President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is having a hard time choosing a new education secretary to replace Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio.
“Nahihirapan ako pumili dahil napakakumplikado ng trabaho ng DepEd,” Marcos Jr. said in a media interview after the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas and National Unity Party Alliance signing ceremony in Makati City.
The President said he’s looking for an educator who can help both the teachers and students.
“Ang lagi naman natin tiningnan ang mga test score natin. We have to bring up the test scores. You all know that. So, you need an educator who understands how to help the students, how to help the teachers, number one,” he told reporters.
The Philippines ranked second lowest in the creative thinking test, with a mean score of 14.2, the recently-released results of the Programme for International Student Assessment test showed.
Fifteen-year-old Filipino students were given a one-hour test on creative thinking items organized into four categories: written expression, visual expression, social problem solving, and scientific problem solving.
Countries that scores highest are Singapore (41), Korea (38), Canada (38), Australia (37) and New Zealand (36).
Last month, Duterte-Carpio resigned as DepEd Secretary and co-vice chairperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict without a reason.IMT
