2026 · EDCOM II Final Report
Turning Point: A Decade of Necessary Reform (2026–2035)
The commission's three-year assessment of Philippine education, with a ten-year National Education and Workforce Development Plan.
Education · Research · Public Policy
So every Filipino child can learn.
A collection of writings, research, and conversations on education, public policy, and the challenges and possibilities facing the Philippines.
Writings
Essays and policy papers.
2022 · UP CIDS Public Policy Monograph
The Changing Landscape of Philippine Higher Education: Going Beyond the Public and Private Debate
2020 · International Higher Education
The Philippines' Two Private Sectors
2014 · HGSE Student Research Conference
Deeper Reforms in Singapore and Shanghai: Lessons for the Philippine Education System
Op-ed · Philippine Daily Inquirer
The kids are not alright, but our targets say otherwise
Research
Inequality in educational access and outcomes, higher education stratification, private education, and social mobility.
2023 · International Journal of Educational Development, vol. 101
Raising the floor while lowering the ceiling: Reduced inequities in education returns in the Philippines
2023 · PhD dissertation, University of Cambridge
Winner-Takes-All: Access to Education and Labor Market Returns in the Philippines
With I. N. Generalao, G. Ducanes and C. C. David
Teacher Education in the Philippines: Are We Meeting the Demand for Quality?
2019 · With C. C. David and G. Ducanes
Graduate Degrees of Higher Education Faculty in the Philippines: Status and Ways Forward
Speeches
Addresses to schools, educators and the academic community.
2025 · Xavier School
High School Commencement Address
2024 · AACCUP National Conference
Keynote, 37th Annual National Conference and General Assembly
2023 · PAASCU General Assembly
PAASCU in the Light of EDCOM II
Interviews
Conversations with journalists and broadcasters.
GMA News
The ways out of learning poverty
BusinessWorld · 2026
On mass promotion and declining proficiency
The Manila Times · 2026
Why education reform needs a ten-year horizon
British Council
Interview with an education policy advocate
About
Karol Mark Yee works at the intersection of education, research, and public policy in the Philippines. His work examines how education systems can better serve learners, particularly those from disadvantaged communities, and how evidence can inform institutional and policy reform.
He is Executive Director of the Second Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM II), where he led the technical secretariat through the commission's 2026 final report. He previously served as Executive Director of the Commission on Higher Education, directed its K to 12 Transition Program, and began his career as a legislative officer under Senator Edgardo Angara.
He has taught at the Ateneo de Manila University and is a research fellow at the UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies and a research affiliate of PROPHE at SUNY Albany.
- PhD, Education
- University of Cambridge, 2023
- EdM, International Education Policy
- Harvard University, 2014
- BA, Broadcast Communication
- University of the Philippines Diliman