By : ELLEN A. AZUELO, PhD

Education Program Supervisor-Science

There are One thousand six hundred seventy four (1674) teacher applicants for SY 2015-2016 of  Deped Bukidnon of which 230 were Kindergarten applicants, 877 Elementary and 567 secondary applicants as shown in the table below:

Table 1. Number of teacher applicants for SY 2015-2016 classified into qualified and disqualified.

Category	Qualified	%	Disqualified	%	Total	%
Kindergarten	98	42.6	132	57.4	230	100
Elementary	260	29.6	617	70.4	877	100
Secondary	194	34.2	373	65.8	567	100
Total	552	33	1122	67	1674	100

Table 2. Registry of Qualified Applicant against new item allocation

Category	Items available	%	Total no. of RQA	Difference
Kindergarten/Elementary	320	89.4	358	38
Secondary	105	54.1	194	89
Total	425	77	552	127

Table 1 shows the number of teacher applicants for SY 2015-2016 classified into qualified and disqualified. As shown in the table, there are 552   ( 33% )  qualified and 1122 (67%) disqualified. This means that only 1/3 of the total teacher applicants got the total points of 70 and above while 2/3 got a total point of below 70.

In table 2, it shows that out of the 552 total qualified applicants for kindergarten, elementary and secondary, 425 of them are very much sure  to be given appointment based on the new item allocation. However the remaining 127 teachers might be hired due to natural vacancies.

With the aforementioned information, DepEd Division of Bukidnon has a hiring rate of  more than 77% for SY 2015-2016.