2002 Basic Education Curriculum The implementation of the 2002 Basic Education Curriculum was announced in DepEd Order

No. 25, s. 2002, issued on June 17, 2002. But even before that controversial memorandum* was issued, the move was questioned. According to then-Sec. of Education Raul Roco (RIP), the 2002 BEC was based on a 16-year study (starting in 1986). Implementation of RBEC was based on Executive Order No. 46, which in turn was based on recommendations of the Philippine Commission on Educational Reforms (PCER), created on Dec. 7, 1998. The actual implementing guidelines were found in DepEd Order No. 43, s. 2002, dated Aug. 29, 2002. Less than a year later (on June 12, 2003), a new curriculum (the Revised BEC) was signed into law. Months later, people were still asking if RBEC was effective. (* How controversial was that memorandum? Perhaps out of mistake, but DepEd Order No. 25, s. 2002 is not included in the index of the 2002 orders of DepEd - although it is there, proved by the fact that we can link to it.) Since we had observed that DepEd keeps changing the URLs to their files (as if their site are search-engine friendly) we attach to this message three files: the announcement for BEC, the implementing rules for BEC, and the implementing rules for RBEC.