University of the Philippines Diliman

Starting next semester, the UP Diliman College of Education will start offering the minor in ALS program to both education and non-education majors to ...

With more than seven million out-of-school youth and adults in the Philippines — the fifth largest in the world — the government passed a law in 2020 to institutionalize ALS and increase the number of teachers deployed to communities outside the formal schooling system. Starting next semester, the UP Diliman College of Education will start offering the minor in ALS program to both education and non-education majors to address the shortage of community-based teachers in the country. MANILA, Philippines — The University of the Philippines Diliman has approved a proposal to create a minor program in Alternative Learning System — the first of its kind in the Philippines that will allow students to specialize in teaching marginalized communities.