Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
I am not in a position to quibble with Nigel's statement regarding whether or not the Philippines ranks 3rd among the world's English-speaking nations. What I would say, however, is that my wife taught in a Government High School for twenty-two years and assures me that a Department of Education memorandum strictly imposes a condition whereby the English language is the medium of instruction in ALL curricular subjects. Indeed, more than a year ago -with the job market in mind - the Dep.Ed. undertook a random inspection of school campuses nationwide in order to monitor the students' level of competence in speaking English.
The problem I encountered was that the "English" that's being taught is either grammatically flawed or that the students only need to appear to understand and the teachers are never challenged ,to do so would jeopardise the child at least thats a Cebu perspective