Declaring an education crisis will be among the first things Vice President Leni Robredo will do if elected president. Vice President Leni Robredo (Photo courtesy of VP Leni Media Bureau) Robredo said this at "The Education President: Interviews with Presidential Aspirants on Philippine Education"...
Presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo emphasized the need to improve the quality of education in the country to provide more opportunities for younger Filipinos who are about to enter the workforce. Vice President Leni Robredo during the PiliPinas Debate of the Commission on Elections...
Struggling private schools in the country shouldn't be left to "die". Such was the appeal of Quezon City 5th district Rep. Alfred Vargas to the Department of Education (DepEd), which he feels could be more proactive in supporting private schools already in dire straits. (Unsplash) "I personally met...
Ahead of the two-day visit by Vice President Leni Robredo to Negros Occidental, a youth group there on Thursday, November 4, unveiled their youth agenda and expressed their support for the presidential aspirant. Vice President Leni Robredo (Mark Balmores/MANILA BULLETIN) Negros Youth for Leni...
(ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) A Ramon Magsaysay awardee for education urged the Department of Education (DepEd) to address issues and concerns on the current curriculum in order to solve the educational crisis in the country. “The Philippines is in a crisis. We cannot really afford to look at the...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Tuesday, July 27 expressed his disappointment that President Duterte did not mention the current "education crisis" in the Philippines in his final State of the Nation Address (SONA). Gatchalian said he was hoping the President would tackle the education crisis that...
Even as the World Bank already apologized for inadvertantly releasing a report on the poor learning outcomes of Filipino children, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian believed that the government should be open to accepting its findings to address what he also considered a "crisis" in the Philippines'...
Vice President Leni Robredo’s call for the Philippine government to declare an “education crisis” did not sit well with Education Secretary Leonor Briones. Education Secretary Leonor Briones (DepEd / FILE PHOTO/ MANILA BULLETIN) “I don’t know who should judge whether we have a crisis in...
The Philippine government must declare an “education crisis,” Vice President Leni Robredo said on Sunday, July 11, noting the “bad data” on the education system in the country. Vice President Leni Robredo (FEDERICO CRUZ / MANILA BULLETIN) This suggestion came after the World Bank apologized...
