Citing the need for classrooms conducive to learning, the government was urged to utilize partnerships between local government units (LGUs) and the private sector to accelerate the construction of cost-effective classrooms and eliminate shifting schedules for Kindergarten to Grade 3 students....
In a landmark move to combat childhood malnutrition, the Department of Education (DepEd) has officially launched the expanded School-Based Feeding Program (SBFP), providing daily meals to all public Kindergarten learners across the Philippines for the first time in history. The universal rollout of...
The Department of Education (DepEd) on Thursday, June 5, announced a revised Kindergarten cut-off age policy that will allow more Filipino children to begin formal education earlier. Starting School Year (SY) 2025–2026, children who turn five years old on or before October 31 will now be eligible...
With 240 affirmative votes, the House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading the bill seeking to suspend the implementation of mother tongue or first language as the medium of instruction for pupils in kindergarten to Grade 3. (Erika Fletcher/ Unsplash) Passed during plenary...
BEIJING, China -- Three people were killed and six others wounded in a knife attack Wednesday at a kindergarten in southeast China's Jiangxi province, police said. A "gangster wearing a cap and mask" stormed the private kindergarten in Anfu county at about 10:00 am local time (0200 GMT), police...
HANOI, Vietnam -- Hundreds of thousands of children of kindergarten ages in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi returned to school on Wednesday after a months-long hiatus due to Covid-19. Unlike school pupils and university students, kindergarten children did not have online learning while the schools...
The Department of Education (DepEd) reminded both public and private schools to ensure that the Kindergarten cut-off age shall be strictly implemented during the conduct of the Early Registration for School Year (SY) 2022-2023. (Photo from DepEd) “As we are set to conduct early registration, we...
Blended learning is targeted to start this school year for some pilot schools Last Monday, September 6, DepEd (Department of Education) Undersecretary Nepomuceno Malaluan announced at the Laging Handa public briefing that there will be a pilot-run of face-to-face classes for lower grade levesl. “...
Circulating in China's social media platform sharing site Weibo this week are photos of a little boy smelling someone's feet with the captions, "training masochism since childhood" and "parent leadership has been blocked" in Chinese. According to the Weixin , one of the thousands who shared the...
