A Review of the Philippine Qualifications Framework : Towards Improved Skills Recognition and Mobility
The Philippines increasingly emphasizes lifelong learning and skills mobility for labor productivity as an integral part of the country’s growth strategy. The Philippine Development Plan 2017-2022 presents a series of activities to improve labor pr...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/736031634112835815/A-Review-of-the-Philippine-Qualifications-Framework-Towards-Improved-Skills-Recognition-and-Mobility http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36528 |
| Summary: | The Philippines increasingly
emphasizes lifelong learning and skills mobility for labor
productivity as an integral part of the country’s growth
strategy. The Philippine Development Plan 2017-2022 presents
a series of activities to improve labor productivity through
human capital investment. Investment in this area is
critical given that the country’s growth has benefited from
a steady structural transformation shifting resources from
low- to high-productivity of remittances from Overseas
Filipino Workers (OFWs). Aside from improvements in basic
education requirements, an important milestone in the
country’s skills development came with the introduction of
the national qualifications system known as the Philippine
Qualifications Framework (PQF). To ensure that the PQF
remains responsive to the skills demand and needs of the
international and domestic labor markets and fully achieves
its mandate, the PQF Act requires regular reviews and
updates of the framework. This PQF review, the first of its
kind, aims to assess various aspects of the framework. The
remainder of this report consists of four sections. Section
2 provides a brief country background of the Philippines to
put the discussions into context. Section 3 presents
findings from the PQF review concerning the PQF’s design,
implementation, and utilization. Section 4 presents policy
recommendations and discussions, and Section 5 concludes. |
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