Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Friday, April 23, urged the Department of Education (DepEd) to strengthen its child protection programs. Gatchalian, who chairs the Senate Committee on Basic Education, Arts and Culture, made the call following reports of sexual harassment involving faculty members of...
The Department of Education (DepEd) is eyeing the conduct of the virtual In-Service Training (VINSET) for teachers on a regular basis after an encouraging reception to its technological innovations. After the initiative reached approximately five million participants nationwide during the previous...
The Department of Education (DepEd), through the Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Service (DRRMS), released a microsite that features academic resources on environmental conservation and climate literacy that the public and private institutions can use for their classes. It involves lesson...
The Philippine Commission on Women (PCW) uses #WomenMakeChange in its online advocacy during Women’s Month. This year’s theme is ‘Juana Laban sa Pandemya: Kaya!’ The team of formidable “Juanas” with Education Secretary Leonor Briones: Undersecretaries Annalyn M....
• At 80, Briones leads the largest bureaucracy with hundreds of thousands of personnel and millions of students. • ‘They say I am already old but I believe I have the youngest ideas. There is no correlation between the state of my knees and the state of my brain,’ she said. • Believing...
The Department of Finance (DOF) said on Thursday, March 11, that the Bureau of Customs will donate another batch of seized mobile phones and computers to the Department of Education (DepEd). (MANILA BULLETIN) In a statement, Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III said the Customs bureau is...
A technology-enable company providing access to affordable education financing in Southeast Asia is planning to scale up operations in the Philippines to reach as many students as possible and help them finish their degrees. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) ErudiFi, a tech-enabled company...
After extending the school calendar until July this year, the Department of Education (DepEd) said that the deliberations for the opening of classes for School Year (SY) 2021-2022 are still ongoing. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) DepEd Undersecretary and Chief of Staff Nepomuceno Malaluan confirmed...
Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III has assured full support to the Department of Education’s (DepEd) efforts to ensure that Filipino learners continue their schooling despite the challenges brought by the coronavirus pandemic. MB file Dominguez said the DepEd's blended or hybrid learning...
Lea Salonga The Department of Education has expressed its gratitude to Broadway star Lea Salonga who apologized following a misunderstanding about a learning module associating tattoos with criminals. READ MORE:...
Reading, in this age, has become even more important Photo courtesy of Rabiya Mateo People living below the poverty line and those who are illiterate are in the same portion of the population, research has shown. Increasing the availability of books to the illiterate children in developing...
From face-to-face to blended distance learning, students are still adjusting to the sudden change of the education system, needing the help of their parents or guardians in finishing academic tasks at home. For this reason, more parents are getting involved, focusing their attention to their...
