CLOSE to one million Grades 7 and 8 students nationwide have registered for the National Learning Camps (NLC), a voluntary three-to-five-week learning recovery program during the school break meant to improve their learning performance and teachers’ skills and capacity.
Data provided by the Department of Education showed that 480,488 Grade 7 students, or around 28.43 percent of the total enrollment for school year 2022-2023, and 458,853 Grade 8 students, or 25.79 percent of the total enrollment, have registered for the NLC for a total of 939,341.
The department said the number may increase in the next few days.
“These are indicative figures only based on registrants. The number may increase further in the coming days,” the DepEd public information office said, adding they are also getting the number of teachers who volunteered to take part in the NLC.
The NLC, which will be offered every end-of-school-year- break, is part of the overall learning recovery initiatives of DepEd to improve the quality of basic education in the country, especially after the pandemic when schools were physically closed and students had to cope with blended learning.
