(PHOTO FROM ALLIANCE OF CONCERNED TEACHERS) The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) on Tuesday, Nov. 23, welcomed the Senate Committee on Finance’s decision to increase the budget of the Department of Education (DepEd) and state universities and colleges (SUCs). "We welcome the developments in...
Food and snack company Mondelez Philippines has committed to collect and divert more plastic waste in 2022 as part of its sustainability efforts. In a statement, Mondelez Philippines said it aims to collect more plastic waste next year. This, after the company was able to collect and divert a total...
A group on Monday, Nov. 22, urged the public to report possible concerns of academic and non-academic personnel on the preparation and on the actual resumption of face-to-face classes nationwide. (Image from ACT Private Schools) The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Private Schools enjoined the...
Health workers batted for safe and most effective coronavirus disease (COVID-19) booster shots as fully vaccinated medical frontliners started receiving booster shots on Wednesday, Nov. 17. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) "COVID-19 booster and third doses are additional protection to health workers...
A group of education workers is pushing an additional funding amounting to P2 billion to increase the honoraria and allowances of poll workers in the 2022 national and local elections. (Photo from DepEd) “Our teachers will yet again be at the frontlines of another election,” Alliance of...
The Alliance for Isko Movement (AIM) was officially designated as the multi-sectoral arm of Manila Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" Domagoso's Aksyon Demokratiko party. PHOTO FROM MAYOR ISKO'S CAMPAIGN TEAM Aksyon Demokratiko standard bearer Domagoso and AIM president Freddie Go signed the Memorandum...
As the needs of the education sector become even more crucial with the implementation of pilot face-to-face classes , a group on Wednesday, Nov. 17, challenged presidential aspirants in the 2022 election to include education in their platforms. Vice President Leni Robredo (Mark Balmores / File...
As the country partially reopened its schools this week, the Department of Education (DepEd) was urged to take note of the challenges experienced by the schools included in the pilot implementation of face-to-face classes. Pilot implementation of face-to-face classes in Mary Perpetua E. Brioso...
While teachers are ready for the partial reopening of schools during the pilot run of limited face-to-face classes, a group urged the government to protect their welfare by giving them less non-teaching duties. Photo taken at Latian Elementary School in Alabel Sarangani last January 2021 (DepEd...
Health workers and other health organizations held a "die-in-protest" in front of the Senate gate on Tuesday, Nov. 16, to assert and demand higher health budget appropriation and salary increase. (Photo from AHW) “The actual DOH budget allotment for the Office of the Secretary under the National...
Alliance Global Group, Inc. (AGI), the investment arm of tycoon Andrew Tan, posted a hefty 173 percent jump in net income to P17.3 billion in the first nine months of 2021 from P6.4 billion during the same period last year. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the firm attributed its...
A group of education workers on Friday, Nov. 12, challenged presidentiables and other candidates in the 2022 national and local elections to include in their platforms issues concerning teachers and the education sector as a whole. (Photo from ACT) During a virtual press briefing, the Alliance of...
