The Philippine Educational System is undergoing a major overhaul that shifts from a 10-year education to 12 years known as Enhanced Basic Education Curriculum or K-12. The purpose of this mixed-methods sequential explanatory study was to identify factors that determine readiness of select higher education institutions to the full implementation of the K-12 program. Results were obtained through a survey questionnaire in the quantitative phase and followed up with semi-structured interviews from purposely selected participants. In the quantitative phase, five factors were found to be predictors of readiness, they are: eligibility, staffing guidelines, course streamlining, workforce surplus management, and alternative programs, while in the qualitative follow-up; the phenomenological inquiry yielded five essential themes related to readiness, namely: requalifying the teachers, retooling the teachers, realigning the curriculum, reclassifying the teachers, and redirecting professional development. Both, the quantitative and qualitative findings from the two phases of this study prove that the higher education institutions are ready for the new structure and demonstrate active involvement in ensuring a smooth transition and successful implementation of the new program. Implications and recommendations are provided for policy makers, concerned government institutions, higher education institutions, and teachers to consider in adopting the country's biggest education reform agenda.

<p>The Philippine government is currently investing on education reform through the Enhanced<br />Basic Education Program or the K-12 Curriculum. The recent basic education program does<br />not only call for academic excellence but also on higher teacher qualification. The purpose of<br />this study is to determine whether or not teacher licensure matters in the implementation of<br />the basic education reform in the Philippine Education system. Qualitative in orientation, this<br />study utilized Phenomenology as its research design to capture the lebenswelt of college<br />teachers who are distraught by the implementation of the new K-12 curriculum. Data were<br />gathered through interviews and the analysis of data was empirically observed using the<br />following steps: transcribing, coding, theming, verifying, and analyzing. The analysis of data<br />in this phenomenological inquiry yielded three essential themes based on the respondents’<br />major statements pertaining to eligibility that makes the college teacher qualified to teach in<br />the Senior High School of the new K-12 program, namely: full eligibility, provisionary<br />eligibility, and temporary eligibility. The college teachers in this study accept and favor the<br />Department of Education’s teaching licensure requirement. They believe that passing the<br />Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) is an important requirement before entering the<br />classroom. The shared experiences of the participants of the study serve as a primordial<br />source to raise awareness about the value and importance of teacher licensure to meet the<br />high quality standards set by the profession and the hiring standard recognized by the<br />government and public schools as an assurance of competence and quality.</p>

The focused of this study is on the readiness of higher education institutions in the Philippines to the implementation of the Senior High School program of the new K-12 curriculum. Data were collected through a survey questionnaire. The findings reveal five predisposing factors, namely: eligibility, staffing guidelines, course streamlining, workforce surplus management, and alternative programs to be determinants of senior high school readiness among college teachers and higher education institutions that will ensure sustainability and the promotion and protection of the welfare of the affected faculty and other employees in the higher education sector.

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<div>The study is sequential explanatory mixed-methods design utilizing quantitative approach in initial phase supported by the qualitative analysis. On the one hand, the quantitative part of this study addresses the relevant factors that influence industry performance as to the various system and approach implementation for asset management system, mainly on the critical asset with the related assurance management predictor related to the integrated maintenance management system (IMMS). On the other hand, in the qualitative phase, the generative process, competitive process, and preventive process are the essential themes that further explain in determining the worldview and the lived experiences of the purposefully selected respondents. </div>