PAMPANGA Rep. Gloria Arroyo proposed the conversion of the K to 12 basic education curriculum into what she called the K+10+2 program.

She said that numerous studies showed that the TVL curriculum in the two years of senior high school failed to meet its original goal of producing job-ready graduates.

“The last two years will not be voc-tech. They will be similar to the foundational college courses in Europe where they are preparatory to university education,” Arroyo explained.

Under her proposal, students will graduate upon completing fourth year high school, but the last two years in secondary school will be pre-university for those who want to proceed to a professional degree.

“Hopefully it will be an alternative solution to improving technical education which should have been done administratively and not by law,” Arroyo said.

The House committees on basic education and culture and on higher and technical education are fine-tuning House Bill 7505, or the proposed Act Strengthening the Technical, Vocational and Livelihood Curriculum for the Senior High School.

The lawmaker, however, asked the two panels to defer deliberations on HB 7505 until her related bill can be referred to the same panels for scrutiny.