Salceda renews call for an improved education as Albay celebrates September Literacy Month Gov. Joey Sarte Salceda has renewed his call on stakeholders in education to continue pushing for programs that would improve the literacy rate in Albay as the province is celebrating the Literacy Month this September 2014. The Governor’s challenge is clear yet almost forceful: find ways to improve the instruction, think of new ideas out of those already learned and outline the needed reforms and actions to uplift literacy in the province. This he said even after noting from the 2013 record of the National Statistics Office (NSO) that the literacy rate in Bicol Region is 98.5%, a bit higher than the national rate of 97.5%. However, the record only showed simple literacy (or the ability to read and write), and not “functional literacy” or the ability to read, write, count and understand both or all. He urged schools to give attention to functional literacy. Since becoming governor of the province’s million population, allotment for education has always been the highest in Albay in recognition of the value of its educated human resource as having the highest potential to becoming economically productive. In his speech delivered in Filipino and read by Albay Poet Laureate and National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Commissioner Abdon M. Balde, Salceda bared that his administration focuses more on improving the instruction not only for students but also for workers or those already employed to become part of their continuous learning program. “Alam natin ang napakabilis na mga pagbabagong dala ng teknolohiya na dapat masundan ng lahat ng mamamayan upang makaagpang tayo sa ibang mauunlad na bansa,” he said. Salceda also pushed for the enhancement of computer literacy among the teachers which record from the Department of Education (DepEd) showed that only 14% of teachers are computer literate. “Kung ang mga titser na mismo ay hindi marunong sa computer, paano pa nila tuturuan ang mga mag-aaral,” he asked. This year’s provincial celebration of Literacy Month is capped with several activities such as read-a-thon contest and a literacy forum and an educational colloquium.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 10:32:29 +0000
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