EDUCATION
The present system of social services delivery in the city is relatively well established considering the prominence as the Center of Education in the North.
Summary of enrollment by level – The total enrollees for the city in the school year 2004-2005 were 136,393 students indicating a 2.82 percent increase. Of this total 38.8 percent were enrolled in the public school.
Performance indicators: public elementary & secondary level – Participation rates from the elementary level posted a negative growth of 5.24 percent because they prefer to study in their respective provinces rather in Baguio although they were born here. On the other hand, participation rate for the secondary level slightly increased by 0.26 percent.
Teacher-public/classes ratio – Baguio City public elementary and secondary schools are well provided with both classrooms and teachers, as indicated by its teacher-pupil and teacher-classes ratios of 1:40 and 1:44 for the elementary level and 1:32 and 1:62 for the secondary level for school year 2003-2004.
Total enrollment by major courses – There was 5.49 percent decline/increase in tertiary enrollment during the period. Most of the enrollees are Medical and Allied where 38.95 percent enrolled, followed by Business Administration and Related with 13.34 percent. Trade, Craft and Industrial had the least with 0.008 percent.
Number of graduates by courses – Of the 65,914 enrollees in the city for academic year 2003-2004, only 8,871 students or 13.46 percent finished their chosen courses. Majority or 23.41 percent finish Medical and Allied courses; this is mainly due to the good chances of employment abroad. This also attests that local graduates are highly preferred and thus competitive in the labor market.
Non-formal education sector performance – The number of technical-vocational graduates which include school-based program (formal, non-degree and short term courses) posted a two digit decrease of 36.76 and 69.97 percent. However, community-based training program increased by 374.94 percent over the previous year. On the other hand, there were 15 participating companies and 417 graduates for entrepreneur based program.
For the number of persons assessed and certified, a total of 829 or 80.61 percent were assessed, out of which 474 or 132.35 percent were certified showing an increase over the previous year.
For walk-in clients, out of 16 who submitted themselves for assessing, 4 were certified which is down by 69.81 and 87.1 percent respectively.
In the conduct of entrepreneurship development training, 161 have successfully finished or 906.25 percent over the previous year.
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