The application period for the research fellowship in partnership with the Second Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM 2) and Ateneo de Manila University ends on Friday, July 5.
Ateneo, through its School of Government and the Gokongwei Brothers School of Education and Learning, opened the call for applications for the research fellowship, which seeks to engage interested researchers in the Philippines and abroad who are affiliated with a higher educational institution (including non-Ateneo scholars) to research priority areas identified by EDCOM 2.
“The Ateneo de Manila University is happy to support and partner with EDCOM 2 in its endeavor to study the challenges we face in Philippine education and to forge the path towards its reform and transformation,” Ateneo President Fr. Bobby Yap said.
“Through this collaboration between EDCOM 2 and the Gokongwei Brothers School of Education and Learning Design, we hope to make a significant scholarly contribution to this urgent national effort to address the educational crisis,” he added.
EDCOM said 16 research projects will tackle various topics on early childhood care and development, basic education, higher education, teacher education, technical-vocational education and training, lifelong learning, and governance and financing for education.
This initiative is part of EDCOM’s mandate to undertake data-driven research studies that would allow the Commission to diagnose the different challenges that contribute to learning outcomes, with the ultimate goal of being able to recommend transformative, concrete, and targeted reforms to enhance the global competitiveness of the Philippines in both education and labor markets.
EDCOM 2 Executive Director Karol Mark Yee said the Commission is “immensely grateful” for the support of Ateneo de Manila University.
“Data and research are the backbone of our mandate, and we intend to marry research and policy so our reforms are targeted and impactful while engaging with our country’s top scholars from universities here and abroad to help us best understand the challenges we face,” Yee said.
“These research projects represent the final areas of study EDCOM will look into in our three-year mandate, and we anticipate that their findings will significantly shape the final policy recommendations the Commission will make to address our manifold challenges in Philippine education," he added.
Interested qualified researchers can send their applications through https://bit/ly/EDCOM2xADMU and may coordinate through [email protected] for more information about the research fellowship.
The details of the 16 priority research areas can be accessed through https://bit.ly/3Vtrpxb.