CONNIE O.

SAUNAR

ILLUSTRATION OF THE EVOLUTION

OF ALS IN THE COUNTRY
mostly concentrated in instructions in the livelihood skills training basic reading and

EO NO. 117 OF 1987

NON FORMAL
BUREAU OF ALS NFE FORMALIZED BUREAU OF NONFORMAL EFA 1990
EDUCATION EDUCATION (BNFE)

This was mostly From Nonformal . In 1977, the Spells out the Iintroduced a new
concentrated in Education, It became THE re-assimilation of the approach to learning
instructions in the Nonformal Education
reorganization of that focused on
BUREAU OF ALS (BALS)
livelihood skills training (NFE) in the education the ministry of measurable learning
basic reading and writing
1987 Philippine bureaucracy was again achievement, rather than The Philippines
incorporated in the Education Culture
module. Constitution. formalized mere class attendance or Nonformal Education
and Sports participation.
Project

The 2006 Philippine EFA The Bureau of Alternative “GOVERNANCE OF

The EFA 2015 National Action Plan Learning System (BALS) BASIC EDUCATION
SEPTEMBER 2004 ACT OF 2001.”
Established the It was designed Renaming the Bureau RA 9155 states that the goal
Implemented from
of basic education is to
crucial role of with the end goal of Nonformal 1995-2000 based on a
provide both “youth and adult
BALS as steward in Education to Bureau rationale stating that
of achieving learners with the skills,
the still developing of Alternative knowledge, and values they there is a link between
functional literacy Learning System need to become caring, self-
discourse on ALS. reliant, productive, and
illiteracy and poverty
for everyone. patriotic citizens.”