Press Release
March 24, 2007

ANGARA RAPS DEPED MISINTERPRETATION OF TEST

LIBMANAN, Camarines Sur: Sen. Edgardo Angara rapped yesterday the Department of Educations misinterpretation of the results of the recently concluded National Career Assessment Examination (NCAE).

The DepEds statement that 700,000 of the 1.4-million examinees were not fit to take a college degree is very demeaning to the examinees and their parents, he said at a rally here where he urged the youth to take up vocational and technical courses.

Angara contended that rather than demean the capabilities of the 700,000 high school graduates, DepEd should have used the NCAE results to encourage the youth to take up technical and vocational courses.

We should not force high school graduates to go to college. In fact, there is greater job opportunity for them if they will take up technical or vocational courses, he said.

Angara , author of the law that created the Technical Education and Skills Development Administration, said that historically, only about 20 percent of high school graduates have the resources and inclination to proceed to college.

We should not worry at all if more than one-half of the high school graduates cant go to college. After all, not all really want to go to college, he stressed.

He said that the countrys economy, as well as the rest of the world, needs more carpenters, electricians, welders, caregivers, maintenance men, computer technicians, among others.

Angara , the former president of the University of the Philippines , has also been been pushing for the greater educational emphasis on science, technology and engineering. He authored a joint resolution recently passed by the 13th Congress seeking to create a joint commission to review and assess the state of competitiveness of science, technology and engineering research and development (COMSTE) in the country.

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