In January 2020, the proposal of the Philosophy of Education Program to institute a Bachelor in Secondary Education (BSEd) Values Education was approved by the UP Board of Regents. Hence, the program now includes the undergraduate BSEd major in Values Education.
BSEd Values Education highlights the important role it plays as a key component of a holistic teacher preparation program. Values Education is a curricular area of study that seeks to equip students with critical thinking skills and other higher other competencies necessary to enable them to effectively address moral, practical, or evaluative problems in various contexts. It also sets a premium on the cultivation of intellectual values and attitudes needed in the production of a well-educated citizen and individual. Such features of the program a realigned with the scholarly and nationalistic visions of the University of the Philippines. The program aims to develop schoolteachers and researchers of Values Education who are able to actively contribute to the holistic education of the 21st century Filipino learners whose knowledge and values will like wise enable them to help build a socially just community.