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Describe the Philippine Education and Training system

The Philippine education system covers both formal and non-formal education.
Formal education is a progression of academic schooling from elementary (grade
school) to secondary (high school) and tertiary levels (TVET and higher education). By
law, education is compulsory for thirteen years (kindergarten and grades 1–12) and is
grouped into three levels: elementary school (kindergarten–grade 6), junior high
school (grades 7–10), and senior high school (grades 11–12). Before K to 12,
the Philippines had been one of only three remaining countries in the world–the other
two being Djibouti and Angola–to have a 10-year basic education cycle. Before World
War II, the Philippines had an 11-year basic education cycle: grades 1 to 7 for
elementary, and 4 years of high school. Unlike the
previous education system, K to 12 offers more opportunities for employment and
entrepreneurship. Many schools in the Philippines are slowly implementing this.
Graduates of the new system can instantly get a job after they receive their certificates
and passing competency-based assessments. The overarching short-term and long-
term objective of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in
the Philippines is to ensure national development through accelerated human capital
development by providing lifelong learning opportunities for all. Districts that are
pursuing competency-based systems share a belief that the current purpose of K-
12 education is to facilitate a process through which all students graduate high school
with the academic and lifelong learning skills to be leaders in their communities, and
agents of their own success