Education

It’s been so tough to get data from the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) these days. After almost ten times calling the said government agency for the list of tertiary schools and their updated tuition per unit, I was left hanging like a beggar for statistics. So I decided to research online and ask the…

LEGAZPI CITY: Students throughout Albay will be learning about the life-wrenching, impact of climate change beginning this school year.

THOUSANDS of foreign university students are flocking to the Philippines, attracted by cheap yet high-quality courses conducted in English and an easygoing lifestyle outside class.

MANILA, Philippines –  The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has sent out cease and desist orders (CDOs) to higher education institutions (HEIs) offering courses that do not comply with quality standards and whose graduates fare miserably in licensure examinations.

MANILA, Philippines –  A total of 324 colleges and universities have raised their tuition for school year 2011-2012. Data from the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) showed the average tuition hike was 14.37 percent, up from the 10 percent posted last April.

ALL systems are ready to go as the Education department (DepEd) re-launched on Monday its Oplan Balik Eskwela (OBE) through the Information and Action Center Task Force (IAC) in preparation for the official opening of classes next week.

MANILA, Philippines – Students and parents will get assistance from the reactivated Oplan Balik Eskwela (OBE) Information and Action Center of the Department of Education (DepEd) when schools open on June 6.

MANILA, Philippines – Technical and vocational education will be integrated in the proposed “K+12” model for the country’s basic education system, effectively adding two more years to high school, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) director general Joel Villanueva said yesterday.

Sen. Manuel Villar Jr. has called on the Upper Chamber leadership to conduct an inquiry into the reported “hidden charges” in tuition and increases in miscellaneous fees being imposed by some private schools.

ABUSIVE private schools that continue to raise tuition fees hiding under the skirt of deregulation will be going through a wringer in aid of legislation of the Senate committee on Education, Arts and Culture.

BUTUAN CITY, Philippines – Most state-run colleges and universities in the Caraga region have raised their tuition and other school fees, the regional office of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) said yesterday. Dr. Julius Sol Jamero, chief administrative officer of CHED-Caraga, said the recent cut in the annual budget of state-owned colleges and universities…

MANILA, Philippines — There’s an acute shortage of almost everything at the Department of Education (DepEd).

MANILA, Philippines – Youth party-list group Kabataan said that the government’s neglect of its duty to maintain the quality of higher education in the country was largely to blame for the Philippine higher education institutions’ poor performance in a education quality audit conducted by an international education network.

MANILA, Philippines –   The Department of Education (DepEd) bared yesterday the declining achievement rates in the past years of elementary and high school students nationwide.

MANILA, Philippines –  The National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) lambasted the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) yesterday for making a false claim that there was no fee increase at state universities and colleges (SUCs) all over the country.

MANILA, Philippines—From separate energy and air-conditioning fees to Internet and e-mail fees, college enrollment charges seem to be getting longer and more burdensome. A youth group monitoring colleges and universities nationwide yesterday noted that in addition to the rising tuition in private colleges and universities, miscellaneous fees have been padding education costs with “hidden fees”…

A GROUP of Roman Catholic schools on Friday defended its move to increase tuition for the coming school year as it admitted that rates its members offer are comparatively “higher” than those of state universities and colleges in the country.

THE Commission on Higher Education said Wednesday two of every five high-school graduates may not move on to college this year as around 300 private colleges and universities would be increasing their tuition by up to 15 percent.

MANILA, Philippines – Lawmakers suggested yesterday various measures to lessen the burden of families hit by increased tuition and other fees in schools.

MANILA, Philippines – What would be the best motivation for five-year olds to go to school but toys? The ABS-CBN Foundation, in a bid to convince five-year olds all over the country to go to mandatory kindergarten school at the opening of classes in June, has pledged to gather 1.9 million toys to be donated…

MANILA, Philippines—Funds totaling P7 billion has been released to the Department of Education for building and repairing of some 9,000 new and existing classrooms nationwide, Budget Secretary Florencio B. Abad said on Monday.

DepEd strives to solve enrolment retention problems in the Visayas… MANILA, Philippines — According to the 2010 Department of Education (DepEd) data, of the almost 14 million elementary pupils, 6.28 percent dropped out in schoolyear 2009-2010. That is more than 800,000 pupils.

MANILA, Philippines — Children have rights and privileges guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Every support must be extended to ensure their growth in an environment in which their rights and welfare are respected.

MANILA, Philippines — Education Secretary Armin Luistro has challenged the student trainees of the Department of Education’s (DepEd) Special Program for the Employment of Students (SPES) to convince the out-of-school youths (OSYs) in their communities to also invest in education through the Open High School Program (OHSP) and the Alternative Learning System (ALS).

MANILA, Philippines – At least one million preschool children are expected to troop to public kindergartens when the school year opens in June, Education Secretary Armin Luistro said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) is set to implement the first phase of its ambitious K+12 (kindergarten plus 12 years) proposal with the establishment of thousands of “kindergarten schools” in most of the 38,000 public elementary schools throughout the country by the opening of school year 2011-2012 this June.

BECAUSE of the increasing cases of job mismatch in the country, the Commission of Higher Education (CHED) on Tuesday unveiled its list of “priority” courses recommended for incoming college students this academic year.

Rep. Arnel Ty of the party-list group LPG Marketers’ Association (LPG/MA) says only a third of college graduates manage to pass government licensing examinations. Citing Professional Regulation Commission statistics, Ty said that out of the 345,182 college and technical school graduates who went through professional eligibility examinations in 2010, only 125,419 or 36.3 percent passed.

UNESCO’S Irina Bokova believes that quality education can be acheived through adequate and capable teachers. MANILA, Philippines — Education, they say, is the great equalizer. The United Nations (UN) certainly believes in same thing, as it included the attainment of universal primary education as one of its Millennium Development Goals (MDG). And as the 2015…

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has thrown its regulatory muscle behind the Kabataan party list group in an effort to stop private higher education institutions (HEIs) from imposing the “no permit, no exam” policy much decried by college students and their parents.