Working Arrangements.
Section 6
SEC. 6. Working Arrangements. — For the attainment of the objectives of this Decree, an Education Special Committee, composed of the Secretary of Education and Culture as Chairman and the Secretary of Finance and the Commissioner of the Budget as members, is hereby created which shall; (a) Approve and evaluate the specific-projects, endorsed to it by the National Board of Education, to be financed out of the resources provided for in this Decree; and (b) Administer the Educational Institutions Development Fund as hereinafter provided, except that the resources accruing into the Fund shall be managed by reputable fund managers or financial institutions. The National Board of Education, as reorganized pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 1, dated September 24, 1972, shall, in addition to its functions, perform the following: (a) Formulate education objectives and policies consistent with those enunciated in Section 2 hereof; and (b) Provide policy guidelines in the administration of the assistance and incentive programs provided for in Section 5 (g) hereof, which shall include a system of educational priorities consistent with national, regional and/or local requirements for education and skills training, and such other procedures and requirements as will ensure the continual upgrading of the quality of education, the rationalization and institutional growth, and the democratization of access to education. In the discharge of its functions, the National Board of Education shall be assisted by an office of planning and research known as Planning Service in the Department of Education and Culture. A project unit to be known as the Educational Development Projects Implementing Task Force is hereby established under the Office of the Secretary of Education and Culture to be headed by a Director and be composed of technical staff members and such consultants as are necessary. Its functions are: (a) To supervise and implement foreign-assisted development projects; and (b) To implement such other development projects as may be assigned to it by the Secretary of Education and Culture, Where the project involves an office, agency or instrumentality of the Government other than the Department of Education and Culture, appropriate working arrangements shall be established by the Educational Department Projects Implementing Task Force and the office, agency or instrumentality concerned, including the turn over of the project upon its completion to such office, agency or instrumentality to be integrated with and be part of the regular activities thereof.