Evaluation of the Philippine government major scholarship and study grant programs
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2003-04
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Evaluating the equity, efficiency and adequacy of the Philippine Government Major Scholarship and Study Grant Programs is the goal of this study. In order to gauge the equity of the programs, the distribution of the scholarship slots per region, including the NCR, CAR, CARAGA and ARMM in each program is evaluated. The efficiency of the programs is defined in terms of their success in achieving their goal of distributing slots to priority courses, which are said to contribute greatly to the economic development of the country. The programs are also evaluated on how adequate they are in equalizing education opportunities by comparing the percentage of the total number of student scholars and students with financial assistance with the total number of students in the tertiary level. Descriptive analysis led us to conclude that there is uneven regional distribution; more slots are given to regions like NCR while regions with the highest rate of incidence of poverty are given the lowest number of slots. It was also found out that the Research and Information Technology is given priority by the government, however Engineering and Math, and Computer Science only ranked fourth and fifth consecutively from the most demanded courses of the student beneficiaries. Furthermore, accommodated number of grantees is comparatively insignificant to the yearly total enrollment of the students in the tertiary level and the government has yet to succeed in redistributing educational opportunities to all.
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Scholarship program, Study grant, Government program, Higher education, Human capital development