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Filipino and English are the official languages of the Philippines. The official languages were used as the main modes of instruction in schools, allowing mother tongues as auxiliary languages of instruction. [14] The Philippine Department of Education (DepEd) has put forth initiatives in using mother tongues as modes of instructions over the ...
Before the adoption of the Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) system in 2012, a bilingual policy was used, wherein the medium of instruction was the Filipino language for Filipino, Araling Panlipunan, Edukasyong Pangkatawan, Kalusugan at Musika; English language was used for English, Science and Technology, Home Economics, and ...
The commission found that in the 24 years since the U.S. education system had been established, 530,000 Filipinos had completed elementary school, 160,000 intermediate school, and 15,500 high school. The Commission declared that although Filipino students were on the same level as their American counterparts in subjects like Math or Science ...
In the Philippines, English is the primary medium of instruction from preschool to university, except in the Philippine history and Filipino language subjects, in which Filipino is used. [15] Recently, regional languages have been introduced as the medium of instruction in public schools for grades K–3 as part of the Department of Education ...
The Thomasites arrived in the Philippines on August 21, [3] 1901, to establish a new public school system, to teach basic education, and to train Filipino teachers, with English as the medium of instruction.
A highly centralized public school system was installed in 1901, using English as the medium of instruction. This created a heavy shortage of teachers, and the Philippine Commission authorized the secretary of public instruction to bring to the Philippines 600 teachers from the U.S.—the so-called Thomasites.
The retained high ethnolinguistic diversity of the new colony was due to a low penetration of Spanish under Spain's rule. Spanish was limited to a medium of instruction for the landed elites and gentry. By the end of Spanish colonization and the Philippine–American War in 1903, only 10% of the colonial population could speak Spanish.
Jose Vasquez Aguilar (March 23, 1900 – January 31, 1980) is the first Filipino who received the Ramon Magsaysay Award (considered as Nobel Prize of Asia) (also the first awardee of the said award for Government Service). He is also a recipient in the government service category of the said award which he shared with Chintaman Deshmukh in 1959.