Abstract
Education policy-makers and stakeholders in the Asia Pacific region appear to agree on the need to give greater attention to graduate education. The shared concern about graduate education reflected, perhaps, simply a natural progression.
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The Education for All (EFA) movement is a global initiative spearheaded by The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); United Nations Children’s Emergency Relief Fund (UNICEF), and World Bank participants to provide all children access to quality basic education. In 2000, the international bodies convened to affirm their dedication to accomplishing EFA by the year 2015. However, 2015 has arrived, and the community still has to do a lot to achieve the EFA six goals, to wit:
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Goal 1: Expand early childhood care and education
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Goal 2: Provide free and compulsory primary EFA
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Goal 3: Promote learning and life skills for young people and adults
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Goal 4: Increase adult literacy
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Goal 5: Achieve gender parity
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Goal 6: Improve the quality of education.
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In preparing for the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community in 2015, CHED formed two ad hoc bodies in 2013, the Task Force on Internationalization and the Task Force on Graduate Education (TFGRE). The TFGRE commissioned Ateneo de Manila University to do a survey of the field and submitted its report to CHED in November 2013.
Because of incomplete or anomalous data, the survey could only cover 22 % of the master’s programs (3713) and 30 % of the doctoral programs (999).
The Schoolyear 2011–2012 provided the data for the enrollment and graduation. The analysis covers 76 % of HEIs that offer master’s programs and 92 % of HEIs that offer doctoral programs.
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de Jesus, E.C. (2016). Graduate Education in Asia Pacific Higher Education: Changing Roles and Purposes. In: Neubauer, D., Buasuwan, P. (eds) Asia Pacific Graduate Education. International and Development Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54783-5_3
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