Unexpected Effect
Although new school year has started, the college that I am working for is still accepting new enrollees. There is a reason why we have to extend the deadline of enrollment. This year, we only have one fourth of the enrollees compared to last year. I wondered why. The number of students in my college had been increasing past 5 years in a row, and I was thinking that we, teachers deserve to say it is because of the quality of education. We didn’t provide good education last year? Or, our marketing officer did something wrong? I was thinking WHY.
And in this morning, I picked up one of the Philippine newspapers and I found it. The newspaper says “Inflation soars to 9.6%”in the front page.” I presumed that is the reason. So, I texted one of my friend who is teaching at another college and asked her if the number of enrollees in her school decreased or not. She responded to me, “only 50% compared to last year.”
It’s not only our college with few students enrolled in this semester but also other private schools. In short, they shifted to public schools or, probably, some of them cannot afford to enroll even in public schools. Parents need to buy rice before they send their children to school. And enrollment fee for a college is also rising.
I never expected that inflation would influence education so directly. Our wages also have to be raised corresponding to the increase of commodity prices. But, how can it be? Private schools do not have money, too. It’s a vicious cycle.
< ![CDATA[if the price of rice goes up everybody suffers right down to education . :cry: .It is a shame that has to happen .. Phil R.]]>
< ![CDATA[Its a fact of life,food comes before anything else.Regards Chas.]]>
< ![CDATA[Hi Ichi. Timely info.
Hard times are indeed here.
It's even worse that education is put aside for the riightfully placed priority of primal survival.
More like this...Cheers!]]>
< ![CDATA[Ichi,
Yes, I agree, food comes first. On a related note, I wonder how much less students learn when they come to school hungry?
Hope to meet up with you in July or August. Take care,
Kevin]]>
< ![CDATA[Hi Ichi,I recently read an article where parents in Zamboanga had to stop sending children to school as they need the money for rice.Others had moved children from private schools and sending them to govt schools instead.I think this is probably happening all over Phils.However,more govt rice has been sent to Mindanao,and world price of rice fell 20% last week.Hopefully things will improve soon for schools.Regards Chas.]]>
< ![CDATA[this is sad. stuff like these never go into the official reports.
nice find, ichi.]]>
< ![CDATA[Hi ichi, great and important article. Chas, as a saying goes: your words in God's ears". As my family told me: there is cheaper rice (imported from Thailand) available in the market here in Davao; 25 Pesos per kilo, but you have to bear maybe a hundred or more people falling in line... :roll:]]>
< ![CDATA[and you really had to mention the marketing officer, hahaha...
good point! :mrgreen:]]>
< ![CDATA[sensei! :???:
t'was a really good entry.
truth is, the government has to do something about this. they should prioritize education. it's always painful to think that there are a lot of Filipino kids out there who wanted to go to school. and shame to those parents who blamed the economy for not giving their kids a proper education.]]>