SHOW OF APPRECIATION Beginning Faculty Yr 2025 to 2026, public college lecturers within the fundamental training stage will get the next instructing allowance. —Inquirer file photograph
MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signed into regulation on Monday a measure that will improve the “chalk allowance” given to public college lecturers in a bid to ease the burden of the bills they incur of their day-to-day instructing actions.
The Kabalikat sa Pagtuturo Act raises the yearly instructing provides allowance for every of the greater than 930,000 public college lecturers from P5,000 to P10,000.
“Academics educate as a result of they really feel they’ve to show they usually need to educate and that’s why we should give them the assist in order that they’re allowed to do exactly that [and] the Kabalikat sa Pagtuturo Act comes as a welcome assist to the development of the ‘Matatag’ Agenda,” Marcos mentioned in his speech on the signing.
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In line with him, taking care of the welfare of lecturers is the fourth element of the “Matatag” agenda of the Division of Training (DepEd), which is primarily geared toward addressing the “challenges” confronted by fundamental training in public faculties nationwide.
The signing ceremony held at Malacañang was attended by nation’s high officers led by Senate President Francis Escudero, Speaker Martin Romuadez, different lawmakers and members of the Cupboard.
Noticeably absent, nevertheless, was Vice President and Training Secretary Sara Duterte who has not been on good phrases these days with first girl Liza Araneta-Marcos.
Monumental distinction
In a press release, the DepEd mentioned the regulation would cowl lecturers within the fundamental training stage. This college 12 months, the instructing allowance can be P5,000, with the quantity to be doubled in succeeding years. The allowance wouldn’t be subjected to earnings tax, it added.
“And whereas it might sound inconsequential to those that are already used to having a gentle provide of fundamental supplies for work, this quantity makes an unlimited distinction for our beloved lecturers and for the scholars,” Marcos mentioned.
He lamented how lecturers, already usually saddled with monetary difficulties, nonetheless have to make use of their very own cash for college supplies which, based on him, function one other distraction from their instructing duties.
“For many years, they’ve willingly taken on the burden of getting to spend their very own cash on classroom provides to assist them in instructing. They embrace this wholeheartedly as their accountability, as a part of their responsibility as lecturers, as a part of their vocation,” the President mentioned.
Gesture of gratitude
The federal government and society are chargeable for caring for lecturers, who’re the present-day unsung heroes, he added.
“They toil and burn the midnight oil. They educate our youngsters not for cash nor for status. They serve our nation every day by instructing our youngsters the essential foundations to make them accountable and productive residents,” Marcos mentioned.
In a separate assertion, Sen. Sonny Angara, one of many invoice’s authors, expressed optimism that the brand new regulation would “end in fewer situations when lecturers must make out-of-pocket bills within the efficiency of their duties.”
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“Our overworked and underpaid educators ought to all the time be supported and initiatives similar to these will go a good distance in exhibiting our appreciation of what they do for our youngsters’s improvement,” he mentioned.
