Society and Education in The Philippines

SOCIETY 

The Society of the Philippines has always been described as a democracy with a dynamic and active civil society.

In the Philippines, the role of women is explained based on the context of Filipino culture, mindsets and standards. The Philippines is characterized to be a nation of women, who directly and indirectly are the family unit, haciendas, government agencies and businesses.

Generally they define themselves in the middle of a post-colonial male-dominated Christian society, Filipino women live in a culture that is focused on the community, with the family as the main unit of society. Compared to other parts of Southeast Asia, women in Philippine society have always enjoyed a greater share of legal equality. And in this framework of Philippine hierarchical structure, religious justifications, class differences, and living in a globally developing nation wherein Filipino women struggle for respect.

EDUCATION

The beginning of the second decade of this century has seen a great improvement in the education system of the Philippines. Education in the Philippines where was modeled by education systems, there were major changes DEPED administers all educational system along with equipment, recruitment of teachers. In this system was implemented by the program for K-12 education, which became mandatory if basing in four phases:

• 1-Creating the bases, deploy kindergarten 
• 2 Full-migration, promote the enactment of basic education by established series 1 to 4 and 7 to 10.
• 3- Migration complete, aims to implement the high school 11:12. 
• 4-Completing the Reform, conclude the implementation k-12. 

Admission in colleges may slow due to low entry years for the new system.