PRESIDENTIAL

DECREE NO. 6-A

(Educational Development Decree of 1972)

Our former President, the Late Ferdinand E. Marcos,
by virtue of the powers vested in him by the
Constitution as Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed
Forces of the Philippines and pursuant to
Proclamation No. 1081 dated September 21, 1972 and
General Order No. 1 dated September 22, 1972, do
hereby decree, order and make as part of the law of
the land. This decree shall be known as the
Educational Development Decree of 1972.
It is declared to be the policy of the government to
ensure, within the context of a free and democratic
system maximum contribution of the educational
system to the attainment of the following national
development goals:
a) To achieve and maintain an accelerating rate of economic
development and social progress;
b) To assure the maximum participation of all the people in
the attainment and enjoyment of the benefits of such
growth; and
c) To strengthen national consciousness and promote
desirable cultural values in a changing world.
To this end, the educational system aims to:
a) Provide for a broad general education that will assist each
individual, in the peculiar ecology of his own society, to (1)
attain his potential as a human being; (2) enhance the
range and quality of individual and group participation in
the basic functions of society; and (3) acquire the essential
educational foundation for his development into a
productive and versatile citizen;
b) Train the nations manpower in the middle, level skill
required for national development;
c) Develop the high-level professions that will provide
leadership for the nation, advance knowledge through
research, and apply new knowledge for improving the
quality of human life ; and
d) Respond effectively to changing needs and conditions of the
nation through a system of educational planning and
evaluation.
In order to lay the foundation and to advance the
attainment of these objectives, a ten-year national
education development program shall be formulated
based on the following:
a) Improvement of curricular program and quality of
instruction in all levels by way of upgrading physical
facilities, adoption of cost-saving instructional
technology, and training and re-training of teachers and
administrators;
b) Upgrading of academic standards through accreditation
schemes, admissions testing and guidance counselling;
c) Democratization of access to educational opportunities
through the provision of financial assistance to deserving
students, skills training programs for out-of-school youth
and continuing education program for non-literature
adults;
d) Restructuring of higher education to become more
responsive to national development needs through a
planned system of incentives and assistance to both public
and private colleges and universities and synchronization
of curricular programs, staffing patterns and institutional
development activities;
e) Expansion of existing programs and establishment of new
ones designed to train middle-level technical and
agricultural manpower; and
f) Instituting reform in the educational financing system to
facilitate the shift of funding responsibility for elementary
and secondary education from the national to the local
government, thereby increasing participation in higher
education.
a) Restructuring of higher education to become more
responsive to national development needs through a
planned system of incentives and assistance to both public
and private colleges and universities and synchronization
of curricular programs, staffing patterns and institutional
development activities;
b) Expansion of existing programs and establishment of new
ones designed to train middle-level technical and
agricultural manpower; and
c) Instituting reform in the educational financing system to
facilitate the shift of funding responsibility for elementary
and secondary education from the national to the local
government, thereby increasing participation in higher
education.
The above-stated objectives shall be attained through
the undertaking of the following educational
development projects:
a) Management study of the Department of Education and
Culture and institution of administrative improvements
therein;
b) Establishment and/or operation or improvement of
secondary schools which may include provision for
extension services, facilities and equipment to allow the
use of expanded and improved curriculum;
c) Establishment and/or operation, upgrading or
improvement of technical institutes, skills training
centres, and other non-formal training programs and
projects for the out-of-school youth and the unemployed
in collaboration with the programs of the National
Manpower and Youth Council;
d) Curriculum and staff development including mathematics
and science teaching;
e) Expansion of agricultural secondary and higher
education programs and extension activities which may
include radio broadcasting and rural training services,
and the provision of facilities thereof including seed
capital and revolving funds;
f) Design, utilization and improvement of instructional
technology and development/production of textbooks and
other instructional materials; and
g) Assistance and incentives, including loans and grants,
toward the planned development and improvement of
programs and facilities in both public and private
universities, colleges and schools.

In addition, other educational development projects
necessary pursuant to the objectives of this Decree are
likewise to be undertaken: Provided, that for such
projects to qualify under this Decree, the same must be
consistent with the principles enunciated and
supported by sufficient studies, data and plans of
operation and implementation, endorsed by the
National Board of Education to and approved by an
Education Special Committee. To form part of the
educational development program. For the attainment
of the objectives of this Decree, an Education Special
Committee, composed of the Secretary of Education and
Culture as Chairman and the Secretary of Finance and
the Commissioner of the Budget as members, is hereby
created which shall;
a) Approve and evaluate the specific projects, endorsed to it
by the National Board of Education, to be financed out of
the resources provided for in this Decree; and
b) Administer the Educational Institutions Development
Fund as hereinafter provided, except that the resources
accruing into the Fund shall be managed by reputable
fund managers or financial institutions.
The National Board of Education as reorganized
pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 1 dated September
24, 1972, shall, in addition to its functions, perform the
following:
a) Formulate education objectives and policies consistent
with those enunciated in Section 2 hereof; and
b) Provide policy guidelines in the administration of the
assistance and incentive programs provided for in which
shall include a system of educational priorities consistent
with national, regional and/or local requirements for
education and skills training, and such other procedures
and requirements as will ensure the continual upgrading
of the quality of education, the rationalization of
institutional and the democratization of access to
education.
In the discharge of its functions, the National Board of
Education shall be assisted by an office of planning and
research known as Planning Service in the Department
of Education and Culture. A project unit to be known
as the Educational Development Projects Implementing
Task Force is hereby established under the Office of
the Secretary of Education and Culture to be headed
by a Director and be composed of technical staff
members and such consultants as are necessary. Its
functions are:
a) To supervise and implement foreign-assisted development
projects; and
b) To implement such other development projects as may be
assigned to it by the Secretary of Education and Culture.
Where the project involves an office, agency or
instrumentality of the government other than the
Department of Education and Culture, appropriate working
arrangements shall be established by the Educational
Development Projects Implementing Task Force and the
office, agency or instrumentality concerned, including the
turnover of the project upon its completion to such office,
agency or instrumentality to be integrated with and be part
of the regular activities thereof.
The President of the Philippines, in behalf of the Republic of
the Philippines, may contract loans, credits or indebtedness
with any foreign source or lender, under such terms and
conditions as may be agreed upon, to cover the costs of
feasibility studies, equipment machineries, supplies,
construction, installation and related services of any such
projects. Provided, that the loans, credits or indebtedness
authorized herein shall be incurred on terms of payment of
not less than ten (10) years.

The proceeds of such loans, credits or indebtedness, as
well as the appropriations shall be used exclusively for
financing the educational development projects
authorized under this Decree. Provided, that for the
purpose of ensuring continued assistance to the
planned development and improvement of programs
and facilities in both public and private universities,
colleges and schools, there is hereby authorized to be
established an Educational Institutions Development
Fund in an amount of not less than ten million pesos
(Php10,000,000.00), Philippine currency, annually for a
period of ten (10) years. The said fund shall be
administered as a separate fund and lending or
relending operations to private universities, colleges
and schools shall be subject to the rules and regulations
to be promulgated by the National Board of Education
with the approval of the Secretary of Finance.
Cities, provinces and municipalities may undertake
educational development projects pursuant to the
objectives of this Decree and are hereby authorized to
avail themselves of proceeds of loans, credits or
indebtedness herein authorized as well as the
appropriations and receive financial assistance subject
to such conditions as may be provided for and/or
promulgated by the National Board of Education
pursuant to this Decree.

In addition to the proceeds of the loans, credits or
indebtedness, there is hereby appropriated for the
projects authorized herein the sum of five hundred
million pesos (Php500,000,000.00) out of the funds in the
National Treasury not otherwise appropriated which
shall be programmed and released in the following
manner: fifty million pesos (Php50,000,000.00) for the
Fiscal Year 1972-73 and fifty million pesos
(Php50,000,000.00) annually thereafter until June 30,
1982. Provided, that notwithstanding the said schedule,
releases in a given year shall be adjusted in accordance
with the actual requirements of the projects being
implemented during said fiscal year: Provided further,
that should there be any surplus in the annual
appropriations herein provided, the same shall accrue to
the Educational Special Account herein created in the
General Fund which shall be made available to finance
the projects during the subsequent fiscal years.
There is established in the National Treasury an
Educational Special Account to meet the appropriations
herein provided, which account shall be constituted from
the following sources:
a) Proceeds from bond issuance;
b) Twenty million pesos (Php20,000,000.00) annually for the
share of the National Government in the Special Education
Fund;
c) Fifteen million pesos (Php15,000,000.00) from the Special
Science Fund for Fiscal Year 1973-1973 and fifty per centum
(50%) annually thereafter until June 30, 1982 of the total
annual receipts from the taxes;
d) Future savings of the Department of Education and Culture
that may result from the implementation reforms consequent to
management study;
e) Augmentations from the General Funds which are hereby
authorized in cases where the above sources are not sufficient
to cover expenditures required in any year.
The Department of Education and Culture is hereby
authorized to receive and spend or utilize donations
and/or bequests made in pursuance of the purposes and
for projects enunciated in this Decree which donations
and/or bequests shall be exempt from the payment of
gift taxes.
The Secretary of Finance may issue and sell bonds not
exceeding twenty million pesos annually under the
authority of Republic Act No. 4861, any provision of
law to the contrary, notwithstanding.
Any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding,
effective July 1, 1972 until June 30, 1982, twenty
million pesos (PHP20,000,000.00) of the annual share of
the National Government from the Special Education
fund provided and shall accrue to the Educational
Special Account herein provided. Thereafter, the said
share shall accrue to the General Fund.

In this connection, the shares of the local governments
from the said Fund may be used by them to finance
such projects as may be established in their locality
under the authority of this Decree regardless of any
restrictions imposed thereon.
Any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding,
effective upon approval of this Decree, fifteen million
pesos (Php15,000,000.00) of the Special Science fund
established and as amended is hereby transferred to
the Educational Special Account herein provided.
Starting July 1, 1972 until June 30, 1982, fifty per
centum (50%) of the total annual collection from the
taxes imposed and as amended shall accrue to the
Educational Special Account. Thereafter, said portion
shall accrue to the General Fund.
Such amount of savings resulting from the
implementation of reforms consequent to the
management study authorized as may be necessary to
prosecute the projects under this Decree shall accrue to
the Educational Special Account.
In cases where funds from sources specified are not
sufficient to meet the requirements in any fiscal year,
such amounts as are necessary to meet such
requirements are hereby appropriated out of the funds
in the General Fund not otherwise appropriated and
transferred to the Education Special Account.
The loans, credits or indebtedness incurred pursuant to
this Decree, the payment of the principal, interests and
other charges thereon, the earnings of the fund as well
as the importation of articles, materials, equipment,
machineries and supplies, including all building
materials by the Department of Education and Culture
or other offices, agencies or instrumentalities of the
government and by private or chartered entities
authorized by the Education Special Committee to
undertake the projects authorized in this Act shall be
exempt from all taxes, duties, fee, imports, other
charges and restrictions, including import restrictions,
imposed by the Republic of the Philippines or any of its
agencies or political subdivisions. The Secretary of
Finance shall promulgate rules and regulations
necessary for the purpose.
There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of
any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, such sums as may be necessary to pay
the principal, interests and other charges on the loans,
credits or indebtedness incurred under the authority of
this Decree as and when they become due.
All laws, executive orders, rules or regulations or parts
thereof which are inconsistent with this Decree are
hereby repealed and/or modified accordingly.
This Decree shall take effect immediately. Done in the
City of Manila, this 29
th
day of September, in the year
of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy two (1972).

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