Bukidnon State University on K to 12:

Pride of the South

Yeho Natan II

           The Philippines is the Southeast Asian country that is still on the ten-year cycle of education in elementary and secondary. On the 21st Century, the domination of the unemployed Filipino citizens is raising fast. But this problem will be lessen through the implementation of the 12-year cycle program—the K to 12 with the cooperation with the local and the national government.

In its years of existence, Bukidnon State University (BukSU) has become a center for education and pursued a sustained approach to increasing demands from thousands of enrolled students among colleges that offer around 40 courses including graduate and undergraduate. This made the university a trademark of Bukidnon’s quality education across Mindanao and even across the Philippine Islands. On the other hand, the Philippine educational system was reframed due to the addition of two more years in high school-- senior high school and the mandated preschool. This K to 12 program aims to enhance the competency of the graduates in terms of the language proficiency and the skills of every student that is focused during the K 11 and K 12. This flagship agenda has become part of the DepED curricula since it was approved. Prior to its existence, the program was debated among the Filipino citizens because of its effect to the parents and on the student’s interest accordingly. Many aspects of society are being affected with this change of education system. Families will have a hard time providing their children’s needs because of the longer years but the government has provided us many public schools that they can go to and study.

Furthermore, the 1987 Philippine Constitution highlighted the responsibility of the government to structure realistic educational system that will help the Filipino citizens in their growing; the K to 12 program was slowly materializing. In line with the new educational program, BukSU is held positive in having students who will be experiencing 12 years of enhanced basic education curriculum before reaching college. Though this system, BSU will be molding students who have been already trained, students whose individual skills were enhanced and the language proficiency is excellent. It is an advantage to the university since the training in the college fields will be easier and the future employment of the graduates is already easy at large because almost all the large foreign countries had adapted this type of educational system. The fact that BukSU is highlighted as an institution that promotes quality education, Philippines can already sort it to the universities of competence and excellence. It is already clear evidence that BSU can compete with the changing demands of education sector of the Philippines. BukSU is a primer of harnessed graduates in science, humanity and philosophy and because of the K to 12 curriculum, it is a standout quotation that “BukSU: A Special Place for Teaching and Learning”.