Education

The paramount importance of education can never be overlooked by the President if he holds close to his heart the welfare of the people and the future of his country.

Students from South Korea topped the list of foreigners who took up elementary and high school education and short-term courses in the Philippines last year, statistics from the Bureau of Immigration (BI) showed yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – Why has science and mathematics education in the Philippines deteriorated? According to a University of the Philippines (UP) expert, this is because local education persisted in using an obsolete discipline-based curriculum in math and science (which is mostly by rote and without much inquiry and high level of thinking) already rejected as…

THE government has released funds to enable qualified public school students to study in private educational institutions.

THE Education department (DepEd) said on Friday that all current programs being implemented by the department are now being studied in preparation for the upcoming roll out of the Enhanced K+12 program.

MANILA, Philippines – Mayors and top level local government officials, school administrators, and other education advocates who attended Synergeia Foundation’s 8th National Education Summit have committed to hammer down to zero the dropout rates in public schools in their localities.

(Part III of the series Maximizing ECE to Achieve Primary School Competence) Among the first observations of the new CHED Secretary Patricia Licuanan, as soon as she took her oath of office was that there are too many colleges in the Philippines, which are not meeting the requirements and standards the CHED (Commission on Higher…

MANILA, Philippines – Local government officials from almost 50 municipalities, 114 school administrators and other education advocates have set an ambitious target for public schools.

Government spending on social and economic services is important to economic development. The question is, how has the government performed on this front? A recent economic analysis of public expenditure by the World Bank provides a good answer to these questions. The study pays particular attention to government spending on education, public health, and infrastructure…

Filipino students have deteriorated in the field of science and math. At an educator media forum, a University of the Philippines (UP) expert said this is because local education persisted in using an obsolete discipline-based curriculum in math and science already rejected as early as 1993 by Unesco (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization).

DepEd is still searching for quality preschool curriculum and its corresponding teacher training. Can they work on this before the school year starts in June? Quality kindergarten teaches you all you need to know — HOW TO LIVE. Usually, parents keep looking for preschools with scholastic materials for the three R’s instead of social materials.…

MANILA, Philippines—Soon, public high-school graduates would be greeting their teachers a hearty “good morning”—in six languages.

The Technical Panel on General Education (TPGE) of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) will conduct national consultations on its draft of a Revised General Education Curriculum (RGEC). These consultations will continue those done in 2009 with the other CHED Technical Panels, the PRC Boards of Examiners, and the professional organizations.

In 1986 during the administration of President Corazon Aquino, DECS Secretary Lourdes Quisumbing organized CONCEP, the national coordinating council for Early Childhood Education for the Philippines with DECS Order 29 series of 1987. This constituted a taskforce of preschool experts including me, chosen by Dr. Quisumbing herself to act as an advisory taskforce to DECS,…

MANILA, Philippines—At a time when college students would rather become nurses, chefs and seafarers, the Commission on Higher Education and the antipoverty NGO Gawad Kalinga have partnered to give agriculture a makeover and attract more students to the rather unpopular course.

MANILA, Philippines – Educators bewailed the continued failure of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to close down so-called low-performing colleges and universities, especially those whose graduates miserably fail to pass licensure examinations of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) every year.

Well-to-do students tend to enjoy a chunk of government subsidies for college education that government must spend less on tertiary education and more on primary and secondary schools, a World Bank (WB) review has recommended for the Philippines to pursue.

In April 2009, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) formed the Technical Panel on General Education (TPGE). The TPGE was tasked to restudy CHED’s General Education Curriculum (GEC) in the light of what the Presidential Task Force for Education (PTFE) had recommended as the “Philippine Main Education Highway.” In particular, the TPGE was mandated to…

MANILA, Philippines – Bureau of Immigration (BI) Acting Commissioner Ronaldo Ledesma the other day said that there are 19,121 foreign students currently taking up college courses in the country, which is 768 higher than the previous school year.

MANILA, Philippines – The departments of Education (DepEd), Budget and Management (DBM) and the League of Provinces of the Philippines (LPP), have signed a pact that provides DepEd and provincial governments are to share 50-50 in the costs of constructing public school buildings.

More to the Point MANILA, Philippines – The debate continues on whether the government should put its limited resources on the Enhanced K-12 Basic Education Program which will add two years to our present 10-year basic education. The enhanced K-12 program as many now know, will have kindergarten, 6 years of elementary education, four years…

MANILA — As the government beefs up its efforts to move closer towards hitting the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets, the Department of Education (DepEd) reaffirms its commitment to achieve universal primary education and the Education For All (EFA) goals.

Education, like life itself, starts at birth and ends with death. The division among elementary, secondary, and tertiary education is convenient for government planners and curriculum designers, but it is not based on human nature. There is no major difference in the learning abilities of children in Grade 6 and those in First Year High…

THE Commission on Higher Education (CHED) on Tuesday said it is confident that less number of private colleges and universities will implement tuition increase amid various student groups raising alarm on the expected hike. In an interview with Executive Director Julito Vitriolo, the commission expects only around 20 percent, or less of the total population…

MANILA, Philippines – Children will soon be required to take one year in kindergarten education as pre-requisite to enter Grade I under a bill that was passed on third and final reading at the House of Representatives.

MANILA, Philippines – Children in public schools nationwide will soon be given the opportunity to work their little plots of earth, when the Department of Education (DepEd) starts its program to combat malnutrition called “School-based Food and Nutrition Program,” with the slogan “Ating anihin masustansyang pagkain, tanim ng paaralan natin (Harvesting nutritious food in school…

According to CHED Memorandum Order 59, series of 1996, general education demands “an interdisciplinary approach which would help the students see the human being as an integral person living in both a national and a global community.”

Philippines—Washington believes the Philippines is “unlikely” to meet its second Millennium Development Goal (MDG) or achieving universal primary education by 2015, according to a report of the US embassy in Manila furnished the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

THE Department of Education (DepEd) said it is looking for options to address the need for more kindergarten teachers in line with the 2.4-million 5-year-old students targeted to start schooling this year.

With the rapid technological advances seen in recent years, Sen. Edgardo Angara urged the government to integrate computer lessons into the basic curriculum of all public and private schools.