Advantages Of K-12 Education In The Philippines

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The new and approved education system in the Philippines, the K to 12 education system, a change to the usual kind of system that we have been using for many centuries already was approved by the government later last year. K to 12 is a new standard of education in the Philippines, wherein it covers kindergarten and 12 years of basic education (six years of primary education, four years of Junior High School, and two years of Senior High School) unlike to the old program, after you graduate four years in high school you could directly go to college and to your desired field of study but in the new program two years is added after the four years in junior high and that two years is the senior high. In senior high, a student is like a preparatory for college, because they’re trained to master their skill (e.g. entrepreneurship, employment etc.). The student could either go to college after or directly do work. If he or she wants to go to college he or she will only take major subjects and some of the minor subject for he or she had already took some on his or her senior high, or maybe the student want to go directly to work for he or she would receive some sort of certificate that proves that he or she finished high school or like a permit to find a job. The Philippines was one of the three countries in the world to use the old education system, partly it is maybe one of the reasons for this but the main purpose of this is to improve the education of the children in the