Investigations into alleged irregularities involving infrastructure and flood control projects must go beyond prosecution and serve as a catalyst for institutional reform, Ombudsman Jesus Crispin “Boying” Remulla said on Thursday, June 18. Remulla made the remarks before governance leaders and...
The Department of Education (DepEd) has rolled out a simplified and more flexible lesson planning framework for public school teachers, replacing decade-old guidelines in a move aimed at improving teaching effectiveness and giving educators greater flexibility in delivering lessons. This replaces...
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has flagged corruption as a major risk to Philippine infrastructure delivery, warning that the multibillion-peso flood-control corruption scandal show that current accountability safeguards remain insufficient to prevent the misuse of...
Reforms in public procurement, infrastructure oversight, and accountability must be fully carried out to ensure that the billion-peso flood-control corruption scandal does not happen again and those responsible are made to answer, according to four governance and business groups. In a joint...
The Social Security System (SSS) commenced the early rollout of the second tranche of its Pension Reform Program, advancing the scheduled benefit increase by three months to provide immediate financial relief to 4.1 million state pensioners. The state-run pension fund announced on Tuesday, June 2,...
The Justice Reform Initiative (JRI) joined the growing opposition from the private sector against the recent attempt by the Senate majority bloc to allow lawmakers to vote remotely, which the group warned could have serious consequences for the upcoming impeachment trial. JRI, an umbrella group of...
A newly-formed opposition coalition to the current administration is using the "unity" catchphrase that was made popular by President Marcos. Former House Speaker and Davao del Norte 1st district Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez placed the spotlight on the so-called "RAGE Coalition" in a Facebook post on...
As the Department of Education (DepEd) prepares to implement a three-term academic calendar for School Year (SY) 2026–2027, Catholic schools are raising concerns over potential challenges. This has prompted the Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines (CEAP) and the CBCP Episcopal...
The Department of Education (DepEd) is pushing a major shift in how the Philippine school year is structured, introducing what it calls a “Three-Term School Calendar”—a reform aimed at addressing long-standing issues in instructional time, teacher workload, and learning recovery. In a briefer...
A group of education workers on Wednesday, March 25, rejected the Department of Education’s (DepEd) defense of its proposed three-term school calendar, warning that the reform could further burden teachers while failing to address systemic issues in the education sector. READ: ...
Teachers’ organizations on Monday, March 23, expressed sharply contrasting positions on the planned three-term school calendar and three-grading period system of the Department of Education (DepEd), a major reform set to begin in School Year (SY) 2026–2027, with one group cautiously supportive...
The approved shift to a trimester system in basic education, as proposed by the Department of Education (DepEd) beginning School Year (SY) 2026–2027, has triggered a wider debate: Can changing the Philippine school calendar improve learning outcomes, or does it overlook deeper systemic issues...
