Angara seeks collaboration for 2025 PISA performance

Education Secretary Sonny Angara has urged education stakeholders to collaborate with the government to enhance the performance of Filipino students in the upcoming Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in March 2025.

This initiative follows the 2022 PISA results, which showed Filipino students ranking poorly among participating countries.

The 2022 PISA results indicated that Filipino 15-year-old students lagged behind their international counterparts in mathematics, science, and reading, with rankings of sixth to last in reading and mathematics, and third to last in science among 81 countries.

These results were similar to those from the Philippines' first participation in the PISA in 2018.

Angara emphasized that improving the PISA results is an immediate priority, highlighting the need to support approximately eight million students in Grades 7 through 10.

He noted issues such as limited access to technology and basic necessities impacting student performance, with some students attending school hungry or exhausted.

Angara stated that the Department of Education's doors are open to partners who wish to help improve the education sector, engaging with thousands of public schools and school divisions.