EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 273
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 273 -
INSTITUTIONALIZING THE SYSTEM OF NATIONAL COORDINATION, ASSESSMENT,
PLANNING AND MONITORING OF THE ENTIRE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
WHEREAS,
the Presidential Commission on Educational Reform, or PCER, was created
in 1998 to continue and build on the work of the 1991 Congressional
Commission on Education (otherwise known as EDCOM) to further
strengthen the role of education in accelerating national development
and global competitiveness;
WHEREAS, the major recommendations of the EDCOM have caused the
restructuring and trifocalization of the management of the country’s
educational system;
WHEREAS, this trifocalization has led to greater focus and depth in the
planning and implementation of development programs of the co-equal
education sub-sectors-namely, basic education, technical education and
skills development and higher education, thus resulting in the
enhancement of the capabilities of these three (3) sub-sectors to
achieve their respective mandates;
WHEREAS, PCER studies point out, as EDCOM anticipated, that the
salutary effects of trifocalization of education notwithstanding, there
are perceived concerns and issues arising from possible overlaps and
gaps as well as inconsistencies in and non-alignment of policies, plans
and programs; and
WHEREAS, in order to ensure effective coordination, planning and
allocation of scarce resources among the three subsectors of education
and training, PCER reiterates and adopts EDCOM’s recommendation to put
in place a National Coordinating Council for Education (NCCE).
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA, President of the Republic
of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do
hereby order:
Section 1. Creation and Composition of the Council. —
The National Coordinating Council for Education (NCCE) is hereby
created and attached to the Office of the President for administrative
purposes, to be composed of the following:
Secretary,
Department of Education, Culture & Sports
(DECS or DBE)
- Member
Chairman, Commission on Higher Education - Member
Director-General, Technical Education and Skills
Development
Authority
- Member
It shall be chaired by the members on a rotating basis for a term of
two (2) years each.
Sec. 2. Participation of Other Sectors. — As the
need arises, the Council may invite as resource persons the Secretaries
of NEDA, DBM, DOST and DOLE as well as the participation of
representatives from the education, business and other sectors, both
public and private and non-governmental organizations, which have
direct stakes in education to ensure broad-based consultations and
proper dissemination of information and advocacy.
Sec. 3. Mandates and Functions. — The Council
shall discharge its responsibilities in accordance with the following
specific mandates:
•
to serve as the regular forum for trans-subsectoral consultations on
cross-cutting policies and programs;
• to harmonize
goals and objectives for the entire education system and to dovetail
them to national development plans;
• to review
existing and proposed programs and projects for tighter inter-subsector
coordination;
• to set
priorities for the education system and recommend corresponding
financial requirements;
• to pursue
and monitor implementation of the reforms proposed by the Presidential
Commission on Educational Reform (PCER);
• to
establish, oversee and monitor the implementation of the National
Educational Evaluation and Testing System (NEETS) and its operations;
• to designate
and provide guidelines for Philippine representatives in international
and national conferences/meetings with cross-cutting themes or concerns
in education; and
• to convene a
biennial National Congress on Education for the purpose of assessing,
updating/upgrading and strengthening of the educational system and its
components.
Sec. 4. It shall be assisted by a small
high-powered Secretariat whose main responsibility is to ensure the
efficiency and effectiveness of the NCCE. It shall be composed of a
Director, a permanent staff of five (5) and others seconded to the
Council as needed from the three (3) member agencies.
Sec. 5. In the discharge of its functions and
responsibilities, the NCCE may commission highly-qualified
experts/specialists and/or education consultancy groups to provide
specified services.
Sec. 6. It shall adopt its own internal operating
rules and procedures and define the duties and responsibilities of the
Secretariat, its staffing pattern, and compensation schedule.
Sec. 7. The NCCE shall submit an annual
performance report to the President, as well as program and policy
recommendations affecting the entire education system.
Sec. 8. In no case whatsoever shall the NCCE
detract from the autonomy and independence of DECS, TESDA and CHED.
Sec. 9. Statistics for Educational Planning. — For
the purpose of carrying out the mandates of the NCCE, the National
Statistics Office (NSO) is hereby directed to strengthen its core or
basic unit responsible for the generation and analysis of education and
training statistics and to systematize its operational links with the
statistical units in the Department of Education, Culture and Sports,
Commission on Higher Education and Technical Education and Skills
Development Authority. The NCCE shall coordinate with the NSO in all
matters pertaining to the generation, analysis, utilization and
dissemination of all educational statistics and
information.
Sec. 10. Government agencies are hereby directed
to second and/or detail competent individuals to the NCCE as may be
requested.
Sec. 11. The Council is directed to convene the
first National Congress on the State of Philippine Education by 2001 in
order to, among others, monitor the fulfillment of all the policy and
program recommendations of both the EDCOM and the PCER.
Sec. 12. Initial Funding of the NCCE. — The sum of
fourteen million pesos is hereby appropriated from the President’s
Social Fund for the initial mobilization and first year of operation of
the NCCE. Thereafter, the sum of Ten Million Pesos (P10,000,000.00)
shall be included in the General Appropriations Act.
Sec. 13. Repealing Clause. — All executive
issuances inconsistent with this Executive Order are hereby repealed or
amended accordingly.
Sec. 14. Effectivity. — This Executive Order shall
take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 7th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, two thousand.
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