Education

Published May 15, 2022, 9:05 PM by Merlina Hernando-Malipot The Department of Education (DepEd) is planning to complete the K to 12 curriculum enhancement in July this year to address congestion, redundancies, and overlaps in the current curriculum. “The 2022 Basic Education Curriculum is envisioned to be responsive and attuned to the dynamic changes in the…

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Coursera is looking to strengthen its presence in the Philippines after eye-popping growth in enrollment during the pandemic. Check out which courses Filipinos have been enrolling in here. pic.twitter.com/qPBscM8WYg — Warren de Guzman (@wddeguzman) November 17, 2021

by Merlina Hernando-Malipot, 17 Nov 2021, Manila Bulletin While teachers are ready for the partial reopening of schools during the pilot run of limited face-to-face classes, a group urged the government to protect their welfare by giving them less non-teaching duties.

by Romina Cabrera – The Philippine Star, 10 Nov 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Education said a million more learners have enrolled for the current school year compared to 2020 at the height of the pandemic.

By Kaithreen Cruz, 5 Nov 2021, Manila Times THE Philippines was given a five-star rating by the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) on its Remote Learning Readiness Index (RLRI).

By: Jane Bautista, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 4 Nov 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Education (DepEd) on Wednesday maintained that the daily 1-gigabyte data capacity provided to public school teachers was enough to access e-learning and department applications.

by Louise Maureen Simeon, The Philippine Star, 1 Nov 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The pandemic will push more children into learning poverty, especially in low and middle income countries like the Philippines, due to the prolonged closure of educational institutions, according to the World Bank.

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by Andrew J. Masigan – The Philippine Star, 13 Oct 2021 (Part 2) First, allow me to provide some context for those who missed the first installment of this series. The country is facing an educational crisis. In 2018,15-year-old Filipino students were ranked dead last in reading and second to the last in science and…

By: Ambeth R. Ocampo, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 6 Oct 2021 For those that could, work from home was a life-changing adjustment born out of pandemic lockdown. Online teaching was a challenge that could be delayed but not avoided so I took the Ateneo online course “Adaptive Design for Learning” and jumped straight into an online…

by Andrew J. Masigan – The Philippine Star, 6 Oct 2021 (Part 1) We are in the midst of an educational crisis. Philippine educational standards have deteriorated to such an extent that Filipino children are ranked the least proficient in reading, math and science among 87 nationalities evaluated. This was validated by global academic rating…

by Christian Deiparine – Philstar.com, 21 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — A network of private schools on Tuesday sought for financial aid from the government amid another low turnout in enrollment during the second year of distance learning in the country.

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3 goals 🎯3 months 📆3 other people 👤 Unlock the secret to learning here: — McKinsey & Company (@McKinsey) September 16, 2021

by Romina Cabrera – The Philippine Star, 16 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Over 26 million students have enrolled for the current school year, surpassing last year’s figures and indicating that learners who skipped classes are returning to the basic education system, according to the Department of Education.

by Philstar.com, 14 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Private school groups have urged the Senate to fast track the passage of a bill rectifying a tax rate hike on their members, as they said enrollment in their sector this year has plunged anew.

by Jimbo Owen B. Gulle, Manila Standard, 13 Sep 2021 With a year of distance and modular learning under their belt, students in public schools return to class today under a still-challenging setup, as the Philippines remains one of only two countries that has not conducted partial or full school reopening since the start of…

By Krixia Subingsubing, 7 Sep 2021 Less than a week before this year’s opening of classes, the number of enrolled students in both public and private schools have only reached 17.96 million thus far—or 45 percent less than last year’s 26.2 million students, according to the Department of Education (DepEd).

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by Estanislao C. Albano, Jr. casigayan@yahoo.com, The Philippine Star, 2 Sep 2021 True to its laughable pretense that there are no non-readers in high school despite strong evidence to the contrary, the Department of Education (DepEd) never refers to the need to identify and belatedly teach reading laggards to read in its preparations for the…

by Ranier Allan Ronda – The Philippine Star, 31 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Public school teachers yesterday bewailed the Department of Education (DepEd)’s conduct of a one-week virtual training for mentors before the opening of remote learning in public schools on Sept. 13.

by Philstar.com, 20 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The chairman of the Senate’s basic education panel will launch an inquiry into the Department of Education’s readiness for a prolonged distance learning scenario ahead of the opening of School Year 2021-2022.

by Rainier Allan Ronda (The Philippine Star), 10 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Education (DepEd) will start the enrollment period for school year 2021-2022 on Aug. 16, again with public school teachers expected to take the initiative in enlisting students to pursue remote learning.

by Cecille Suerte Felipe (The Philippine Star), 9 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — To improve the quality of basic education and learning outcomes of students, Sen. Sonny Angara is pushing a program that aims to produce the best teachers for the public school system in the country.

by Edilberto C. de Jesus, 7 Aug 2021 Not in or by itself. But, given the tightly-centralized structure of the system, an Education Commission (EdCom) is arguably essential to crafting a strategyʍand required by international assessment test results that showed the Philippines with the lowest student competencies in Science, Math, and Reading. It was thus…