About 25,000 teaching and non-teaching personnel are expected to be displaced by the full implementation of the K to 12 Program next year, a party-list lawmaker said.
Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon of Kabataan, citing the report submitted by the government’s education cluster to the House Committee on Higher and Technical Education, said that 13,634 teaching personnel (2,794 permanent and 10,840 nonpermanent) and 11,456 nonteaching personnel (5,702 permanent and 5,754 nonpermanent) will lose their jobs come 2016 due to the “reduction in college enrollment.”
The government-education cluster includes the Department of Education, Commission on Higher Education, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority and the Department of Labor and Employment.
Ridon, a member of the House Committee on Higher and Technical Education, said that the report also indicated that the displacement of the 25,000 college personnel “may adversely affect the operational viability of various higher-education institutions.”
Jovee Marie dela Cruz