However, consequences are inevitable. Decreasing the number of school hours decease the amount of knowledge students could have gotten. This may result to a decrease in of quality education. .
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I. PHILIPPINE EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES.
A) Objectives.
The objectives of the Philippine educational system may be gathered from the Educational Act of 1982 , the Philippine Constitution and the Philippine Development Plan. According to the Philippine Development plan, the major education and manpower development objectives of the DECS are as follows:.
1) To improve the quality and increase the relevance of education and training.
2) To increase access of disadvantaged group in all educational areas.
3) To accelerate the development of middle and high level manpower toward economic recovery and sustainable growth, as well as to enhance their employability, productivity and self-reliance.
B) Strategies.
Toward the attainment of these objectives, the government has adopted specific strategies of which the major thrusts are the following:.
1) Improvement of the quality of the Philippine education.
2) Equitable access to education.
3) Full mobilization of education personnel with an increasingly commensurate compensation.
II. EXPENDITURES.
A) Government expenditures on education.
Education expenditure comes primarily from three sources. They are namely, the national government, local government units (LGUs) and the private sector (including households). Table 7 summarizes the relative contributions of these following sources during 1994 and 1997. It shows that in the aggregate, the Philippines spent around 97.3 billion pesos in education in 1994 and 174.6 billion pesos in 1997. On the average, the total education spending grew by 13.5 percent annually, in real terms between 1994 and 1997. As total education expenditure grew at a faster rate than GNP, it rose from 5.6 percent of GNP in 1994 to 6.9 percent in 1997.