Education in the Philippines
  
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| Secretary of DepEd Chairperson of CHED Director-General of TESDA |
Leonor Briones Patricia Licuanan Guiling Mamondiong |
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| Budget | ₱461 billion (US$10 billion) |
| Primary languages | |
| Total | 21,042,250 (public elementary and junior high schools only) |
| Primary | 15,114,208 (only public elementary schools) |
| Secondary | 5,928,042 (only public junior high schools) |
| Post secondary | Unknown |
Education in the Philippines is managed and regulated by the Department of Education (DepEd), Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA). DepEd is responsible for the K–12 basic education; it exercises full and exclusive control over public schools and nominal regulation over private schools, and it also enforces the national curriculum that has been put in place since 2013. CHED and TESDA, on the other hand, are responsible for higher education; CHED regulates the academically-oriented universities and colleges while TESDA oversees the development of technical and vocational education institutions and programs in the country.
From 1945 to 2011, basic education took ten years to complete—six years of elementary education and four years of high school education for children aged six up to fifteen. However, after the implementation of the K–12 Program of DepEd and subsequent ratification of Kindergarten Education Act of 2012 and Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013, the basic education today takes thirteen years to complete—one year of kindergarten, six years of elementary education, four years of junior high school and two years of senior high school for children aged five up to seventeen. As of 2016[update], the implementation of Grade 11 has started.
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