DepEd creates 9 new posts for teacher career pathing

MANILA, Philippines — Public schoolteachers, many of whom leave the service in low-level positions, now have the opportunity to boost their careers through new teaching and administrative positions created by the Department of Education (DepEd).

But according to a teachers’ group, these positions will have a “limited impact” on schoolteachers because the shortage of teachers as well as their heavy workload remain serious disincentives in their work.

Education Secretary Juan Edgardo Angara, in a ceremony on Friday, signed the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) institutionalizing the “career progression policy” of Executive Order No. 174 which then President Rodrigo Duterte issued in 2022.

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