President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. issues an executive order creating the Education Philippines (EduPhil) Program to promote the Philippines as a preferred destination for international students pursuing higher education, research, and training. The order, signed Sept. 8, lays out measures to strengthen academic cooperation and support research and innovation partnerships involving the country’s higher education institutions.
The executive order also provides for efforts to facilitate the entry, stay, and education of foreign students. An EduPhil Task Force is established as the main inter-agency coordinating body to oversee promotion and implementation. Both outlets describe the same policy initiative and its broad objectives, with coverage focused on the creation of EduPhil and the executive order’s key functions and mechanisms.
While the reports are brief and do not detail specific funding or timelines, they consistently frame EduPhil as a government program intended to improve international student attraction and institutional linkages in higher education, research, and training.
