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The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has said that they are not going to pilot the implementation of the proposal to reduce college general education units this school year, but eyeing it on 2028.
CHED Chairperson Shirly Agrupis has said that the delay in implementation will provide them time to analyze and study the different manifestations from several groups and stakeholders.
That is because the proposal have met with negative response from several groups, which include the Philippine Political Science Association (PPSA), the Philippine Sociological Society (PSS), and the Division of Humanities of the University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV).
“We just had an inter-agency meeting… to really present the collected manifestations from the different sectors and we came to a decision that there will be no GE implementation across all programs this school year,” Agrupis said.
The CHED head has emphasized they will review the feedback gathered, and noted that even the teacher education sector will not see a trial run of the system when it will it be implemented by 2028.
“This is to give us time, especially the technical panel and the Department of Education, to analyze and study well the different manifestations because we understand where they are coming from and even in the teacher education,” she said.
She added referring to teacher education sector, “There will be no pilot testing of this reframed curriculum. The target of this will be 2028.”
Under the proposal, they plan to trim the current 36 GenEd units to 18, such as potentially merging Readings in Philippine History with The Life, Works and Writings of Jose Rizal.
Likewise, subjects such as ethics is proposed to be taught across different subjects.
