PNoy signs law on public ‘open high school system’

President Benigno Aquino III has signed a law establishing an open high school system in the Philippines, which will allow public secondary school students to learn at their preferred place, time, and pace.

Aquino approved Republic Act (R.A.) 10665 or the “Open High School System Act" last July 9. The new law aims to “provide access to secondary education in the country through the open learning modality.”

The law mandates the Department of Education (DepEd) to establish in every division an open learning center in an authorized secondary school, which will be called the “mother high school.”

Teachers in the mother high school will be tapped to implement the open high school program. The open high school system shall adopt the K-to-12 enhanced basic education curriculum.

Additional community advisers—or resource persons in industrial fields such as farming, handicraft makers, and auto-mechanics—will also be hired by local government units to guide open high school students.

An open high school system unit shall also be formed under the DepEd to monitor the implementation of the new law. -NB, GMA News