The Department of Education (DepEd) is planning to recruit 10,000 public school teachers, and 5,000 non-teaching personnel under its proposed 2020 budget.
This is to hit the department’s goal to further improve the teacher-to-student ratio, enhance learning, and ease the workload of its personnel since the enrolment levels every year in public schools nationwide is increasing.
According to DepEd, In 2016, they lowered the teacher-to-student ratio to 1:35 for elementary and 1:43 for secondary schools to enable teachers to better respond to the varying learning needs of their students.
Education Secretary Leonor Briones said more than being part of the 10-point agenda, is their relentless commitment to enhancing personnel welfare, while at the same time improving the delivery of quality education.
Also based on their plan, DepEd is allocating P1.28 billion for the creation of 5,000 new non-teaching positions and P1.27 billion for the hiring of 10,000 teachers next year in order to finance the staffing procedures.
These new hires will be assigned to different schools and offices nationwide.
In 2020, DepEd’s Computerization Program (DCP) will receive P8.99 billion covering 4,300 e-classroom packages and 42,010 multimedia packages for schools. This will aid teachers in enhancing the delivery of learning in the classrooms.
This is a 105.4% increase from DCP’s P4.38-billion budget in 2019.
“We recognize the need to provide our teaching and non-teaching personnel with work conditions that will enable them to deliver quality basic education for all. Steadily, we’re ensuring that they are unburdened of ancillary tasks and equipped with the necessary tools and materials to develop lifelong Filipino learners,” Briones said.
DCP aims to provide technologies to all public schools in order to enhance the teaching-learning process. It also provides relevant information technology structure, networking facilities, and information systems to all levels of governance of the Department.
