Education

MANILA, Philippines – Eleven years ago, member-states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), including the Philippines, envisioned an ASEAN University born from strong linkages of leading universities and institutions in the region.

MANILA, Philippines – Island thinking. To each his own. Quite literally, our higher education institutions (HEIs) are taking competition too seriously that we’re moving at a snail’s pace toward internationalization.

The high cost of education only came third on the list of reasons many Filipino children are not attending school, according to the National Statistics Office (NSO).

15.4% of household budget goes to education MANILA, Philippines—FIlipinos, in general, believe more strongly in the correlation between education and having better employment prospects compared to the global average, according to the latest survey by Nielsen.

FILIPINOS spend more for education compared to other nationalities, according to the latest Global Survey of Education Aspirations released by market research firm Nielsen Holdings NV.

MANILA, Philippines—The country’s adoption of the K-12 education program is expected to result in a wave of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) among operators of academic institutions.

In the current (now old) General Education Curriculum for all college students, there are Filipino and English language subjects. In the new General Education Curriculum (GEC), there is no subject devoted only to Filipino or to English.

The third of eight required core courses in the new General Education Curriculum (GEC) for all Philippine colleges and universities is “The Contemporary World / Ang Kasalukuyang Daigdig.”

MANILA, Philippines—The Commission on Higher Education has come up with a list of “priority courses” in a bid to steer college students toward degrees that the labor market needs.

MANILA, Philippines – After scrutinizing the 2014 budget for education, Sen. Ralph Recto revealed yesterday that the government is expected to hire 33,194 teachers, build 43,183 classrooms, and buy 42.6 million books next year.

MANILA, Philippines – Prof Winnie Monsod, popularly known as “Mareng Winnie” on television, came to a forum on the controversial socialized tuition and financial assistance program (STFAP) of the University of the Philippines (UP), unaware that it was a debate. But among the speakers who argued for and against the controversial STFAP, she was the…

Last April, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle delivered a speech at a conference on “German Businesses: Pioneers of the Dual System of Vocational Training Abroad.” In that speech, he called the German dual-tech system “a real export hit Made in Germany.”

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) announced Monday that it is now opening the registration for Accreditation and Equivalency test takers from July 4 to August 2 for the exams to be administered in October this year in 17 regions nationwide.

Malacañang’s keeper of the purse once likened the Philippine education system to a frog in a kettle put to a boil. “The frog will not know it is dying until it is too late,” Florencio “Butch” Abad told me in 2007, two years after he left the Arroyo administration in a mass desertion of Cabinet…

A TOTAL of 1,257 institutions of learning—903 private elementary and high schools and 354 private colleges and universities—have been allowed to raise their tuition and other fees this year.

MANILA, Philippines – The Social Security System (SSS) has nearly P7 billion waiting to be tapped under its educational assistance program even as the nation tries to come to terms with the suicide of a University of the Philippines-Manila freshman over lack of tuition money.

MANILA – More Filipino women are graduating from college than men, with business administration cited as the most common field of study for Filipinas, a National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) report said Wednesday.

IN 2011, Education Secretary Armin Luistro said that the Department of Education (DepEd) lacks 66,800 classrooms. He and our nation’s leaders promised that the classrooms shortage in the Philippines would be solved by 2014. At the rate, the present administration is moving, I have a nagging feeling that the school infrastructure crisis won’t be solved…

A HIGH-ranking United Nations (UN) official on Monday said that the Philippines needs strong education politicians to improve the quality of education.

The education sector in the Philippines and the rest of Asia is taking on a greater role in addressing unemployment and other labor market issues region-wide via curriculum upgrades, academe-industry collaboration and research.

“The world’s budget English teacher” can be found in the Philippines, according to a report by BBC News published on their website Monday. While students from all over the world can get their language education from the United States, the United Kingdom, or Australia, more and more are heading to the Philippine shores because of…

MANILA, Philippines – At least P500 million has been earmarked for the state universities and colleges'(SUCs) research and development, the Commission on Higher Education announced Tuesday.

The Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2012 of the K-to-12 bill, which would add two more years to basic education cycle has hurdled the House Basic Education panel on Wednesday. Via an overwhelming vote of 25 to two, the House Committee on Basic Education voted for the approval of the still unnumbered Substitute Bill to…

Teachers face severe challenges in different parts of the world and are still under pressure to produce results. As the profession marks World Teachers Day, two teachers working thousands of miles apart tell their stories.

The ILO Director-General calls for urgent action to make teaching an attractive career once again. GENEVA (ILO News) – The economic crisis has strongly affected working conditions and salaries for many teachers, said ILO Director-General Guy Ryder in a statement issued ahead of World Teachers Day.

MANILA, Philippines – The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) yesterday reported an increasing trend in the number of graduates and passers in licensure examination in what were previously identified as “unsubscribed” professions.

ACT Teachers Rep. Antonio Tinio decried the lack of funding for new faculty of the 110 state universities and colleges (SUCs) throughout the country in the proposed 2013 national budget during Wednesday’s plenary deliberations at the House of Representatives.

MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman and 3 other top educational institutions in the country fell in the 2012 World University Rankings list published Tuesday by education and career network Quacquarelli Symonds.

The government is being urged to spend more on education and skills training, and to keep granting conditional cash transfers to the poor in the run-up to 2015 to ensure the Philippines reap the economic benefits of its entry to the so-called “demographic window.”

MANILA, Philippines – Unlike the medal drought that Team Philippines experienced in the London Olympic Games, young Filipino math wizards bagged more than 200 medals in three different international competitions.