Education

AN official of the Commission on Higher Education (Ched) on Sunday said participation in the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) may be made mandatory to students of state universities and colleges (SUCs) as well as local universities and colleges (LUCs) nationwide.

CEBU CITY, Philippines—Despite the opposition from various sectors, the Department of Education (DepEd) will soon implement an enhanced 12-year basic education program, which consists of seven years in the elementary level and five years in the secondary level, according to Education Secretary Br. Armin Luistro.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) leadership and public school teachers are headed on a collision course over a move to add two years to the basic education curriculum.

[Since last Sunday, the column of Dr. Felizardo Francisco, Director, CHED, has come out on Sunday instead of Friday.] [This is the last, the fourth, installment of the speech I delivered on “the Role of CHED in Setting Global Standards for Higher Education in the Philippines” during the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT)…

GET YOUR priorities straight. Ateneo de Manila University president Fr. Bienvenido Nebres SJ has criticized the Aquino administration’s plan to add two more years to basic education, saying government should focus first on cutting the number of “illiterates” the country produces annually.

During his campaign for the presidency, Candidate Noynoy offered a 10-point agenda for education. In his State of the Nation address last Monday, President Benigno Aquino III focused on three of these points, namely, the 12-year basic education cycle, additional classrooms, and GASTPE.

MANILA, Philippines – Dr. Emerlinda Ramos-Roman is on her fifth year as president of the University of the Philippines System (UPS). The noted lady educator is the first woman to head the country’s premier century-old state university.

A recent Harvard Business School survey of deans, executives, and recruiters that examines not only the value of MBA programs but also the mismatches between the skills learning of the MBA students vis-a-vis the realities of their workplaces has sparked fresh debate on the added value of MBA programs here and abroad. The HBS finding…

Former Senator Nikki Coseteng believes that overhauling the educational system of the country is difficult, but doable.

IN SCHOOL, speaking one’s native tongue (e.g., Cebuano, Ilocano, Bicol or Waray) is still considered by many an obstacle to learning, instead of an educational resource. Monetary, academic and even corporal penalties have been imposed in the false belief that, these will dissuade students from speaking the “dialect” in school.

Last week, I started sharing with you, dear readers, my speech on the topic “the Role of CHED in Setting Global Standards for Higher Education in the Philippines” during the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT) Institute Symposia and Fora on July 9, 2010 with the theme “Looking Global ……. Taking Actions . .…

Echoing the guiding principle of President Aquino that the Filipino people are his boss, Education Secretary Armin Luistro said all schoolchildren, whether in public or private schools, are his boss.

Inow share with you, readers, my speech on the topics “the Role of CHED in Setting Global Standards for Higher Education in the Philippines” during the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT) Institute Symposia and Fora on July 9, 2010 with the theme “Looking Global . . . . Taking Actions . . .…

Any administration or government that actually thinks they can live up to the expectations of today’s Filipinos have to be men and women of absolute faith or are absolutely insane.

MANILA, Philippines – Bad news for thousands of Filipino physical therapy (PT) graduates who want to work in the United States: American PT licensure authorities are blacklisting the Philippines and three other countries for at least one year over the leak of test questions.

MANILA, Philippines – The Aquino administration has abolished the food-for-school or rice-for-school program of the Arroyo government and will re-allocate the P3.3-billion budget for this to conditional cash transfers that may be of more help to the poor, Budget Secretary Florencio “Butch” Abad and Social Welfare Secretary Corazon “Dinky” Soliman said yesterday.

At least 19 law schools may face closure by the Commission on Higher Education (Ched) as not even a single student from their schools passed the recent bar exams.

The last topic GMA discussed with P-Noy inside the car on their way to the Quirino grandstand was her concern on education. Well, she chose a universal topic to talk about in an uncomfortable moment. It is a subject that people are deeply interested in as we all agree that education is and must be…

(Part 1 of a series on How Congress & Local Gov’t can Meet UNMDG) The official UN definition of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) strategy incorporates gender equality and women’s empowerment prospective. Thus, all targets and indicators would be gender-responsive and “sex-disaggregated”, enabling the “concerns and experiences of women”, as well as men, to be…

(Continued from yesterday) The Peculiar Autonomy of SUCs The problem with ‘autonomy’ is that it has different meanings. But one meaning of ‘autonomy’ in regard to SUCs that sets them apart from private HEIs is the fact that SUCs are not covered by the Manual of Regulations for Private Higher Education. This alone is important…

Reporters’ query on sex education curtly dismissed REPORTERS covering the Department of Education (DepEd) decried a statement made by Secretary Brother Armin Luistro, who was reported to have said that that he does not need the help of media in going about his duties at the agency. “Education Secretary Brother Armin Luistro is either misinformed…

First of 2 parts The last act of Commission on Higher Education Chairman Manny Angeles consisted in the issuance of a memorandum on state universities and colleges that relied on what, to my mind was an unfortunate, poorly argued, poorly articulated Opinion of the Department of Justice on the relation between the Commission on Higher…

THE COMMISSION on Elections (Comelec) will coordinate with Education officials to include voter education in the curriculum, a poll official said yesterday, in preparation for the October elections for barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan officials.

Where in the basic education cycle should the two years be added? Several answers have been proposed. Let me label them as Options and outline the pros and cons of each one. In Option A, there will be a Grade 7 and a Fifth Year High School.

(Part 1 of a series) Out of 192 UNESCO member states 189 countries signed the UNMDG 2000-2015 (United Nations Millennium Development Goals) identifying the major global development challenges of PEACE, SECURITY and DEVELOPMENT. The eight goals are: (1) Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; (2) Achieve universal primary education; (3) Promote gender equality and empower women;…

TWO advocates of reproductive and women’s rights on Tuesday asked a Quezon City court to allow them to intervene in the case that aimed to block a program on sex education in select public schools.

The Department of Labor and Employment on Tuesday blamed the country’s academic curriculum for the failure of many Filipino graduates to land jobs that are in line with their college degrees.

It’s becoming clear that high in the new Aquino administration’s priorities will be the addition of two more years to our formal basic educational system. Right now, we have six years of primary school and four for the secondary to make 10. The idea is to make that 12, but it is still unclear where…

Something is really wrong when government agencies are adopting measures based on a legislation that has not even been passed by Congress yet. This is what the Department of Education (DepEd) under outgoing Secretary Mona Valisno is doing in her last few days in office when she issued DepEd Memo 261 integrating the subject of…

AMONG the accomplishments of the outgoing administration is the doubling of the budget for education. When President Gloria M. Arroyo took office in 2001, the budget for state colleges, the Department of Education (DepEd), Commission on Higher Education (CHED), and Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) was only P90 billion. This year the budget…