Dumaguete Bishop Julito Cortes has envisioned to adopt a modular learning program on secondary education for the poor to provide them better opportunities for improved living conditions.
Bishop Cortes disclosed that it is his dream to replicate the Open High School Program of the La Consolacion College (formerly the Sacred Heart Academy) in Bais City, Negros Oriental, in the different Catholic schools in the Diocese of Dumaguete.
The prelate said the OHSP is an avenue to reach out to the poor who have little or no access to quality education and this can be a concrete structure where schools can experience how it is to have preference for the poor.
The OHSP is an “alternative mode of formal secondary education program” which was first introduced at the La Consolacion College-Bais City about three years by its president, Sr. Carmelli Catan, OSA.
Run by the Bureau of the Secondary Education of the Department of Education, the OHSP provides an opportunity for elementary school graduates, high school drop-outs and successful examinees of the Philippine Education Placement Test to complete secondary education in a purely distance learning mode.
The program is available anytime and not dependent on the calendar of the regular school year.
Under the program, students are provided printed self-learning modules for their lessons and classroom activities once they start at their own time and at their own pacing, but must complete their higher education within a maximum period of six years. (PNA)
