Education

Four of ten fresh graduates and young jobseekers who apply for vacancies are not hired because they lack three key qualities—critical thinking, initiative and effective communication skills—which the People Management Association of the Philippines (PMAP) informed hundreds at a job fair in a mall in Makati on Friday.

Points out unequal access to higher learning Philippine college students stand off with police officers during a rally in in Quezon City, east of Manila on December 1, 2010. The students demanded that the administration should not cut the budget for state universities and colleges. According to the World Bank, inequality in terms of access…

MANILA, Philippines – The World Bank (WB) has called on the national government to push the grant of scholarships to deserving but poor students of public schools. It also called for the introduction of student loans and a review of the tuition fee structure in the public school system.

THE GOVERNMENT must address “disconnects” in the educational system for colleges and universities to fuel productivity, a World Bank official said yesterday, noting how educational financing must be aimed at improving skills and research in higher educational institutions.

SENSING hesitation from the Department of Education (DepEd) on using the child’s first language or the child’s mother tongue in teaching, a lawmaker championing the Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTBMLE) system has called on Sec. Armin Luistro to get rid of the old language of instruction and implement mother tongue-based teaching in the first 6…

MANILA, Philippines—In hopes of averting a catastrophe in the education system, a former education secretary has charted what she calls “fault lines” in education policy, drawing from her experience working under five Philippine presidents.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) will assess the English skills and other proficiencies of Grades 1 and 2 teachers in public schools to map out a training program to prepare them for the implementation of the Kindergarten to 12 (K-12) basic education curriculum (BEC).

THE Commission on Higher Education and the Department of Labor and Employment warned that the recent ruling of a Quezon City court granting PMI Colleges a preliminary injunction on the closure of its non-compliant BS Marine Transportation and BS Marine Engineering programs in October last year threatens the country’s P3-billion maritime industry.

MANILA, Philippines – More than 61,000 foreigners are enrolled in different schools in the Philippines, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said yesterday.

I give a lot of lectures on K to 12. At the beginning of each lecture, I give my cellphone number to the audience. They text me their questions while I am speaking, and I answer the questions in the course of my lecture. It is my way of getting instant feedback and adjusting my…

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A PARTY-LIST lawmaker has urged the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to reconsider its earlier proposal to scrap the “study now, pay later” program despite its low repayment rate, it was learned on Monday.

The Department of Education (DepEd) has begun the shift to the K to 12 educational system, which will add two years to the current national basic education program. The new system is meant to tackle the many problems plaguing Philippine education: poor quality, poor internal inefficiency, inadequate faculty credentials and facilities, and a congested curriculum…

MANILA, Philippines – The new enhanced curriculum for Grade 1 and 1st year high school students under the K (Kindergarten) + 12 Basic Education Curriculum (BEC) by the Department of Education which will be introduced in school year 2012 to 2013, will be more “enjoyable” and more comprehensive to students. For one, DepEd said that…

THE Department of Education has released P115 million financial assistance to 153 secondary schools that offer special education. Education Secretary Armin Luistro said DepEd earlier released funds to around 278 elementary SPED centers.

MANILA, Philippines – With more than P31-billion increase in its budget for 2012, the Department of Education (DepEd) is now ready to implement its ambitious K+12 basic education curriculum (BEC) plan.

PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) has recognized three regions in Mindanao as having the most number of public high schools (HSs) with zero dropout rate in the country in school year (SY) 2010-2011.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) will allocate more funds for the development of learning aids and materials in the various dialects as it seeks to bolster mother tongue-based multilingual education in public preschools and elementary schools all over the country.

THE Department of Education (DepEd) insists that the literacy rate in the Philippines is quite high compared to other Asian countries over the past two years and country has succeeded in expanding its education in quantitative terms despite recent studies that showed that the education system has been challenged by different emerging trends.

IT used to be that a good education meant a ticket out of poverty. For a lot of people that hope still rings true, but unfortunately those who need a good education the most are the ones who can’t afford it.

Unfortunately, across most of the Asia-Pacific region, the returns on higher education are not high enough when viewed in terms of economic returns. The parallel problems of unfilled job vacancies together with unemployed tertiary graduates showed that higher education was not yielding the expected benefits.

EDUCATORS and teachers on Thursday expressed alarm over the continuous decline in the percentage of successful examinees for Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) nwith a measly one of every five examinees passing, as the 2011 LET indicated.

MANILA, Philippines – A young Filipino mathematician emerged as one of the individual champions in a tough World Mathematics Team Championship held at the Jiuhua Resort and Convention Center held in Beijing, China, from Nov. 2 to 6.

MORE than six million young Filipinos are out of school because of the high cost of education, according to the National Statistics Office (NSO).

MANILA, Philippines — The House Committee on Higher and Technical Education is due to come up with a substitute bill that seeks to strengthen student loan programs to assist poor students.

Director-General Irina Bokova of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) commended the Philippines for its dynamic work in education at the sidelines of the General Conference in Paris.

THE Department of Education (DepEd) revealed on Wednesday that they were able to reduce the number of high school students dropping out with nearly 2,000 secondary schools nationwide registering a zero dropout rate this school year compared to 56 schools last year.

The House committee on higher and technical education (CHTE), with its chairman, Aurora Rep. Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara presiding, convened the stakeholders in the education sector Wednesday in an effort to re-assess and strengthen the Study-Now-Pay-Later Program (SNPLP) of Commission on Higher Education (Ched) for it to be more responsive to the needs of tertiary…

PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino 3rd on Tuesday announced that the hiring of 13,000 new public teachers next year and the construction of 66,000 classrooms until 2016 are on track.

PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III has issued a new policy and guidelines allowing schools to increase their tuition and other charges next year to help them make more money, Budget Secretary Florencio Abad said Monday.