Late enrollees for School Year 2023-2024 will nonetheless be allowed till the top of the month because the Department of Education (DepEd) gave the leeway in mild of the disruptions caused by the latest climate disturbances.
DepEd deputy spokesperson Assistant Secretary Francis Bringas stated this in a Viber message to reporters on Wednesday, expressing confidence that the company will nonetheless give you the option attain its 28.8 million enrollment goal for the present faculty yr.
“Yes we are on course naman. We will be looking at a final number considering the variance between Grade 12 who graduated and incoming Kindergarten, among others,” he stated.
The Education Department remains to be 3 million in need of its goal as of Wednesday, 9 a.m., as solely a complete of 25,890,617 college students in public colleges, non-public colleges, State Universities and Colleges (SUCs), and Local Universities and Colleges (LUCs) had been enrolled.
Data from DepEd’s Learner Information System (LIS) confirmed that Calabarzon has essentially the most variety of enrollees to this point at 3,821,034.
This was adopted by Central Luzon with 2,817,827, National Capital Region with 2,675,386, and Central Visayas with 1,999,476.
The Cordillera Administrative Region, in the meantime, logged the bottom variety of enrollees at 406,815.
Bringas stated that the enrollment numbers are nonetheless shifting as colleges proceed to replace their knowledge on the LIS.
“Once 100% of schools have reported, mag-close na [it will close] and we will have the official number for this school year,” he added.
He additionally stated that DepEd will implement child-find procedures to know the explanation why some college students will not be returning to highschool.
“Reason for not enrolling is not because they are displaced. The public schools do not refuse enrolment,” Bringas stated.
“Once LIS closes (after the first month), schools will employ child-find procedures to determine reasons for not returning to school. ALS will be the other alternative for them to continue if they are unable to continue formal schooling for some reasons,” he added.
In the earlier educational yr, there have been 28.4 million college students enrolled throughout the nation. — RSJ, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
