Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Tuesday, January 17 said he expects the Department of Education (DepEd) to release an “honest-to-goodness” report at the end of this month on the current state of the Philippines’ basic education. Gatchalian, chairman of the Senate Committee on Basic Education,...
The Second Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM II) is all set to perform an evaluation on the Philippine education sector’s performance starting January 2023. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, co-chairperson of EDCOM II, said this will boost the Marcos administration’s effort to effectively...
As the country continues to face a learning crisis, the advocacy group Philippine Business for Education (PBEd) welcomed on Thursday, Nov. 10, the designation of the conferees of Congress in the Second Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM II). Students of Corazon Aquino Elementary School in...
The bicameral conference committee has approved the proposal to create the Second Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM II), which would pave the way for another set of reforms that will address the crisis hounding the country’s education sector. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, chair of the...
Advocacy group Philippine Business for Education (PBEd) on Thursday, Nov. 4, called on legislators to pass the Education Commission (EDCOM) Bill in the remaining months of the 18th Congress. (ALI VICOY / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) “We have a small window of opportunity to pass the bill before...
National University's holds limited face-to-face classes for Medical Technologists (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) Since last year, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) said that the country’s education system has been trying to adjust to the realities of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)...
College students roam around the campus before the pandemic (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN / FILE PHOTO) For the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), responding and adapting to the changes brought by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are among the challenges that confront the country’s higher...
Classroom teaching and learning before the COVID-19 pandemic. (RIO DELUVIO / MANILA BULLETIN / FILE PHOTO) For Education Secretary Leonor Briones, the biggest challenge in the education sector to date is quality. During the public forum entitled “Revisiting the EDCOM of 1991: Continuities and...
In response to the learning crisis in the country, advocacy group Philippine Business for Education (PBEd) urged President Duterte to certify as urgent the Education Commission (EDCOM) Joint Resolution. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) “We are in a learning crisis unlike any other,” said PBEd...
Eleven groups on Thursday, June 10, pushed for the immediate convening of a multi-sectoral Educational Commission ( EdCom ) to urgently and “seriously address” the ongoing learning crisis in the country. Students attend online classes as schools remain closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic (MANNY...
An advocacy group on Thursday, May 27 commended the committee approval of House Joint Resolutions which aims to create a Congressional Oversight Committee on Education or EdCom. Before schools were shut down due to COVID-19, students learn their lessons by attending face-to-face classes. (ALI VICOY...
In order to address the learning crisis in the country, the Philippine private sector underscored the need to convene a Joint Congressional Education Commission or “EdCom.” RIO DELUVIO / MANILA BULLETIN Advocacy group Philippine Business for Education (PBEd), in a statement issued Tuesday,...
