Marcos confident Sara Duterte will reform education system

President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. expressed confidence Thursday that Vice President Sara Duterte will be able to reform the education system in order to prepare Filipino students for more and better jobs.

"Once we had an education system that prepared coming generations for more and better jobs. There is hope for a comeback. Vice President and soon-to-be Secretary of Education Sara Duterte-Carpio will fit that mission to achieve," Marcos said during his inaugural address at the National Museum of Fine Arts.

He said there should be an improvement in the education materials of students in the country for them to be prepared for employment.

"What we teach in our schools, the materials used must be rethought. I am not talking about history. I am talking about the basics, the sciences. Sharpening theoretical aptitude and imparting vocational skills," he said.

Marcos also vowed to give equal emphasis to the country's national language.

"Our teachers from elementary are heroes fighting ignorance with poor paper weapons. We are condemning the future of our race to menial occupations abroad, then they are exploited by traffickers," he said.

Confident to have Ople in Cabinet

Marcos also vowed to give overseas Filipino workers all the advantages under his administration "for them to survive and to thrive."

"Our nurses are the best in the world. They equated themselves with the highest distinction abroad, having suffered even the highest casualties... They are out there because we cannot pay them for the same risk and workload that we have back here," he said.

Marcos said he is confident that former Labor Undersecretary Susan “Toots” Ople will fulfil her task as secretary of the Department of Migrant Workers.

"There will be changes starting tomorrow. I am confident because I have an Ople in my Cabinet," he said in his speech.

Ople, an advocate of overseas Filipino workers (OFW), confirmed last month that she was offered the post under the Marcos administration. —AOL/RSJ, GMA News