Education

In 1996, Cynthia Bautista, Edna Manlapaz, Mona Valisno, and I put together what is now known as General Education Curriculum A (GEC-A), also referred to as CHED Memorandum Order (CMO) No. 59, series of 1996. GEC-A is still followed by all college students majoring in humanities, social sciences, and communication.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DeEd) will judiciously spend the record high P207 billion it was given for 2011.

THE Department of Education (DepEd) is strengthening its drive for universal kindergarten schooling and is targeting 2.5 million children in the coming school year.

WITH the recent increase in its budget, the Department of Education (DepEd) said it would focus its attention and resources on pursuing priority projects and developing the kindergarten program for 5-year olds in preparation for the upcoming school year. Education Secretary Armin Luistro said the approval of the P207-billion budget of the department next year—the…

The term “K+12” has misled some into thinking that the P-Noy government regards the addition of two years to basic education as the solution to all our education problems. P-Noy has never said that and neither has Secretary Armin Luistro. In fact, P-Noy and Luistro have repeatedly said the opposite, namely, that K+12 is only…

UNIVERSITIES and colleges in the country are now prohibited from forcing their students from enrolling in a preferred review center of the said higher education institutions (HEIs).

THE Education department (DepEd) said it would have to close down schools in areas of high security risk if kidnappings should continue despite looking at redeploying principals and teachers in affected areas.

Conclusion Besides businesses, successful, well-run and financially strong HEIs, both public and private, can be tapped to provide guidance and expertise to institutions under strain. Fund raising, asset management, operational efficiency, faculty and facilities development are among areas of advice and assistance. Notably, Catholic universities like Ateneo, Assumption, La Salle and San Beda, have been…

CLARK FREEPORT, Pampanga, Philippines — President Aquino said here that the P271.67 billion education appropriation in the 2011 budget, already passed in the Senate, surpasses the education allocations of any of his predecessors.

Having had a chance to teach in four education levels: elementary, secondary, college, and graduate school, I have come to appreciate the critical importance of a skills focus, over and above knowledge orientation, which, in my day, seemed to be the end-all and be-all of schooling. Orientation and values, it seems to me, are largely…

First of two parts The protests and recrimination over the supposed cut in the budget of state colleges and universities may have been addressed by the Senate’s realignment of contraceptive funds from the Department of Health to the SCUs. The move should also help mollify two restive sectors: SCU students and educators, and Catholic Church…

MANILA, Philippines – Three students from Grace Christian College bagged the championship trophy in the Junior Division of the 4th International Young Mathematicians Convention (IYMIC) held in Lucknow, India over the weekend.

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has assured students there will be no tuition increase in state universities and colleges (SUCs) next year.

For the third time now, agitated members of militant student organizations have tried but failed to attract the attention of President Aquino — in their continuous pursuit to oppose his fiscal policy involving the 2011 budget of state universities and colleges (SUCs) — as the Chief Executive just evaded their presence when they attempted to…

THOUSANDS of students and teachers demonstrated in Metro Manila Wednesday to protest the alleged cuts in the budgets of more than 100 state universities and colleges next year.

Most, if not all, private schools in the Philippines are members of one or more of the following professional associations: Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines (CEAP), Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities (PACU), Philippine Association of Private Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAPSCU), Association of Christian Schools, Colleges and Universities (ACSCU), and Technical-Vocational Association of…

(Part III and concluding article on IVETA-CPSC Regional Conference) Are we Filipinos generally bashful, lethargic and fainthearted? Do parents and teachers have to always prod our children to greet relatives or friends whenever they meet them? How about the adults who generally avoid greeting foreign visitors? Are we different from other Asians? The Japanese automatically…

The adage that Filipino families put top priority on education — after basic needs such as food, clothing, and shelter — is often held up as an example of traditional values that we can be proud of as a people and that holds us in good stead in our endeavors, nay struggles, to achieve a…

MANILA, Philippines – Education for all. That is EFA, and with its success, the Education Department is hoping that by 2015 it would entrench the department’s crowning enterprise: The Alternative Learning System (ALS).

MANILA, Philippines – A state university professor fears that tuition increases may hit more than 300% next year at the campuses of the University of the Philippines and 112 other state universities and colleges (SUCs) nationwide to augment  budget cuts amounting to billions of pesos for 2011.

MANILA, Philippines – A World Bank (WB) study on the Philippines showed that the entire public education system had not progressed at all, and has in fact “regressed” from what should have been an ideal situation, Malacañang disclosed yesterday.

“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” was how William Shakespeare described it and that applies to the recent ranting about the so-called budget cuts in state universities and colleges (SUCs).

President Benigno Aquino 3rd’s policy of making state universities and colleges (SUCs) self-sufficient is wrong since this would make them as expensive as private colleges and universities, Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano said Sunday.

MANILA, Philippines –  The government urged state universities and colleges yesterday to raise and use their own funds on top of the subsidy being given them by the government.

He is the boss, not the FIlipinos. President Aquino no longer listens to his “bosses” as represented by the militant students who aired their disappointment and sought Aquino’s reconsideration on his decision to cut the budget allocation of state universities and colleges (SUCs) through a lightning rally that fell flat once again as the Chief…

Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III is asking the Department of Education (DepEd) to seriously consider adopting a “drug abuse prevention education program” and appropriate a portion of its proposed P207.3 billion budget next year for this purpose.

TO bridge the classroom gap in the provinces, the national government plans to enter into joint venture agreements with local government units (LGUs) for the purpose. Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Secretary Florencio Abad told The Manlila Times that the national government would match every peso that an LGU would spend building classrooms in…

MANILA, Philippines—Budget Secretary Florencio Abad on Saturday said government money would be better allocated for a few “centers of excellence” such as the University of the Philippines and the Mindanao State University rather than some state universities and colleges that “are not viable.”

MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang yesterday told students of state universities and colleges protesting budget cuts that the government will focus first on basic education and that SUCs have sufficient funds.

THE students and faculty of the University of the Philippines walked out of their classes Thursday to protest more than P1 billion in cuts on the budget of 112 state universities and colleges.