Groups slam bid for ‘flexible learning’ as new norm
Manila Bulletin.
National Union of Students of the Philippines National President Jandeil Roperos said such a policy “will exacerbate the effects on students financially, mentally and emotionally, and jeopardise the quality education that is their right … If we look at it another way, flexible learning has also paved the way for corporations to capitalise on the inaccessibility of needed technology – thus putting a financial burden on parents and students – which is harder given the rampant lay-offs and rising prices of goods and services.”
In a webinar last week, CHED Chairman J Prospero De Vera III said: “From now on, flexible learning will be the norm. There is no going back to the traditional, full-packed face-to-face classrooms.”
A students group on Thursday, May 27, has accused the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) of being "deaf" to education woes after it defended its flexible learning policy for the tertiary level.
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Who’s confused? | Students, teachers up in arms over government’s ‘no face-to-face classes’ scenario
Without a proper gadget to make his computer programming assignments, a Filipino student taking online classes resort to writing his codes on paper. He submits this to his teacher, who then runs it for him to see if the codes he wrote were right. (Courtesy of interviewee)
“It is the youth that has been victimized from this failed flexible learning. Yet, they are being called ‘confused’ for the struggles they have to contend with.”
(JANSEN ROMERO / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
In a statement, National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) National President Jandeil Roperos maintained that CHED “should be at the forefront of asserting the gradual and safe resumption of classes.”
“This is what we have expressed from the start: even if flexible learning is a mix-and-match of online and offline measures, the tendency is to resort to online means because of the limitations of modules and other printed materials as well as the need to consult professors or classmates through online platforms,” Roperos said.
“The complaints of students, faculty, staff, and families on the current set-up of learning is not a result of external influences but from their own lived experiences of the grave shortcomings of flexible learning,” she added.
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