School enrolment in the Philippines drops more than 25%

Grade school teachers of Geronimo Santiago elementary school in Manila start printing self-learning modules that will be used by their students at home, along with blended and online learning as face to face classes are still prohibited due to the Covid-19 pandemic. - PDI/ANN

MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN): Enrolment in kindergarten up to senior high school for the school year 2020-2021 dropped more than 25 per cent from a year ago, according to figures from the Department of Education (DepEd).

Private schools registered the biggest decline as more than 300,000 of their students had transferred to public schools this year as the Covid-19 pandemic was ravaging the country’s economy, the DepEd data also showed.