The Department of Education (DepED) on Monday, Nov. 14, welcomed the approval of the Senate for its 2023 budget. DepED / MB Visual Content Group Issuing a statement, DepED expressed gratitude to the Senate for approving the budget of the department and its attached agencies for the Fiscal Year (FY)...
Recognizing the importance of the continuous provision of quality learning resources (LR) which is “crucial in the successful implementation” of the K to 12 Basic Education Program, the Department of Education (DepED) has created a composite team to review the evaluation and procurement...
CEBU CITY – The City of Talisay in southern Cebu is building more e-learning centers where elementary and high school students can do their research. TALISAY City Mayor Samsam Gullas (center) poses for a groufie with constituents. (Mayor Gullas FB) Talisay Mayor Samsam Gullas said on Thursday,...
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...
“Martial Law is the right term. Corrections should be made to the modules.” These were the words used by Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Philippines when they pushed for the revision of modules that used the term “New Society” to describe “Martial Law.” The controversial module was...
There is a special person in every person’s life who goes by the name of “teacher.” Some met that special person in nursery school, most in elementary and high school, others in college. The memory of a special teacher comes around when there is a need to provide a solution to a problem, like...
“Shouldn’t we be taking advantage of the face-to-face classes for teachers to do accurate assessments of what the learners have and have not learned in the past years?” This was what Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Chairperson Vladimer Quetua said, hitting the Department of Education’s...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares We congratulate the Department of Education (DepEd) and its leadership, as well as the administrators and faculty of both public and private schools. Congratulations are in order because, finally, in most of the country, our schools are back to in-person,...
F inally! More than 50,000 schools nation wide will open their doors today, Aug. 22, 2022 — a welcome step to normalcy after the two-year disruption caused by the global pandemic, which saw both teachers and students (and their parents) enduring the highs and lows of online learning. The school...
The Department of Education (DepEd) was urged by an advocacy group to allow private schools the discretion, upon consultation with parents, to continue blended learning for School Year (SY) 2022-2023. (ALI VICOY / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) “We go back to that adage, ‘parents know...
A total of 129 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) at the Cebu City Jail Female Dorm graduated from the alternative learning system (ALS), the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) said on Thursday, Aug. 18. The ALS is a parallel learning system in the Philippines that provides opportunities...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian wants to institute a nationwide learning recovery program for students who may have been left behind in terms of education during the Covid-19 pandemic. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian Gatchalian, who chaired the Senate Committee on Basic Education, Arts, and Culture in the...
