CEDAW/C/PHI/4 English Page 41 136. Educational attainment. The proportion of women who had some high school education increased from 42.3 per cent in 1970 to 46.4 per cent in 1990. Female college degree holders also increased in proportion from 7.2 per cent in 1980 to 9.8 per cent in 1990. Among those who completed post-secondary vocational courses, 53.4 per cent were female. On the other hand, female household heads who had not completed any grade in school decreased from 14 per cent in 1985 to 10.4 per cent in 1988. Policy developments 137. Enumerated below are policy developments, some of which were enacted even before the reporting period but were not mentioned in the earlier reports. 138. Executive Order 117 provides, among others, for the promotion and maintenance of equality of access to education and enjoyment of the benefits to be derived from it by all citizens. As a result of this and Republic Act 7192, women may now enrol in the Philippine Military Academy. In 1992, the Academy had 16 female cadets. 139. Republic Act 7323 (1992) encourages poor students to pursue their education through job opportunities during vacations. Employers who hire them pay only 60 per cent of their salaries, while the remaining amount is paid by government through education vouchers. 140. Republic Act 6728 (1989) grants government assistance to students and teachers in private education. These grants consist of tuition fee supplements, allowance for honour students and financial assistance to those who are in their first year in college. Private schoolteachers who have meagre earnings and are mostly female, can avail themselves of scholarships to enable them to continue higher education and qualify them for more responsible positions. 141. Republic Act 6972 (1990) mandates the establishment of a day-care centre in every barangay to enable women to use other options, such as taking a job or going back to school, and to respond to their multiple burden. 142. The following have been integrated into the policies of the Medium-term Philippine Development Plan, 1993-1998, which address, among others, the need to make education and training, especially in non-traditional fields, accessible to women: (a) Making both formal and informal education accessible to women; (b) Providing education and training opportunities, placement assistance, and incentives to women who desire to enter non-traditional fields of training; (c) Ensuring the responsiveness of information, education and communication to the needs of women; (d) Developing and upgrading (science and technology) manpower capability by strengthening engineering and science education and providing relevant technical training and improving literacy in information technology of women and men. /...