Education

While the new DepEd Secretary, Brother Luistro is getting acquainted with UNESCO during the ongoing Autumn Executive Board meeting in Paris, former DepEd undersecretary to Brother Andrew, Isagani Cruz was tasked to inform the media and the public how President Noy Aquino’s K-12 education plan would work out. Expecting an avalanche of arguments to follow,…

SUCs urged to diversify sources of income MANILA, Philippines – The budget of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) for 2011 has been cut by P400 million.

The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), the country’s largest trade group, is supporting a proposal for a 12-year primary and secondary schooling for children under the K-12 program of the Aquino administration.

The recent proposal of DepEd Secretary Armin Luistro to add two more years to basic education has split households. Even in a recent survey conducted at the UST, results show that students surveyed are split on the idea.

MANILA, Philippines – The Australian government has set aside some P2 billion this year for the Aquino administration’s basic education reform agenda. The development aid is part of Canberra’s “significant ongoing support for education in the Philippines,” according to Australian Ambassador to Manila Rod Smith.

Amid diverse and divergent views over efforts to implement a 12-year education program in the country, a school in a fifth class municipality in the Mountain Province may just be proof of how the plan can work.

Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III yesterday slammed Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Bro. Armin Luistro for proposing to add two more years to the basic education in the country, saying there is no need to adopt such scheme.

The enhanced K+12 program came under fire on Wednesday, a day after it was unveiled by the Department of Education (DepEd), with Senate Majority Floor Leader Vicente Sotto 3rd among the first to criticize it. But there were a few who also voiced their support for the proposal.

Revising a curriculum is no easy task. After we find out which parts of the curriculum have to be changed, we have to structure the entire curriculum. It is like decorating a room. Let us say that you want to put up a painting on a wall. You have to remove whatever is on that…

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Business for Education (PBEd) group has welcomed the government’s plan to adopt the “K+12” proposal which integrates kindergarten and two additional years to basic education in the country.

The Department of Education (DepEd) will need more than P16.7 billion in additional funds for its K+12 project. In the same breath, Education Secretary Bro. Armin Luistro said their plan to add two more years to the current 10-year basic education curriculum came in different from what was expected during the celebrations of the World…

Despite protests, the Department of Education (DepEd) on Tuesday unveiled the government’s plan to add two more years to the current 10-year basic education curriculum. The model disclosed by Education Secretary Armin Luistro during celebrations marking World Teachers Day would add two years of “senior high school” to the current system and will be implemented…

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) on Tuesday clarified that the government’s proposed 12-year education cycle will be introduced gradually.

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) is zeroing in on the excessive number of higher education institutions (HEIs) in the country as one of the major causes of the deteriorating quality of higher education.

The Department of Education (DepEd) released its initial draft on its plan to add two more years to the current 10-year basic education cycle amid opposition from various stakeholders.

Changing a curriculum is a very complicated process. It is not just a matter of adding a subject here and removing a subject there. It is not even just a process of revising a particular syllabus or updating it or using a different teaching strategy.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) yesterday unveiled its ambitious 12-year basic education curriculum (BEC) plan that could change the current structure from 10 years with six years of elementary level and four years of high school to a combined Grades 1 to 12 path.

MANILA, Philippines—The use of English as a medium of instruction even for starter learners may be the reason why some nine million Filipinos aged 10 to 64 find it difficult to read, write, compute and comprehend, according to an education official.

P100-billion budget sought for salaries, classrooms MANILA, Philippines — Public schools need 57,000 more teachers and 113,000 new classrooms in the next three years to fill the current shortage as the student population rises, the Department of Education (DepEd) said on Thursday.

MANILA, Philippines — Amid the controversies that hound the “no homework on weekends” policy issued by the Department of Education (DepEd), Secretary Armin Luistro on Wednesday clarified that the memorandum is just a “reminder” to teachers about the importance of play and breaks from school work of the students and “not for strict compliance.”

MANILA, Philippines – Administrations of schools have the power to expel erring students to maintain order and discipline in their campus, the Supreme Court has ruled.

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines – The National Statistics Office (NSO) central office revealed that 58 million out of the estimated 67 million Filipinos aged 10 to 64 years old are functionally literate, meaning they can read, write, compute, and comprehend.

Despite objections of teachers Education Secretary Bro. Armin Luistro remained adamant on his order of implementing a “no assignment on weekend policy” despite objectons from a group of teacher group about it.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) has ordered the heads of public elementary schools to refrain from giving students homework during the weekend to give them enough time to rest and spend time with family.

TOILET SHORTAGE IN SCHOOLS MANILA, Philippines—It’s not uncommon to hear pupils say “May I go home Ma’am” in public schools, especially in Metro Manila. Good thing their homes are just a walking distance away.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) has initiated the development of an education curriculum that was designed to meet the learning needs of the Indigenous Peoples (IPs) communities.

The secretary of education, Brother Armin Luistro, has declared a full month to honor our teachers. My two parents were mentored by American educators in what were then called normal schools, which trained teachers in the noble profession of teaching.

BAGUIO CITY—The Aquino administration is tapping major corporations and every parent-teachers’ association in the country to help raise enrollment and keep children in school at an annual rate of 3 percent for the next five years.

THERE are 9 million Filipinos of the 67 million, or about 13 percent, who can only read and write but can’t make out the difference between prices of goods. They are called basically literate. The other 58 million, or 87 percent, can read and write and comprehend ideas as well. In other words, they are…

THE number of functionally literate Filipinos rose in 2008, particularly with higher level of education, the government said. According to the National Statistics Office (NSO) survey, 58 million of the estimated 67 million Filipinos 10 to 64 years old are functionally literate. A functionally literate person is one who can read, write and compute, or…