Education

If most Filipinos find it hard and laborious to visit libraries to read books and other materials, then “let’s bring libraries closer to our people,” Camarines Sur Rep. Diosdado “Dato” Macapagal Arroyo said.

MANILA, Philippines – A congressman today proposed a measure that prohibits schools from preventing students with delinquent tuition fees to take examinations. Manila 2nd District Rep. Carlo Lopez filed House Bill 4559, which declares as unlawful the act of prohibiting students from taking any examinations due to their failure to pay tuition fees.

MANILA, Philippines – Young Filipino math wizards won their share of medals, including a gold and several silvers and bronzes, in the 14th Po Leung Kok Primary Mathematics World Contest (PMWC) held in Hong Kong last week. Winning a gold medal for Team Philippines and leading the medal winners was Farrell Eldrian Wu, a Grade…

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Budget and Management has released P251.6 million to implement the Department of Education’s Madrasah Education program. The program aims to enhance the educational development of Filipino Muslims.

MANILA, Philippines – The government has released a total of P251.6 million to the Department of Education (DepEd) for the nationwide implementation of the Madrasah Education Program, which aims to enhance educational development of Filipino Muslims.

ALMOST 70 percent of college graduates in the country failed in the 2010 professional licensure examinations given by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), a lawmaker revealed Thursday.

THE University of the Philippines and the Ateneo de Manila University are among the top 50 English-teaching universities in the world, Quacquarelli Symonds, a London-based company specializing in education and study abroad, said Wednesday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) is estimated to need as much as P45 billion in additional funds if it will fully subsidize Grade 11 or Year 1 of the two-year senior high school to be set up under the ambitious K (Kindergarten) +12 Basic Education Curriculum (BEC) plan.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) wants to implement its ambitious K (Kindergarten) +12 Basic Education Curriculum (BEC) plan as early as possible but is being prevented by “realities” such as the passage of an enabling law and other necessities.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education’s (DepEd) timetable in implementing the K (Kindergarten) +12 Basic Education Curriculum (BEC) plan, which seeks to add two years to the current 10-year BEC, was described as too slow, with the additional two years of senior high school to be set up only by 2016.

TAKING stern action against erring higher education institutions (HEI), the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has directed 32 colleges and universities to phase-out or close their deficient courses after monitoring and evaluation showed they are not adhering to the standards and guidelines of the Commission.

THE House of Representatives on third and final reading have approved a five percent discount for poor students in the secondary and tertiary levels.

Cagayan Rep. Jack Enrile yesterday reiterated calls for Malacañang to review the implementation of the K+12 program as he pushed new rules that would make school administrators more accountable for the quality of education both in public and private schools throughout the country.

ANGELES CITY, Philippines – Public schools nationwide have been holding classes for two weeks now, but where’s the chalk for the blackboard?

During the 1986-1992 governance of President Corazon C. Aquino, the Department of Education was addressed as the Department of Education, Culture and Sports, and was headed by Dr. Lourdes Quisumbing.

MANY private schools would have started classes only this Monday. I heard that even in private schools a lot of parents were making frantic efforts to have their kids avoid being covered by the K+12 program of the Department of Education, unsure as they are when exactly the new system would take effect in private…

SEN. Antonio Trillanes 4th on Thursday called on the Senate to investigate the enhanced K+12 basic education program of the Department of Education (DepEd), saying that it would only worsen problems facing the country’s education sector.

DESPITE the uproar of student groups and lawmakers over alleged abuse in collection of miscellaneous fees, the Commission on Higher Education said there is no need for a law governing the collection of such fees.

MANILA, Philippines –  The House of Representatives approved on third and final reading yesterday a bill prohibiting the “no permit, no examination” policy in colleges, universities and vocational schools.

MANILA, Philippines –  The public school system lacks 143,281 classrooms this year, Aurora Rep. Juan Edgardo Angara said yesterday.

TWENTY-FIVE percent of private schools nationwide—or one in four—are considered “colorum” schools or those that have not registered with the Department of Education (DepEd), it was learned on Monday.

NO FORESIGHT: Another illustration of how slow officialdom thinks and acts is the recurring problem of lack of classrooms and teachers cropping up every start of the school year.

As schools opened yesterday for the start of the new school year, militant lawmakers criticized the Aquino administration for failing to address the critical shortages of teachers and classrooms in public schools.

School doors are open today for the 25.7 million public and private elementary and high school students for school year 2011-2012.

Angara, chairman of the Senate Education, Arts, and Culture Committee, Friday urged sweeping reforms that would lift the country’s educational system after noting that the country is producing 2.13-million college dropouts annually.

MANILA, Philippines – A bill seeking to transform day care centers from a playroom to a learning center has been approved on third and final reading at the Senate.

MANILA: Thousands of foreign university students are flocking to the Philippines, attracted by cheap yet high-quality courses conducted in English and an easy-going lifestyle outside class.

HOW will school-opening day tomorrow under the Aquino administration differ from school-opening day under the previous administration? For one, the Philippines will start following the K-12 basic education curriculum.

Ronald barely finished his first year in high school three years ago. Today, he is a tambay, too young to be the neighborhood’s siga, but most likely on his way to becoming one. While still reverent to the older tambays, he is building his own following of younger kids, many also school drop-outs.

Manila, Philippines – The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) is drawing up a framework to rationalize the miscellaneous fees charged by colleges and universities in the country to address concerns of exorbitant and so-called ridiculous fees.