling Design

The researcher used two sampling methods which are the stratified and simple random.
With stratified sampling method, the researches divide the population into separate strata. The
entire population of Grade 12 is divided into their strands and sections. From there, the ratio of
ABM students to STEM students and ratio of male and female per section is identified. Next, the
researchers used the simple random sampling which means all the students have equal chances
in being chosen. From the ratio identified students from ABM and STEM were randomly asked to
answer the survey.
For identifying the sample, there were a total of 446 Grade 12 students which is
composed of 125 ABM students and 320 STEM students. They were simplified according to the
number of their population and come up with a 25:64 ratio, ABM and STEM respectively. There
were four sections from the ABM strand that will be subdivided into four strata which results to
7 respondents per section. Also, nine sections from the STEM strand will be subdivided into nine
strata which results to eight respondents per section. For ABM 171 to ABM 174, there were 3
males and 4 females chosen as a sample of a ratio of 3:4. For STEM 172, STEM 173, STEM 175,
and STEM 176, there were 5:3 ratio which means 5 males and 3 females for each section. For
section STEM 177, there were 4 males and females sampled with a ratio of 4:4. Lastly, 6 males
and 2 females were sampled for sections' STEM 178 and 179 with a ratio of 6:2. Sampling were
done according to the ratio of males and females of each strata.

B. Instrument
This study used survey questionnaires to gather and collect data for the study. The
researchers printed survey forms and disseminate it to the sample. The researchers used different
kinds of questions in the survey such as the rating-scale questions, rank-order questions, open-
ended questions, checklist questions, close-ended questions and dichotomous questions.

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 In choosing if the students will work after senior high school or proceed to college, the
researchers used the close-ended type of questions for them to pick between those choices. For
the question of if their chosen strand in SHS program is relevant to the course they plan to take
in College, the researchers made a dichotomous type of question only answering yes or no. For
considering the factors that APC SHS program has, that are helpful in preparing for their future,
the researchers created a checklist type of question choosing among the choices of facilities,
industry professors, quality of education, future immersion, education system approach and
others for the factors not listed on the choices.

The survey questions have dichotomous question, it is to gauge whether their chosen
future career is relevant to what senior high school strand they are taking up now. It is answerable
by yes or no.

It also has checklist type of question, whereas the respondents will check and pick in the
given choices, this is in order for the researchers to know what the APC SHS Program offered to
the students that helped them prepare in their future career path. The choices are: facilities,
industry professors, quality of education, future immersion, and education approach.

Also, there is a close-ended question for the researchers to know whether the
respondents will be working or pursuing college after SHS graduation.

C. Data Analysis
1. Percentage
For the figure 2, percentiles were utilized to determine the number of students
in each preferred course. The total number of students who will pursue college is 96, with
this, the researchers divide the number of students who chose the chosen course into the
total number of students who were answered already the question. Then, multiply it by
100 to get the percentage. Also, to determine the number of students who think that the
strand that they took in SHS is relevant to their chosen course in college, the researchers
used percentages. 83% of the students who would pursue college thinks that the strand
that they took in SHS is relevant to their chosen course in college, while 17% does not

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 think so. The number of students who would pursue college is 96; out of the 96 students,
80 students agreed that the strand that they took in SHS is relevant to their chosen course
in college, while 16 students disagreed.
2. Mean
The researchers have computed the mean in each factor affecting senior high
school students' decisions in their future career decision making. The mean will determine
the factor's rank in order of priority, which SHS students consider when making decisions.
The lower the mean, the higher ranking it has. In computing for the mean, the group
added all the response they have collected and divided it by the total number of sections.
With this, the mean computed are as follows SHS Program – 2.87; Financial Status- 3.02;
Parent's Decision- 3.24; School Location- 3.33; Peer Pressure- 4.30; Another factors- 4.37.
Also, the researchers used the mean to find an accurate representation of the data. For
figure 5.1 their answers (4,4,4, and 5) were added and divided by five which resulted to
3.4. The 3.4 was divided by the highest possible answer 5 and multiplied by 100 to get the
percentage. For figure 5.2 the same process of finding the mean is done. The sum of their
answers (3,3,3, and 4) was divided by 5 which is equal to 2.4. Then, the 2.4 is divided by
5 and multiplied by 100. In addition, the ranking of the factors that may have contributed
in making the students think if they’re work-ready or not was based on the weighted
mean of the rates applied given by the respondents. The factor that was nearest to one
got the first place in terms of effectiveness in making an individual work-ready, while the
one nearest to five got the last place.
3. Mode
The mode is the value that appears most often in the set data. From the data
collected, the number of students who selected the ‘Quality Education’ as an effective
factor in making them career-ready was the highest among all the factors stated in which
it got 84 checks that means only 16 students did not agree.

D. Procedure
1. Survey
The survey questionnaire was formulated in line with the output’s objectives.
Question number 1 aims to determine how many of the respondents would proceed to
college or to work after senior high school. Questions 2, 3, and 4 aims to assess the

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 effectiveness and relativeness of their taken strand in APC’s senior high school program
in their future career decisions. Questions 5 and 6 aims to ascertain the effectiveness and
relativeness of their taken strand in APC’s senior high school program in entering the
industry world. Question number 7 aims to determine how helpful and effective APC’s
resources are in producing career and industry-ready individuals.
2. Means
After the survey questions were formulated, it was proofread by Engr. Rogelio
Ruzcko Tobias before it was distributed to the respective respondents.
3. Implementation
The researchers conducted the survey during the respondents’ afternoon class.
They grouped themselves into 3 groups in which two of the groups were tasked to survey
4 sections while the other group was tasked to survey 5 sections. The survey was done in
one day and was able to survey 100 students.
4. Data Collection
After the survey was conducted, the researchers tallied the answers of the
respondents through Microsoft excel to make it organized an easy to interpret. They
grouped the data accordingly and was able to come up with representational charts to
represent the data collected.

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VI. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
This chapter illustrates the summary of the results of each of the questions from the survey
questionnaires that was formulated generally intended to profile the respondents and determine the
readiness, effectiveness and relevance of Asia Pacific College’s Senior High School Program to its Grade
12 students.
Figure 1. Grade 12 Students’ Plans after Senior High School

ABM (28) STEM (72)

171 172 173 174 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179
WORK Male (3) - - - - - - - - - 1 - 1 1
(4) Female (1) - - - - 1 - - - - - - - -
COLLEGE Male (50) 3 3 3 3 2 5 5 3 5 4 4 5 5
(96) Female (50) 4 4 4 4 5 3 3 5 3 3 4 2 2

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Figure 2. SHS Students’ Preferred Courses in College

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Figure 3. Ranking of What the Senior High School Students Consider Most when They are Deciding
What Career Will They Pursue after Senior High School

Figure 4. Relevance of taken strand in SHS program to the course they plan to take in college

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Figure 5.1 How helpful the APC SHS program is in molding the students to become industry-ready

Figure 5.2 Readiness of APC students in working in the actual industry with the skills they learned

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Figure 6.1 Factor that may have contributed in making the students think if they’re work-ready or not

Own Personality

College Work (Effective; 60%) Work (Uneffective; 40%)

Figure 6.2 Factor that may have contributed in making the students think if they’re work-ready or not

Education System Approach

College Work (Effective; 56%) Work (Uneffective; 44%)

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Figure 6.3 Factor that may have contributed in making the students think if they’re work-ready or not

Quality of Education

College Work (Effective; 60%) Work (Uneffective; 40%)

Figure 6.4 Factor that may have contributed in making the students think if they’re work-ready or not

Industry Professors

College Work (Effective; 48%) Work (Uneffective; 52%)

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Figure 6.5 Factor that may have contributed in making the students think if they’re work-ready or not

APC's Readiness for K-12

College Work (Effective; 60%) Work (Uneffective; 40%)

Figure 7. Ranking of the following factors that APC SHS Program has, that are helpful in preparing their
Grade 12 students in their future

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VII. STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE OUTPUT

This chapter shows the strengths and weaknesses of this output. This focuses on the main points
from the perspective of the date that was collected from Grade 12 students of Asia Pacific college
generally intended to assess what could this output improve more and maintain.

Strengths
 This study shows how student feel about themselves being ready to choose careers, after taking
up SHS in APC
 This study shows the decision making of the SHS student to choose their career
 This study shows or determined the right career opportunities of the Senior High School students
after they finish their high school life
 This study focuses on the factors that helped them improve themselves and made them think if
they’re industry-ready or not
 This study enhanced the decision making of the SHS student to choose their right career
 This study gives idea to SHS student to choose a career after K12 program
 The study shows the effectivity of SHS program in APC to the grade 12 students in choosing their
right career after SHS

Weaknesses
 Some students are not really doing their part in learning process while studying SHS and this will
lead to failure to gauge their readiness to pursue their chosen career
 This study may be affected by the subjective view of the students towards themselves and their
readiness to pursue their chosen career after Senior High School.
 The study will not gauge the overall performance of APC’s Senior High School Program, from the
start of its implementation 4 years ago.
 The study is exclusive for the current batch of Grade 12 Senior High School only, and not for the
entire Senior High School population, starting from APC’s SHS Program pioneer years.
 The study’s result may be affected of future external factors, for there are still two remaining
terms for the Grade 12 SHS students to take, specifically, the Immersion term.

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VIII. SUMMARY OF FINDINGS

This chapter depicts the in-depth information of the survey work undertaken or the summary of
findings made as an outgrowth of this study. This output shows the profile of Grade 12 students in Asia
Pacific College, generally.
On the profiling process, sex, section, specialization, future plans after senior high school and own
preferences were undertaken.

The main findings of the study are as follows:

1. Grade 12 students of Asia Pacific College’s plans after graduating from finish Senior High School
1.1 The chart represents that 96 respondents will proceed to college and only 4 will go to work
after they finish Senior High School. Half of the respondents who chose to proceed to college
were male and the other half are female. All of the ABM students chose to proceed to college
after they finish Senior High School while 68 STEM students will proceed to college and only
4 of them will proceed to work.

2. SHS Students’ Preferred Course in College

2.1 The bar graph shows the representation of the courses the students want to take in college.
There are 96 students who will pursue college; 68 are from STEM strand while 28 are from
ABM strand. Out of 96 respondents, 12 chose Accountancy which was the most preferred
course. Next is Information Technology which has 10 votes, and nine students preferred
Multimedia Arts. On the other hand, three students were still undecided on the course they
will take in college.

3. Senior High School students considered several factors before deciding on what career will they
pursue after high school graduation.
3.1 Senior High School Program as the main considering factor in deciding for future career.
The graduating batch of APC’s SHS Program considered several factors in choosing what
path will they pursue after SHS. They ranked the factors from 1-6, 1 being the most considered
and 6 being the least considered factor when they are deciding for future career. The factors are
ranked according to their mean, the lower the mean is, the more likely the factor will rank up. The

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 grade 12 students responded that the main factor affecting their decision is their taken Senior
High School strand, with its supporting mean 2.87.
3.2 Financial Status as one of the factors affecting SHS students’ decision in choosing careers.
The graduating batch of APC’s SHS Program has also considered their Financial Status as
one of their considering factors and ranked top 2 as the most considered and prioritized factor,
supported with their weighted mean of 3.02.
3.3 External Persons affecting a SHS students’ decision in future decision making with regards to
their career
The grade 12 students of APC also considered external opinions regarding their decision
in choosing their career path, including their parent’s decision and the pressure there are feeling
from their peers. The students consider their parent’s decision and it ranked 3 as the most
prioritized factor in decision making, with its weighted average of 3.24.
Respectively, the peer pressure ranked 5, with the weighted average of 4.30.
3.4 School Location being a factor to consider in making future career decisions.
The grade 12 students of APC have considered their future school locations in choosing
their career path after graduation. It ranked 4th in most considered factor in decision making, with
the weighted average of 3.33.
3.5 Other factors are also considered in making future career decisions.
There are also other factors to consider when making decisions regarding future course.
It ranked last with the weighted average of 4.37.

4. Relevance of taken strand in SHS program to the course they plan to take in college
4.1 The pie shows that out of the 96 SHS students who chose to pursue college 80 students said
that the strand that they took in SHS is relevant to the course that they plan to take in college;
while 16 students said that the strand that they took in SHS is not relevant to the course that
they plan to take in college

5. APC as a foundation of SHS students in entering the actual industry after graduating
5.1 Helpfulness of the SHS program in APC in molding the students to become industry-ready
The Grade 12 students of APC who will not proceed to college assessed APC in terms of
how helpful the school is in preparing them to become industry-ready. 1 being the lowest and
5 being the highest. The ratings 1,2,3,4, and 5 are equal to not helpful at all, somewhat

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 helpful, helpful, very helpful, and more than helpful, respectively. The Grade 12 students in
APC believe that the SHS program of the school helps them transform to become industry-
ready, supported by the weighted mean of 3.4.
5.2 Readiness of the students to work in the actual industry with the current skills they learned
and developed in APC
The Grade 12 students of APC who will not proceed to college assessed themselves in
terms of how ready they are to work in the actual industry having what they have currently
learned and developed in APC. 1 being the lowest and 5 being the highest. The ratings 1,2,3,4,
and 5 are equal to not yet ready, somewhat ready, ready, very ready, and more than ready,
respectively. The Grade 12 students of APC believe that the skills they learned are enough to
prove that they are somewhat ready to work after graduating, supported by the weighted
mean of 2.4.

6. The Grade 12 Students of APC who will not proceed to college after Senior High School assessed
themselves being work-ready according to contribution of the following to their decisions:
6.1 Own Personality
The Grade 12 Students of APC who will not proceed to college after Senior High School
measured the factors that may have contributed in their decision if they think their work-
ready or not in terms of their Own Personality as Effective with a weighted mean of 3.
6.2 Education System Approach
The Grade 12 Students of APC who will not proceed to college after Senior High School
measured the factors that may have contributed in their decision if they think their work-
ready or not in terms of the school’s Education System Approach as Somewhat Effective with
a weighted mean of 2.8.
6.3 Quality of Education
The Grade 12 Students of APC who will not proceed to college after Senior High School
measured the factors that may have contributed in their decision if they think their work-
ready or not in terms of the school’s Quality of Education as Effective with a weighted mean
of 3.
6.4 Industry Professors
The Grade 12 Students of APC who will not proceed to college after Senior High School
measured the factors that may have contributed in their decision if they think their work-

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 ready or not in terms of the school’s Industry Professors as Somewhat Effective with a
weighted mean of 2.4
6.5 APC’s Readiness for the K-12
The Grade 12 Students of APC who will not proceed to college after Senior High School
measured the factors that may have contributed in their decision if they think their work-
ready or not in terms of the school’s Readiness for the K-12 as Effective with a weighted mean
of 3.

7. Grade 12 students assessed the following factors that APC Senior High School program has, that
are helpful in preparing their future:
7.1 Facilities
The Grade 12 students of APC measured the factors that it helps in preparing in their
future in terms of Facilities, it is 3.5th placed with 74 votes.
7.2 Industry Professors
The Grade 12 students of APC measured the factors that it helps in preparing in their
future in terms of Industry Professors, it is 2nd placed with 75 votes.
7.3 Quality Education
The Grade 12 students of APC measured the factors that it helps in preparing in their
future in terms of Quality Education, it is 1st placed with 84 votes.
7.4 Future Immersion
The Grade 12 students of APC measured the factors that it helps in preparing in their
future in terms of Future Immersion, it is 3.5th placed with 74 votes.
7.5 Education System Approach
The Grade 12 students of APC measured the factors that it helps in preparing in their
future in terms of Education System Approach, it is 5th placed with 70 votes.

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IX. CONCLUSIONS

As the researchers of this study done the assessment among Grade 12 students, the result of the
survey was analyzed carefully and properly interpreted the gathered data. Results were based on the
answers of those Grade 12 students who answered the survey questionnaire.

The Department of Education started to implement the new K-12 curriculum system to increase
the number of years of compulsory education to thirteen years; one year of kindergarten, six years of
elementary education, four years of junior high school education and two years of senior high school
education. As part of this program, students were given a privilege to study in their chosen school
supported by the voucher provided by the government for those students who will pursue in Senior High
School. Asia Pacific College offers a Senior High School program for the calendar year 2018-2019 which
composed the specialized track of ABM (Accountancy, Business and Management) and STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). As the researchers of this study conducted this survey to
Grade 12 students, they accessed the effectiveness and the relevance of the SHS program in APC.

Most of those students will proceed to college taking Accountancy as most preferred course for
them followed by Information Technology and Multimedia Arts but some of them were still undecided.
The main factor which affects their decision in choosing the course in college is their chosen strand in
Senior High School followed by their financial status and their parent’s decision. For those students who
will not continue pursuing in college, they believed that the SHS program of the school helps them
transform to become industry-ready. They also believed that the skills they learned are enough to prove
that they are somewhat ready to work after graduating. As a result of the assessment, they ranked
themselves for being work-ready based on their own personality. Education System, Quality of Education,
Industry Professors, Readiness for the K-12 program of the school was also ranked as average. In preparing
for their future, they ranked the quality education of the school as the primary reason followed by its
industry professor, facilities and future immersion.

This whole paper shows the effectiveness of the Senior High School program of APC to those
Grade 12 students. Majority of them will pursue their career path whether they will continue pursuing
college or not, they called themselves as industry-ready by the experienced and learning that they
gathered during their stay in APC.

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X. RECOMMENDATIONS

Based from the conclusions drawn, the following recommendations are hereby proposed:

1. Increase the sample size to draw generalization from the area.

2. Change the research locale and compare the results.

2. Create a comprehensive study about effectivity of K-12 at different research locale to make it more
reliable.

4. Make a study on the SHS program of Asia Pacific College to have a clearer view on how it became a
industry-ready institution.

5. Conduct a study on the factors, why some students will not go to college.

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Education in the Philippines. (n.d) Wikipedia, Retrieval September 2, 2018 from

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_Philippines#Recent_years

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