Education

THE Palace is considering spending P1 billion to train students and faculty in state universities and colleges to work in call centers and other outsourced services, Budget Secretary Florencio Abad said Thursday.

MANILA, Philippines – Public school teachers provided with computer laptops and basic computer skills training are using it for administrative clerical tasks, but not to enhance their teaching in the classrooms.

Filipino student activists have found a more engaging way to call attention to themselves than the issues they are supposed to be fighting for. They call it “planking,” or throwing themselves on busy roads where they just lie there and stop the free flow of traffic. And perhaps die there accidentally if, unfortunately, speed maniacs…

Thanks to this administration’s incomprehensible decision to cut subsidy for state colleges and universities, we’re seeing a resurgence of student activism. Thousands of students from all over the country walked out of their classes last week. In Manila, they converged at Mendiola, reminiscent of the heady days when the student protest movement was a major…

The story is going around that P-Noy got visibly irked and walked out of the room after the current education secretary gave a ridiculously low figure of new classrooms built in the first year of the Aquino administration. That explains why it was rumored the third cabinet member causing P-Noy headaches is the education secretary.

MANILA, Philippines – Thousands of students and teachers from different state universities and colleges (SUCs) yesterday walked out from their classes to press the government for higher state subsidy for education and social services.

The budget cuts, which some students of state universities and colleges (SUCs) alleged and have protested against, are the opposite of what has been proposed to Congress, according to Budget Secretary Florencio Abad, who noted that SUCs will get 10.1 percent more next year.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) has acquired some P330-million worth of science equipment, instruments and learning tools that will be distributed to public high schools in a bid to improve the quality of science education for public school children.

Education Secretary Armin Luistro yesterday clarified the Department of Education’s (DepEd’s) proposed K+12 program will give high school students a chance to work or gain immediate work experience.

THE monthly government dole to poor families in its conditional cash transfer program has done little to reduce the elementary school dropout rate, Education Secretary Armin Luistro said Monday.

No to Violence – Department of Education is now getting serious at eliminating violence in schools, which include corporal punishment and bullying. MANILA, Philippines — he Department of Education will soon come out with a more comprehensive child protection policy to shield the child against abuse, exploitation and discrimination including bullying and other forms of…

The government must focus on quality education as the most vital vehicle to maximize human resource development, starting right on basic primary education.

Philippine education officials are drawing up a more comprehensive child protection policy to protect pupils against bullying, abuse, exploitation and discrimination in school.

MANILA, Philippines – Education Secretary Armin Luistro reported yesterday that the Department of Education (DepEd) had doubled the number of public science elementary schools from 100 to 200 this school year to expand the elementary education program with a strong emphasis on science.

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Some may deride the methodology of the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings as mere “Dr. Kwak Kwak” — meaning it is not really reliable — but the recent results showing that none of our universities made it to the Top 300 rankings is disturbing just the same. In contrast, our Asian neighbors — Hong…

SHARJAH: Two Philippine schools in the UAE have begun implementing Manila’s ambitious yet long overdue basic education reforms, the “K + 12 Educational Highway” (K12EH) for the academic year 2011-2012.

There is reason to be upset by the fact that none of our top universities made it to the top 300 educational institutions worldwide. It is a sad commentary not only on the state of our educational system but also on the quality of our human capital as we attempt to compete in a globalized…

■ No Filipino university makes it to the top 300 schools in the latest QS World Rankings PHILIPPINE universities saw their rankings drop in the latest annual QS World University Rankings in 2011—with none of them emerging in the top 300 list—and apparently after the Aquino administration slashed its budget for higher education this year.

MANILA, Philippines – The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) yesterday urged students to avoid five oversubscribed college courses to increase their chances of getting employment.

MANILA, Philippines — The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) has urged young Filipinos to stay out of heavily overpopulated college courses if they want to increase their chances of obtaining gainful employment after graduation.

If they still fail this time, they might as well “chalk” it up to experience. Education Secretary Armin Luistro said his department could only meet the demand of public school teachers for an increase in their so-called chalk allowance if Congress would approve its proposed budget for 2012.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) has taken steps to strengthen environmental education in public and private schools to boost government efforts in dealing with climate change.

THE DEPARTMENT of Budget and Management (DBM) has released P3.07 billion to the Department of Education (DepEd) to provide more basic educational facilities throughout the country this year, a statement said on Friday.

WHILE the 2012 allocation for the Department of Education was increased by P31.5 billion, the proposed P1.816-trillion budget for the year earmarked zero budget for the capital outlay of state universities and colleges (SUCs), a lawmaker said on Friday.

MANILA, Philippines – Schools and universities in the Philippines have been included in the list of beneficiaries of the foundation of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair for religious and cultural awareness as well as education programs.

The Bureau of Immigration (BI) reported yesterday more than 26,000 aliens are presently studying in various schools throughout the country, making the Philippines as the major education center for foreign students.

NEW YORK – Higher education leads to better paying jobs and by 2018 almost two thirds of all occupations in the United States will require a college degree, according to a new study.

Mona Valisno’s forthcoming book, “The Nation’s Journey to Greatness: Five Decades of the Philippine Educational System,” contains a proposal to solve one of the vexing problems with the K-12 program, namely, the spectre of private Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) not having incoming first year students for two straight years (with a ripple effect in later…

School owners or administrators are facing penalty if found guilty of prohibiting students with delinquent tuition to take the mid-term or final examinations.