Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte has opposed the proposal of a militant teachers’ group for the new administration to drop English in favor of Filipino as the medium of instruction, saying it would be a "recipe for disaster". Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte...
(ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) Students should be taught using the language that they best understand. The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Philippines, in a statement issued Friday, July 1, said this in reaction to a part of the inaugural address of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr....
(ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) While the decision of the incoming administration to review the K to 12 Program was “very much” welcomed, a group of Filipino language advocates urged the President-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to reconsider using English as a sole medium of...
Pokémon Kids TV celebrates its first anniversary in partnership with Cat’s Kitchen for a children’s show called ‘Sweet Paradise’ KITCHEN COLLAB Pokemon Kids TV in collaboration with Cat’s Kitchen Pokémon Kids TV marked its first anniversary last month. The channel is an official...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta In 1901, General Arthur MacArthur (Douglas’s father) announced: “A rapid extension of educational facilities is an exclusively military measure…” What a clever strategy, that was the essence of “benevolent assimilation” and “pacification.” Immediately,...
Duolingo’s English Course for Tagalog Speakers Duolingo, the world’s #1 language learning platform has some exciting news for the Philippines! This March, the world’s most downloaded educational app is launching an English course specifically designed for Tagalog speakers! Tagalog, the...
Filipino students from the University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) emerged as the grand champions at the 2022 Asian English Olympics. (Screenshot via Scott Tiamson) The event consists of seven divisions, namely: debate, newscasting, speech, storytelling, spelling bee, radio drama, and short...
The Department of Tourism (DOT) has wrapped up its second Hybrid Philippine Education Tourism Conference (PETC) over the week which was among the government's programs to promote the country. Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat speaks during the virtual recognition of...
ANGEL THOUGHTS Nina Lee Aquino Meet an outstanding Filipino-Canadian, who has been appointed to take over as artistic director of the English Theater of the National Arts Theater in Ottawa, Canada! She is Nina Lee Aquino, in her mid-forties, Filipino-born, to parents Amelita Aquino, a retired...
Some say it's just coincidence. Others believe otherwise. They think it is a direct attack on Aljur Abrenica. Talking about Robin Padilla's recent post, criticizing the use of the English language particularly in creating laws. It read: “Hindi ginawa ang batas para para maintindihan lamang ng mga...
Newcastle United supporters celebrate outside the club's stadium St James' Park in Newcastle upon Tyne in northeast England on October 7, 2021, after the sale of the football club to a Saudi-led consortium was confirmed. (Photo by - / AFP) A new era beckons for Newcastle on Sunday when a packed St...
SATCHMO Louis Daniel Armstrong My career in media began with Lifestyle Asia , whose coverage spanned the region, with a Hong Kong satellite office and a section solely devoted to all that was hot and happening to the then British crown colony. On account of its regional circulation, the house...
