Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Tuesday vowed to pursue measures aimed at granting higher salaries for teachers saying this would further help boost their morale. “Isa sa ating mga adbokasiya ay pataasin ang moral ng ating mga guro at hikayatin ang mga estudyante natin na kumuha ng kurso sa...
Reelectionist Senator Risa Hontiveros has committed to push for better pay and benefits for teaching and non-teaching personnel as she bared her education agenda on Friday, Feb. 11. Senator Risa Hontiveros (Photo courtesy of Hontiveros Office) During the Senatorial forum of the Alliance of...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Monday slammed the reported hacking of teachers’ bank accounts by still unidentified “unscrupulous individuals” whom he said are concocting all kinds of methods to steal money via online and other digital means. Earlier in the day, the Teachers’ Dignity...
Instead of splitting the release of their salaries, a group on Monday, Nov. 8 urged the Department of Education (DepEd) to work on the “real issue” the pay hike for teachers. (FILE PHOTO / DEPED) The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) said this after DepEd announced its plan to release...
The House of Representatives' recent plenary budget deliberation has exposed some shortcomings in the Philippine educational sector, its members lamented. (DepEd/File Photo) Among the shortcomings were the zero appropriation for four state universities in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim...
All teachers and non-teaching personnel who will be participating in the pilot implementation of limited face-to-face classes need to be vaccinated against coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Department of Education (DepEd) on Monday, Sept. 27, said. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) During the virtual...
A total of 150 faculty clubs have submitted to the House of Representatives a resolution seeking to increase the salaries of the country’s public school teachers. (ACT Facebook page) The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) said its members and leader-representatives filed a resolution calling...
President Duterte said he was getting ready to increase the salary of teachers but the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) foiled his plan and forced him to allocate the funds for the government's pandemic response efforts. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte (ALBERTO ALCAIN/ PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO / MANILA...
