By Justine Irish D. Tabile, Senior Reporter
WEAK FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS among Filipino students could undermine the competitiveness of the future workforce and force businesses to spend more on training future employees, an industry group said.
Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) President Donald Patrick L. Lim said the improvement in the mean scores of Filipino 15-year-olds in the 2025 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is encouraging but should not be celebrated too early.
“If only 21% of our students meet minimum proficiency in math, and around a third in reading and science, then we have a serious future workforce problem,” he told BusinessWorld in a Viber message.
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