Albay Rep. Joey Sarte Salceda issued an urgent call for a congressional inquiry into the state of the country’s information technology and computer science education and its impact on the software industry, and the noted low quality graduates, by global standards, these courses have been churning out lately.
Salceda recently filed House Resolution 772, urging the House committees on higher and technical education and information and communication technology to immediately formulate measures to improve the quality of learning in these fields.
The lawmaker said enrollment in Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (BSIT) have registered a disturbing downtrend and the quality of education tested dismally poor, affecting the state of the software industry in the country and its global competitiveness.
Computer science and information technology are frontier development disciplines in which the Philippines should be able to develop at par, if not ahead, of other countries specially the Asean community, he said.