REX Education and the Private Education Assistance Committee (PEAC) have launched the PEAC–REX Edukampyon Iskolar Para Sa Kinabukasan, a scholarship program that aims to champion, strengthen, and advance teacher education by encouraging the best and brightest learners to pursue the teaching profession.
According to the 2018 OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) results, Filipino students ranked the lowest among 79 countries in mathematics, science, and reading, with over 80 percent not reaching the minimum level of proficiency in reading.
In a 2019 research conducted by the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMMS), scores of Filipino students decreased by 61 points in mathematics and by 83 points in science from 2003 to 2019.
The Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics (SEA-PLM) also found that in 2019, at least 83 percent of Grade 5 students scored below reading and mathematics standards expected for the end of primary schooling.
The Edukampyon Iskolar Para Sa Kinabukasan scholarship program aims to rally every Filipino to champion education so that every learner is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, challenged, and values-oriented.
By encouraging the best and the brightest to pursue the teaching profession, the program seeks to invest in Filipino learners and in the future of Philippine education.
“Teaching is a profession that has the power and influence to inspire the grooming of the greatest artists, doctors, and innovators. So, it is essential as Edukampyons to look into how we can advance and strengthen the quality of teachers and instructors from basic education to the tertiary level,” said Don Timothy Buhain, chief executive officer of REX Education.
“We seek for the best and the brightest to work with us, commit to the profession, and start creating a rippled effect as we enhance teachers’ quality today. This small act that we are doing in the present can have a great impact on all of our futures,” Buhain added.