Cocopea backs Dr. Karol Mark Yee as SAP for Education
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The Coordinating Council of Private Educational Associations (COCOPEA) has endorsed Dr. Karol Mark Yee as Special Assistant for Education to the President of the Republic of the Philippines.
Cocopea Chairman Fr. Albert Delvo manifested the federation’s full support for Dr. Yee in a letter dated September 12 to the Office of the President.
“We relayed to the President that Dr. Yee’s visionary leadership, acumen, and commitment to education will drive the Cabinet Cluster for Education towards achieving its goals, particularly in providing positive interventions for Filipino learners,” Fr. Delvo said.
“We believe that Dr. Yee, a devout Catholic Christian, possesses exceptional competence, commitment, and integrity to help the public and private education sectors towards achieving complementarity, addressing the learning gaps, and affording strong oversight to all education agencies under the executive department,” he added.
Cocopea Director John R. Jacome echoed this support, highlighting Dr. Yee’s current stint as Executive Director of the Second Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM2), which provided the doctor significant experience in assessing, evaluating, and offering solutions to the present problems and challenges besetting the Philippine education system.
“Through his work in EDCOM2, he has moved the Commission to shed light on the severity of our learning crisis. He has pushed for a more strategic response to the learning crisis (especially with the Department of Education’s learning recovery program), worked closely with government agencies like DepEd, the Department of Budget and Management, and the Civil Service Commission to unburden teachers of administrative tasks, pushed for greater coordination in nutrition programs to combat stunting in children, and has long worked on improving complementarity between public and private education,” the lawyer said.
Cocopea is composed of five national educational associations: Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines (CEAP); Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities (PACU); Association of Christian Schools, Colleges and Universities (ACSCU); Philippine Association of Private Schools, Colleges, and Universities (PAPSCU); and the Unified TVET of the Philippines (UniTVET). COCOPEA represents the largest group of private schools, colleges, universities, and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions in the country.
The group recognized the urgent need to address challenges in the Philippine education system, such as access to quality education, technological innovation and excellence, and infrastructure enhancement.
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