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Education stakeholders buck CHED proposal to cut GE units

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Education stakeholders buck CHED proposal to cut GE units A group of education stakeholders, including members of the academe, writers, and artists, has opposed the Commission on Higher Education’s (CHED) proposal to reduce general education (GE) units in college, warning that the move could weaken the country’s education system and threaten thousands of teaching jobs. In a petition shared by the ...
The conflict over the GE curriculum reflects a fundamental tension between institutional goals of efficiency and humanistic concerns of educational purpose. The discourse is structured around competing paradigms: the economic imperative to produce employable workers versus the philosophical objective of cultivating socially conscious citizens. The argument that curriculum cuts are justified by ‘curriculum redundancies’ or the need to be ‘market-driven’ reveals a pattern of systemic focus on meas...