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...
Believing that youth vote can influence the country’s political landscape, the Department of Education (DepEd) led the nationwide youth voter registration campaign for the May 2022 polls. (DepEd Facebook page) Dubbed as “Pulse of the Youth: National Voter Registration Campaign for the 2022...
The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has conferred university status to the Cotabato City State Polytechnic College (CCSPC) after it had complied with the agency's standards. CHED Chairman Prospero De Vera III (Photo from CHED) Republic Act No. 10585 was passed in the House of Representatives...
The Department of Education (DepEd) is offering a research grant amounting to P500,000 to its qualified personnel who will submit proposals in line with the theme “Supporting and Assessing Learning Continuity" and "Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB MLE) Materials and Development."...
The unused scholarship funds amounting to P1.7 billion will be returned to the government coffers, the Science Education Institute (SEI) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has assured. (DOST-SEI) DOST-SEI Director Dr. Josette Biyo assured the public that the funds will be remitted...
KCFI given the Outstanding CSR Project in Education Knowledge Channel Foundation’s (KCFI) “School at Home” campaign, which made possible distance learning during the pandemic using Knowledge Channel’s platforms on-air, online, and offline was adjudged “Outstanding CSR Project in...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid For some time now, early studies of Philippine education had shown in several assessments that much needs to be done in reforming the system so that it can begin to catch up with the more progressive countries in the region. These studies are the Monroe survey...
For the upcoming School Year (SY) 2021-2022, the Department of Education’s (DepEd) School-Based Feeding Program (SBFP) is expected to benefit 3.1 million learners. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) DepEd Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones expressed the agency’s commitment to continue implementing the...
State-owned Social Security System (SSS) said its educational loans increased by more than half in the first semester of the year due to additional expenses incurred by students for flexible learning amid the pandemic. In a statement on Friday, July 23, Aurora C. Ignacio, SSS president and chief...
Education will be one of the main advocacies of Cardinal Jose Advincula in the Archdiocese of Manila. Cardinal Jose Advincula (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) The Cardinal, who is known for establishing mission stations and mission schools in remote villages in his previous assignments, revealed this...
A total of 221 Filipino professors, academics, and education workers from various universities here and abroad signed a unity statement to call for an end to President Duterte's “misrule.” Academics Unite for Democracy and Human Rights The unity statement of the academic sector was released on...
(ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) To provide a safer avenue for teaching and non-teaching personnel to share information and status of their vaccination against coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Department of Education (DepEd) developed its own mobile app. “We decided to create this platform to...
