Education

MANILA, Philippines – Students and faculty members from state colleges and universities in Metro Manila staged simultaneous rallies and walkouts yesterday to protest a government proposal to reduce the P24-billion budget of the country’s 110 SUCs in 2011 by P1.1 billion.

MANILA, Philippines — Are students in state universities and colleges (SUCs) misinformed when they staged walkouts and sit-ins against the supposed cut in budgets for their schools in the 2011 national budget?

THE Commission on Higher Education (CHED) said it is mulling to issue another set of moratorium order on “oversubscribed” courses being offered by higher education institutions (HEI). Commission Chairman Dr. Patricia Licuanan said they are “looking again” at other courses that could also be oversubscribed such as the likes of nursing, teacher education, business administration,…

EASING ‘LEARNING FATIGUE’ MANILA, Philippines—Girding for its planned extension of the basic education cycle from 10 to 12 years, the Department of Education (DepEd) is decongesting the current public school curriculum to ease “learning fatigue”—identified as a leading cause of poor performance and early dropouts among students in public schools.

Part three BELOW is part three of the key-note speech I delivered during the National Conference on Information Technology Education with the theme “Building an IT Enabled Nation” on October 21, 2010 at La Carmela de Boracay Convention Center, Station 2, Boracay, Malay, Aklan. The speech is 1,852 words long. The Manila Times issue of…

MANILA, Philippines – A state university announced that they will hold campus strikes in the coming week in their campaign against the budget cut of state universities and colleges.

NETHERLANDS – Time and money. These are the two main issues why a lot of Filipinos, lawmakers, parents and students alike, are questioning the feasibility of the K+12 proposal of the Department of Education (DepEd).

BELOW is the keynote speech I delivered during the National Conference on Information Technology Education with the theme “Building an IT Enabled Nation” on October 21, 2010 at La Carmela de Boracay Convention Center, Station 2, Boracay, Malay, Aklan. The speech is 1,852 words long and takes up three columns. Last Sunday’s issue (November 7)…

DESPITE resources provided by the government in srecent years, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) said the deteriorating quality of faculty members in the country’s college and university are still among the factors affecting the quality of tertiary education.

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has imposed a moratorium on the opening of new course programs in Business Administration, Nursing, Teacher Education, Hotel and Restaurant Management, and Information Technology.

MANILA, Philippines—Public and private universities and colleges will not be allowed to offer new programs in five fields of study starting next year as the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) ordered a moratorium on new course offerings, citing the decline in the quality of graduates in these fields.

DESPITE resources provided by the government in srecent years, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) said the deteriorating quality of faculty members in the country’s college and university are still among the factors affecting the quality of tertiary education.

(Conclusion of series on P-Noy’s K-12 Educational Plan) Since President Noynoy Aquino decided to work out the K-12 educational mandate, major business conglomerates have expressed their strong support to help implement it. The most recent is the Aboitiz Foundation who signed a memo of agreement with Education Secretary Armin Luistro. Executives of the country’s top…

A notice of strike was “served” by militant youth and students groups disclosing that a nationwide protest action is brewing in major universities and colleges across the country in protest of budget cut among State Universities and Colleges.

Part one BELOW is the keynote speech I delivered during the National Conference on Information Technology Education with the theme “Building an IT Enabled Nation” on October 21, 2010 at La Carmela de Boracay Convention Center, Station 2, Boracay, Malay, Aklan. The speech is 1,852 words long and will take up three columns. So today’s…

The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) on Thursday warned higher education institutions (HEIs) against raising their tuition, saying that there is a process to increase tuition that includes consultation with parents and students. Lawyer Julito Vitriolo, CHED executive director, made the warning after students of several private colleges and universities complained to them of tuition…

TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines—If you want a job, don’t go to college. This, in essence, was the message to students graduating from high school by the Eastern Visayas office of the Department of Education (DepEd).

MANILA, Philippines – Presiding over last week’s Senate finance committee hearing on the 2011 budget of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Sen. Edgardo Angara called for a review of the various scholarship programs funded by the government through the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) in order to assess their status, as well as their…

MANILA, Philippines—With identical scores of 99.7 percent, four young Filipino numbers aces were among 65 students worldwide who topped the 2010 Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC), which drew about 400,000 contestants from at least 40 countries when it was held in August.

MANILA, Philippines— For inspiring popular interest in science and math through her weekly column “Eureka!” in the Inquirer Learning section, Queena N. Lee-Chua is the first winner, jointly with Malaysia’s Mahaletchumy Arujanan, of the Regional Prize for Public Understanding of Science in the East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific from the Third World Academy…

For sure the country’s basic education system is beset with many problems and past administrations have tried to solve them. Past regimes, have vowed but failed to resolve the perennial shortage of teachers and classrooms.

Filipino engineers and other professionals struggle to obtain international accreditation to meet requirements for jobs abroad because our basic education is only 10 years, two years shy of the international standard. Now, there is a strong move to increase basic education by two more years to make our high school graduates employable and our professionals,…

DESPITE the most respected experts’ agreement that it is urgent and necessary to reform the country’s basic education system with something like the Department of Education’s Enhanced K+12 program, it will surely face rough sailing. Mainly the difficulties arise from lack of funds and the opposition mounted by populists, leftists, anti-administration politicians and educators claiming…

The Philippines is ill-prepared to embark on the ideal 12-year basic education curriculum, at least for now, lawmakers eyeing the money problem say. The Enhanced K+12 program will add two years of senior high school to the current system and will be implemented beginning school year 2016 to 2017.

“Honor and Excellence’’ was the heart of Prof. Winnie Monsod’s last lecture for the recently-concluded semester at the University of the Philippines-Diliman School of Economics. For her students, her words and fervent advices always bring a good note to end the term.

In any debate, the debaters first agree on what to debate about. In the public debate about K+12, many participants have differing ideas about what exactly DepEd has embarked on.

MANILA, Philippines – “Big Business” has come out loudly and strongly in support of the Department of Education (DepEd) and its move to implement the ambitious K+12 Basic Education Curriculum (BEC) plan which will add two years in the BEC and transform the current six years of elementary and four years of high school to…

(Part II of a series on P-Noy’s K-12 Education Plan) In 1990, three major global and national programs affecting the Philippine educational system were launched: The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Education For All (EFA) and the Senate Congressional Commission (EDCOM) to survey the status of all schools in the Philippines from…

Food manufacturer CDO-Foodsphere Inc. has teamed up with the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), a non-profit corporate foundation established by prominent businessmen led by PLDT chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan, for a supplemental feeding program to save indigent children out of malnutrition in a pilot site in the northern part of Metro Manila. Odyssey Foundation…

WILL two more years added to basic education equip high school students with skills to enter the world of work and or pursue a college degree?