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.