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Duterte signs law strengthening quality of teacher education

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt=" A teacher interacts with her students attending their online class at the Ricardo P. Cruz Senior Elementary School in Taguig City on December 02, 2021. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News/file" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/news/04/29/20211202-face-to-face-classes-jc-054047830.jpg"/><figcaption>A teacher interacts with her students attending their online class at the Ricardo P. Cruz Senior Elementary School in Taguig City on December 02, 2021. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News/file</figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA⁠— President Rodrigo Duterte has approved a law that aims to improve the quality of teachers&#x27; education in the country, Malacañang said on Friday. </p><p>The President signed Republic Act No. 11713, which establishes a scholarship program for students who want to become educators. The law also enhanced the Teacher Education Council (TEC).</p><p>Under the law, government will boost quality education and training of teachers through the said scholarship. It also aims to improve teaching schools by making a competitive, responsive, collaborative roadmap for teacher education.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/22/20/group-seeks-better-teaching-schools-to-attract-high-achievers-to-education">Group seeks better teaching schools to attract high achievers to education</a></li></ul><p>The law stated that the TEC will lead teachers, school leaders across PH who are pursuing their graduate degree programs by &quot;providing a dynamic, modern, equitable education system.&quot;</p><p>It also mandates designation of at least 1 teacher education institution (TEI), or Commission on Higher Education-recognized schools offering teacher education degree programs, as Center of Excellence in Special Needs Education in Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao, Metro Manila, Metro Cebu, and Metro Davao. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/12/10/20/deped-making-efforts-to-improve-quality-of-education-training-of-teachers-official">DepEd making efforts to improve quality of education, training of teachers: official</a></li></ul><p>Non-profit group Philippine Business for Education (PBed) in 2020 urged government to make the teaching profession appealing to overachieving high school students, in a bid to improve the country&#x27;s teachers education. </p><p>The organization added that there was a need to increase the number of &quot;high-quality&quot; schools for teaching.</p><p>Based on PBEd data as of 2020, out of 1,572 TEIs in the country, only 74 were accredited as center of excellence (COE) and center of development (COD).</p><div><strong>— with a report from Arra Perez, ABS-CBN News</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=2017703" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div><div> </div>

The President signed Republic Act No. 11713, which establishes a scholarship program for students who want to become educators through the teacher education program. The law also enhanced the Teacher Education Council (TEC).