No freshmen in 32 UP Diliman courses – report

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No freshmen in 32 UP Diliman courses – report
These courses will continue, according to an official from the University of the Philippines' Diliman campus

 

MANILA, Philippines – At least 32 courses at the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman have no freshman students after the full implementation of K to 12’s senior high school program.

Citing data from UP Diliman’s Office of the University Registrar, UP student publication Philippine Collegian said the following courses have no first year students for the first semester of academic year 2016-2017:

College of Arts and Letters

  • BA Araling Pilipino
  • BA English Studies
  • BA English Studies (Literature)
  • BA Malikhaing Pagsulat sa Filipino

College of Fine Arts

  • Bachelor of Fine Arts (Art Education)
  • Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpting)

College of Home Economics

  • BS Hotel, Restaurant, and Institution Management

College of Music

  • Bachelor of Music
  • Bachelor of Music (Composition)
  • Bachelor of Music (Dance)
  • Bachelor of Music (Piano)
  • Bachelor of Music (Musicology)
  • Bachelor of Music (Voice)
  • Certificate in Music (String)
  • Certificate in Music (Voice
  • Certificate in Music (Winds & Percussion)
  • Diploma in Creative and Performing Musical Arts (Composition)

UP College of Education

  • Bachelor of Elementary Education (Art Education)
  • Bachelor of Elementary Education (Communication Arts- English)
  • Bachelor of Elementary Education (Mathematics)
  • Bachelor of Elementary Education (Science and Health)
  • Bachelor of Elementary Education (Special Education)
  • Bachelor of Elementary Education (Teaching in the Early Grades)
  • Bachelor of Secondary Education (Art Education)
  • Bachelor of Secondary Education (Biology)
  • Bachelor of Secondary Education (Communication Arts- English)
  • Bachelor of Secondary Education (Chemistry)
  • Bachelor of Secondary Education (Mathematics)
  • Bachelor of Secondary Education (Physics)
  • Bachelor of Secondary Education (Special Education)
  • Bachelor of Secondary Education (Social Studies)

College of Engineering

  • BS Mining Engineering

Meanwhile, BA English Literature, Bachelor of Physical Education, and BS Applied Physics recorded less than 10 freshman enrollees.

The same report said only 807 freshmen enrolled in the Diliman campus this school year – a huge drop from the 4,305 enrollees in 2015.

Higher education institutions already expected the drop in enrollment – an effect of the nationwide rollout of Grade 11 under the Department of Education’s senior high school program last June. 

The drop in enrollment will last until school year 2021-2022, when things are expected to normalize.

For UP, they knew as early as the UP College Admission Test (UPCAT) in 2015, when only less than 10,000 aspirants took the test compared to the 87,000 test takers in 2014.

From the 10,000 only 1,558 takers passed the exam. In previous years, UPCAT passers actually ranged between 12,000 and 13,000.

The 32 UP Diliman courses without first year students will continue, the Philippine Collegian quoted Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Benito Pacheco as saying.

He added that the UP administration is also encouraging affected teaching and non-teaching staff to pursue graduate degrees in the university or even abroad. This way, they won’t have to leave UP.

But the Philippine Collegian reported that despite the drop in freshman enrollment, long lines still marred the registration and enlistment of students at UP Diliman.

“Students are still pitted against each other and are made to plead to professors just to have slots in classes,” the student publication quoted Student Regent Raoul Manuel as saying.

He added: “In a system that does not uphold the academic rights of both students and faculty members alike and in a system that crowns endurance of burdensome fees and bureaucratic processes, we have no other option but to rise and be part of the struggle for a nationalist, scientific and mass-oriented education.” – Rappler.com

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