Education

MANILA, Philippines – AIESEC is an international non-profit organization that provides young people with leadership opportunities to develop themselves into global leaders with an urge to make a difference in society. AIESEC in the Philippines is currently present in eight schools nationwide and establishing chapters in eight more. Founded in 1968, AIESEC in the Philippines…

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) documented more than 1,700 cases of child abuse and bullying in school year 2013-2014 after Republic Act 10627, the Anti-Bullying Act, was passed last year.

MANILA, Philippines – The first batch of Senior High School graduates in the country are now reaping the benefits of the additional two years in the basic education system, the Department of Education (DepEd) said yesterday.

As president of a small college, I have nightmares about 2016. In that year, my college will not have first-year students, because all Grade 10 students will be going to Grade 11. The next year, 2017, we will still not have first-year students, because the Grade 11 students will be going to Grade 12. We…

For some students of the University of the Philippines, the unexpected long vacation was the biggest boon resulting from the sudden change in the school calendar, from June to March of previous years, to this schoolyear’s August to May time frame.

MANILA, Philippines—The Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) has lifted its moratorium against opening new programs on business administration (BA), hotel and restaurant management (HRM) and information technology (IT) by next school year.

With economic integration looming in 2015, ASEAN is attracting the investment community’s attention, given its combined GDP of US$2.1 trillion and 600-million strong consumer market and labor base. Vast fishing stocks, wide arable lands, and untapped mineral and gas deposits — not to mention an expanding middle class and ready access to some of the…

(Updated 11:14 a.m.) In the last three years, Grade 7 students of Caloocan High School had to buy workbooks for their Filipino subject as there were no learning materials issued by the Department of Education delivered to their school.

PASIG CITY – The Department of Education (DepEd) reminded all school authorities that collection of any fees during enrolment and the first days of class is strictly prohibited.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) will hire more than 33,000 teachers this school year to address teacher shortage in public schools.

Late Monday evening, ASEAN DNA –a Facebook page dedicated to producing infographics about member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) –released what has since become a highly talked-about chart that shows Filipinos as having some of the lowest IQs in the region:

The University of the Philippines remained the best in the country, based on the 2014 QS University Rankings for Asia. The annual list, which highlights the top 300 universities in Asia, had UP at 63, four places up from 2013.

MANILA, Philippines – A total of 353 private universities and colleges have filed petitions to increase their tuition and other fees this coming school year, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) said yesterday.

MANILA – The Commission on Higher Education is advising against a change in the academic calendar, saying the country’s weather patterns do not justify a shift in the start of classes from June to August.

The graduates of 2014 will be marching soon. My focus today is on the private tertiary educational system. “Statistics.” About three million students are enrolled in the tertiary educational sector every year. The Philippine Yearbook of Statistics in 2011 states that for the academic year 2009-2010 a total of 2.7 million students were enrolled at…

MANILA, Philippines – A group of education reform advocates called on the government to close down weak-performing teacher education institutions (TEIs) following the low-passing rates in the licensure examination for teachers (LET) in the past five years.

BACOLOD CITY , Philippines – At least 18 private and public colleges and universities in Region 6 (Western Visayas) have applied for tuition hike for academic year 2014-2015.

MANILA, Philippines – Instead of sourcing funds from the pork barrel of lawmakers, eligible students will now get college scholarships from the Commission on Higher Education (CHED).

MANILA, Philippines – Private educational institutions welcomed the government’s plan for a voucher system in giving financial assistance to incoming students in senior high school under the K to 12 program.

The oldest profession in the world can count students as laborers. These are girls who moonlight as prostitutes or escorts to pay their way through school. Prosti-tuition, as it is called, has earned its own entry in the urban dictionary. Typically, peak season for this tuition-payment scheme is during enrollment period or right before final…

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has expressed support for a four-day school week in Metro Manila, which aims to ease traffic once the construction of 15 major road projects begins.

MANILA, Philippines – With traffic jams expected to worsen this year due to infrastructure construction, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Francis Tolentino is pushing for a four-day school week.

MANILA, Philippines – In terms of primary education and health, the Philippines is the 3rd least competitive among 10 Southeast Asian countries, according to the 2013-2014 World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Competitiveness report.

MANILA – The shift in the academic calendar of the University of the Philippines (UP) System (except UP Diliman) from June-March to August-May paves the way for its “internationalization.”

MANILA — The Commission on Audit wants sanctions imposed on private contractors and field officers of the Department of Education (DepEd) for failing to meet the target number of new classrooms in 2012.

MANILA — The House of Representatives has cited 24 universities and colleges due to the exceptional performances of their graduates in the last two licensure exams for elementary and high school instructors.

MANILA, Philippines – With 23 million students and only 600 health personnel in public schools, how will the Department of Education (DepEd) make sure students are fit for school?

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) is “a little concerned” as more and more higher education institutions (HEIs) express their intention to synchronize their academic calendars with the rest of the world. At first, CHED Chairperson Dr Patricia Licuanan found it all right when the University of the Philippines (UP) system and…

The quest for education quality in fact propels all education reform initiatives. That being said, educators will be the first to say that arriving at a universal definition of education quality is actually more elusive than, say, achieving specific reform goals such as functional literacy at Grade 3, or the alignment of higher education competencies…

ANILA, Philippines – When it comes to the impending ASEAN economic integration in 2015, the Philippines is cramming things it should have done a decade ago because bureaucracy got in the way then, the education chief said.