The online Asian Family Enterprise Excellence Conference (AFEEC) 2021 being held this week (June 25-26, 2021) expects to draw some 1,500 attendees. png-AFEEC-e1623055650974 The virtual gathering, which features 45 international experts, researchers and corporate leaders, focuses on how Asian family...
Senator Joel Villanueva on Sunday called out the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) and asked that it reconsider its decision to postpone the licensure board examinations for psychologists, psychometricians and other professions scheduled this year to next year. Villanueva said the PRC...
It has been over a year since the still ongoing COVID-19 pandemic disrupted normal life. Among those institutions that have been gravely affected is the country’s education system. In an effort to ensure that the needs of learners are not neglected in this so-called new normal, the Department of...
Let's talk about the CHED-proposed new normal for tertiary level education TECH TEACH A teacher answers a call from a student in need of assistance on distance learning through a hotline program, amid the COVID-19 outbreak, in Taguig City on October 7, 2020 (Photo by Eloisa Lopez | Edit by the...
As the COVID-19 pandemic triggered restrictive quarantine measures, schools were shuttered in consonance with national government policy not to allow in-person learning that would place the health and safety of elementary and high school students at great risk. This resulted in the postponement...
The Department of Education (DepEd) has committed to harness technology as part of the country’s preparation for the education’s new normal. (Department of Education) This was stressed by DepEd Undersecretary for Administration Alain Del B. Pascua during the first-ever Asia Pacific Public...
Traditional face-to-face learning may no longer be applicable at the higher education level as the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) adopts a policy to implement Flexible Learning in the coming school years. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) “From now on, Flexible Learning will be the norm. There...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha-Colmenares I’m moving from the Motoring section to the Opinion page, but after decades of editing and writing motoring stories, I can’t shake off the motoring mind. I’m bringing that with me through the column title — Driving Thoughts. And the first driving...
Globe Telecom Inc. helped over 67,000 public school teachers and students navigate the digital learning space since the pandemic started, according to Chief Sustainability Officer and Senior Vice President for Corporate Communications Yoly Crisanto. The telco equipped them with P34 million worth of...
The new normal is here. It has changed the way we live, do business, work as professionals, socialize, worship, and seek leisure. Here’s how it has changed—or is about to change—the housing and property sector. WFH setups would become the norm. 1. It will change the addresses of many...
Manila Bulletin File Photo Throughout the country, quarantines are still in place as cities try to contain the virus. Most parents are afraid to let their kids go outside even for a little while, and no one knows how long it will last. Recently, there was confusion about whether kids are...
Martin Nievera (right) and Louie Ocampo Martin Nievera’s latest song entitled “A Brand New Christmas” was inspired by two words that we’ve all grown accustomed to hearing these days: new normal. “That’s the inspiration behind the whole song because everything now is dictating us, and...
