Education

A P7-billion increase has been proposed for the budget of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). MANILA, Philippines – A P7-billion increase has been proposed for the budget of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED).

One of the issues always raised about formal education in the Philippines is its inability to supply students and graduates with the skills that employers are looking for. This is called the “mismatch” between what schools supply and what enterprises demand. Companies have to spend time and money training the fresh graduates that they hire.

The law comes as the Department of Education works on its ‘last mile’: bringing the schools to where the learners are MANILA, Philippines – President Benigno Aquino III recently signed a law that creates a “learner-centered and flexible” open high school system in the Philippines.

Philippine colleges and universities have to make ‘hard decisions’ whether to increase graduate programs, or develop niches in the undergraduate programs in order to produce the manpower needed in the ASEAN region

Comparison will be inevitable in a post-ASEAN integration era. How are rankings influencing the Philippines’ higher education sector?

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has identified the types of students who could be permitted to enroll in college despite the implementation of the K to 12 program, which will add two years in basic education starting next year.

By Isagani Cruz (The Philippine Star), July 2, 2015 During the transition period when there will be fewer or no freshmen in college, college teachers who have master’s degrees will be eligible for Commission on Higher Education (CHED) scholarships to take up doctoral studies here or abroad.

All first year students at the University of Technology Sydney could soon be required to take a compulsory maths course in an attempt to give them some numerical thinking skills.

According to Department Order No. 9, s. 2015 issued by Secretary of Education Armin Luistro, the official school year begins on June 1, 2015 and ends April 1, 2016.

Later this year, the UN will set the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals. These goals will follow on from the previous Millennium Development Goals. The plethora of targets that is likely to emerge will make it hard to use them either as policy levers for change or as a means of charting progress. Instead, because knowledge…

Most schools open next month (with the exception of colleges and universities, which are moving their opening dates to August to align with the international school calendar).

Militant youth groups criticized the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) for allegedly being lenient on higher education institutions (HEIs) that intend to raise tuition this coming school year. “CHED’s claim that it has a strict mechanism in deciding tuition hike applications is nothing but a cacophony of lies,” National Union of Students of the Philippines…

The business community is forming a united front against attempts to scrap the K to 12 Program. Instead of stopping the implementation of the program, big business groups in the country want the government to help the private sector deal with the effects of the reform in the educational system.

TO begin with, let me set my assumptions straight. “Strictly foreign policy” is non-existent, anti-thesis and non-sequitur in a highly interdependent world in the 21st century. In fact, foreign policy is simply a function and extension of domestic policy in the pursuit of national interest and mobilization of national potential. In this regard, national interest…

Listed Phinma Corp. is expanding its education portfolio with the acquisition of Cebu’s Southwestern University, giving it a solid footprint in the region. Phinma said in a stock exchange filing Thursday that it had acquired a 56.83-percent stake in Southwestern University for P1.9 billion. The move will increase the company’s school enrollment by about 27…

​After years of rigorous planning and consultations with education stakeholders, the Department of Education (DepEd) has identified and mapped more than 5,800 public schools set to offer Senior High School (SHS) in 2016 nationwide as part of its continued preparations for the full implementation of the K to 12 program. Over the last several years,…

TARLAC CITY — President Benigno Aquino III on Friday pledged government support for teachers and employees who will lose their jobs due to the implementation of the K to 12 program. In a speech before students and teachers of the Tarlac National High School, Aquino said the government is already studying how it can provide…

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) is ready to defend its revised college general education curriculum, which is the current subject of a petition for certiorari and prohibition before the Supreme Court (SC). “We will await the request of the Supreme Court to respond to the petition and will prepare an appropriate…

IN our last conversation, we focused on the first two education priorities of Asean 2015. What we suggested were a mix of Asean-related activities in and outside formal classes, extending our reach to our various communities through civic engagement. Also as academics, that we enhance our scholarship on the Filipino through literature written by Filipinologists.…

[three_fourth_last](CNN Philippines) — It’s been nearly three years since the government began implementing its K-12 educational reform program — but the policy continues to have its share of detractors.

MANILA – The 16,296,231 textbooks that the Department of Education (DepEd) bought for P608.7 million for its school year 2011-2012 textbook replenishment project under the old curriculum have become obsolete because of the shift to the K to 12 program.

The Department of Education (DepEd) does not believe that “one size fits all.” If you read the curriculum guides on its website, as well as the DepEd orders relevant to the curriculum, you will see that the government has taken a lot of pains to allow individual public and private schools to tailor their curriculum…

MANILA, Philippines – A lawmaker has asked the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) to explain how it plans to use its proposed P29-billion transition fund for teachers who will be affected by the transition to the K to 12 basic education curriculum.

It’s graduation time for many schools this week. The Commission on Higher Education reported that 553,706 college students will graduate this school year. Let’s hope the figures don’t pull up the unemployment rate which was 6.6% in the first quarter of 2015 from 6.00% in the fourth quarter of 2014 (according to the National Statistics…

MANILA – Some 39,000 teachers and 14,000 non-teaching acedemic personnel will lose their jobs over a span of five years in the “worst case scenario” as the Department of Education fully implements the K to 12 education program, DepEd Secretary Bro. Armin Luistro said Wednesday.

MANILA, Philippines – President Aquino signed this year three laws seeking to reinforce education reforms in the country. The President in the latter part of the year simultaneously approved the Ladderized Education Act, Iskolar ng Bayan Act of 2014 and the Open Distance Learning Act or Republic Act 10650.

President Aquino has signed a law providing scholarship benefits to poor but deserving students from public high schools. Republic Act 10648, or the Iskolar ng Bayan Act of 2014, was signed by Aquino last Thursday after it was approved by the Senate and the House of Representatives on Sept. 23 and 24, respectively.

MANILA, Philippines – Out-of-school Filipinos numbering 1.258 million aged 15 to 30 are giving their future a second chance by joining Abot Alam, a nationwide back-to-school campaign of the Department of Education (DepEd) and the National Youth Commission (NYC), supported by Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) through its value brand, Talk ‘N Text (TNT).

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States still dominates the annual ranking of 800 schools that help international students pick where to enroll

Administrators of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) must by now, since it has been a year since it was promulgated, have started following what the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) ordered them to do through CMO 20, series of 2013.