The Quality Basic Education Development Plan 2025-2035 (Q-BEDP) is the Department of Education’s ten-year plan for carrying out its 5-Point Reform Agenda. DepEd launched it on July 29, 2025 and lists it among its publications as QBEDP-25-001, with its own page on the DepEd website. The download is the 44-page plan as a PDF.

What the plan sets

  • Five outcomes: high-performing teachers, learners’ physical and mental well-being, efficient and supportive governance, education quality, and empowered graduates.
  • Three strategic levers: decentralization, public-private partnerships and digitalization. The plan says it recalibrates “how to reform,” not “what to reform” (p. 4).
  • Three basecamps: “Catching up” by 2028, “Innovation” by 2031 and “Overtaking” by 2034.
  • Annex 6: 34 indicators, most with 2023-2024 baselines, and targets for each basecamp, many of them school conditions, such as schools with a functional school governing council or at least one Administrative Officer.

What is inside

  1. Part I. Diagnosing the learning crisis.
  2. Part II. The 5-Point Reform Agenda, with the five outcomes and the basecamps.
  3. Part III. The strategic levers.
  4. Towards quality basic education in the Philippines.
  5. Annexes: futures thinking for education (1), aligning strategic, investment and operational plans (2), a financing architecture (3), the case for frontloading investments in children and youth (4), advancing digitalization (5), and the Q-BEDP indicators (6).

How it relates to the BEDP 2030

The Q-BEDP does not replace the Basic Education Development Plan (BEDP) 2030 that DepEd Order No. 024, s. 2022 adopted. In its own words, it “will steer and begin to operationalize the BEDP (now extended to 2035 to better match the country’s demographic window of opportunity)” (p. 3). It is DepEd’s strategic plan, published as a plan rather than as a DepEd Order: as of November 8, 2026, no DepEd order adopts the Q-BEDP or extends the BEDP to 2035.

The plan is deliberately thin on detail. Regions, divisions and other units are to write sub-plans from it (p. 3), and its Annex 2 says “School plans shall be appraised by the SDO” (p. 28). DepEd’s 2026 orders on the three-term school calendar (DO 009), summer remediation (DO 010) and the strengthened senior high school curriculum (DO 017), among others, cite it as their basis.

Why it matters for aspiring school heads

In the Philippine Professional Standards for School Heads (PPSSH, DO 024, s. 2020), the plan bears on Domain 1, Leading Strategically: strand 1.2 (school planning and implementation) and strand 1.7 (monitoring and evaluation processes and tools).

The Q-BEDP explains where DepEd’s targets come from. Division targets, the School Improvement Plan and a school head’s office commitments are expected to draw on its outcomes and indicators over the next decade, while the SIP itself still follows DO 44, s. 2015. The Q-BEDP guide reads the plan and its Annex 6 targets against the Philippine Development Plan, and the National Education Plan guide covers EDCOM II’s plan for the same decade.