MANILA, Philippines — The Nationwide Academy of Sports activities (NAS) has been urged by lawmakers to expedite the creation of a curriculum for Grades 9, 10, and for the Senior Excessive ranges, as the tutorial establishment solely provides Grades 7 and eight as of now.
Through the listening to of the Home of Representatives Committee on fundamental schooling and tradition on Tuesday, panel chairperson and Pasig Rep. Roman Romulo requested NAS Government Director Josephine Pleasure Reyes relating to the standing of the curriculum that might be submitted for the Division of Schooling (DepEd), for implementation in colleges exterior of the NAS campus on the New Clark Metropolis.
In response, Reyes mentioned that they’ve submitted to DepEd the curriculum for Grades 7 and eight — or beforehand referred to as first-year and second-year excessive colleges — however they’re nonetheless crafting the curriculum for Grades 9 to 12.
“For now Mr. Chair, it’s not been performed but, however we’re getting ready the curriculum — we’re but to arrange Grade 9, so we’re nonetheless in progress of crafting and designing our Grade 9 curriculum. It has not been but accomplished as much as Grade 12,” Reyes mentioned.
“So what’s the explanation for delay? Since you would haven’t any issues with the tutorial observe as a result of DepEd ought to be a part of your Board, and DepEd ought to be capable of contribute with ease on the tutorial observe, so the delay is on the a part of the sports activities coaching?” Romulo requested, in a mixture of Filipino and English.
Reyes answered by saying that they’ve been in session with DepEd, including that the curriculum for Grades 7 and eight has been submitted to the division for overview.
Romulo, then again, highlighted that the curriculum is vital not just for NAS, but additionally for the nation’s total schooling system as it could be used as a foundation for college students who need to get into the sports activities observe for his or her Senior Excessive research. The NAS official in the meantime responded that they’d be capable of end the curriculum in a 12 months.
“Primarily based by yourself report, you talked about to us that you’re prepared, that your seven areas of sports activities are prepared for coaching. With DepEd being with you, so what’s the delay, why can’t you progress simply to Grades 9 and 10 curriculum and 11 and 12?” Romulo requested.
“Really, we’re short-staffed on the NAS; the time that we have been crafting the Grade 7 and eight, really we’re doing it on a yearly foundation now, however we hope that we’ll be capable of end even the senior highschool by subsequent 12 months, that’s our goal Mr. Chair,” Reyes mentioned.
“So at the least medyo buo na (it’s virtually full) as a result of once more po no, I feel it’s laudable what you’ve got performed through the top of the pandemic […] however once more the aim of the regulation was not merely for us to determine one college, or develop student-athletes within the New Clark Metropolis, we need to develop our student-athletes all through the Philippines,” Romulo answered again.
However Alliance of Involved Academics party-list Rep. France Castro famous that the one-year timetable is likely to be too lengthy, particularly if the federal government needs to speed up the applying of a sports activities observe within the Senior Excessive system.
She additionally seconded Romulo’s views that the regulation — Republic Act No. 11470, which established the Nationwide Sports activities Academy — was crafted not just for the NAS on the New Clark Metropolis however for the entire nation’s profit.
“‘Yong one 12 months timeframe na sinasabi to develop the curriculum for the opposite years, mukhang medyo matagal particularly now na talagang gusto na natin talagang ma-full blast itong curriculum natin for the sports activities observe,” Castro mentioned.
(The one 12 months timeframe allotted to develop the curriculum for the opposite years appears fairly lengthy, particularly now that we need to function the curriculum for the sports activities observe at a full blast.)
“I feel the response that we’re anticipating from NAS is that they’ve their pointers for the New Clark Metropolis campus, however that also they are trying in direction of the sports activities observe for the Okay to 12 system, the place anybody who needs to enroll within the Okay to 12 ought to be allowed entry, they shouldn’t be hand-picked, that’s the reason in search of student-athletes ought to be mass-based,” Romulo added.
Final March 2020, the Home permitted on third studying a invoice designed to create the NAS. It was signed by former president Rodrigo Duterte in June 2020, however implementation encountered delays as a result of authorities specializing in the COVID-19 pandemic response.
The seek for student-athletes began in 2021, opening its inaugural batch that 12 months.
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