After all, the changes brought by the new curriculum are certainly dramatic and numerous. Post-reform: With the enactment of the K-12 reforms, secondary education was extended from four to six years and divided into two levels: four years of Junior High School (JHS) and two years of Senior High School (SHS), giving the basic education cycle a structure of K+6+4+2. TESDA now administers the post secondary, middle-level manpower training and development while CHED is responsible for higher education. All six years of secondary education are compulsory and free of charge at public schools. The Philippines' Department of Education undertook a curriculum reform for basic education with the goal of improving student learning to meet the more complex demands of Philippine society amidst globalization. The changes would cost more than a hundred billion pesos. The Philippine Basic Education Curriculum (BEC) 5. The new DepEd K+12 curriculum in the Philippines could easily high scores on innovation. This is expected since the reforms are not based on depth, length, breadth, justice, diversity, resourcefulness and conservation. Explain the rationale for restructuring the basic education curriculum. DepEd's K to 12 sadly misses the most important ingredient in basic education: its teachers. Education reform must come from teachers. Discuss the forerunners of the present basic education curriculum. • Children were provided more vocational training and less academics (3 Rs) by their parents and in the houses of tribal tutors. Until now, critics continue to insist that the country is not yet prepared for this transition. Bases of Curriculum Reforms in the Philippines The education reform in the Philippines lacks all of the above characteristics of a good education system, unfortunately. Yet, the changes are much more likely not to benefit basic education in the Philippines at all. Development of Philippine Education Pre-‐Spanish Times • informal, unstructured, and devoid of methods. Analyze the structure of the BEC. Define what a curriculum is and its role in Philippine basic education. Explain the bases of the Philippine basic education curriculum. It has been four years since the Philippines shifted to a new educational system. But this reform program, which added two more years to the old basic education system, has since met with so much public opposition. present-day education in the Philippines refocused the DepEd’s (RA 9155) mandate to basic education which covers elementary, secondary and non-formal education.