Education

MANILA, Philippines – If the Department of Education (DepEd) will have its annual budget doubled, adding another two years in the basic education for a grade 7 and a fifth year is doable, Education Secretary Mona Dumlao-Valisno said.

President Arroyo’s legacy in education can be described as unambiguous in terms of resource commitments, but less clear in terms of performance metrics. This is so for two reasons: (i) closing the educational supply/demand gap is constantly being constrained by fiscal and population-growth issues; (ii) it takes a while for improvement to show up in…

The Department of Education (DepEd) has confidently guaranteed quality education to more than 20 million public school students for the school year 2010-2011. Beneath the upbeat surface however, the team is extremely hard pressed to meet expenses, given its limited budget.      

Based on statistics published by the United Nations and the Philippine government, our education system is in serious need of reform. Throwing money though at the problem does not make a solution. There must be a comprehensive reform plan in place to address the systemic issues; if not, money spent is money wasted.

MANILA, Philippines—For many Koreans, Chinese and Iranians, going to school in the Philippines is cool, especially those who are eager to learn how to speak English.

The paramount importance of education can never be overlooked by anyone who holds close to his heart the welfare of our people and the future of our country.

One reason even our top universities do not make it to the list of the top 200 in the world is the lack of world-class academic research being undertaken in our country.

MANILA, Philippines – The 12-year education cycle proposed by President-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III will cost the Philippine government an additional P100 billion spread out in 5 years, Aquino’s education adviser said Thursday.

Local governments should pay teachers’ salaries and construct classrooms using their own money instead of relying on the Department of Education (DepEd) to address these problems, a state-run think tank said.

MANILA, Philippines – Some 21.05 million students troop back to public schools today as classes open for school year 2010-2011. Education Secretary Mona Valisno said some 3.26 million students are also expected to go back to private schools today.

MANILA, Philippines—Besides worrying about classroom shortages, textbook errors, and large classes, some teachers will now also have to worry about teaching sex education as more than 23 million students go back to schools on Tuesday.

MANILA, Philippines–Education experts urged local officials to refrain from using their localities’ special education fund (SEF) in financing projects and programs that would just promote themselves.

Perennial problems hound public and private students from both in the elementary and secondary levels return to their respective schools today, marking the start of the 2010-2011 school year.

CEBU, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) is urging the House of Representatives to ratify the Special Education Act of 2010, as the passage of this bill will finally give due attention to the education of 5.49 million children with special needs (CSN) and people with disability in our country.

Last week’s pronouncement of President-elect Benigno Aquino III that he will identify “the real” problems hounding Filipinos in order to map the present status of the country may as well be answered by the Department of Education with its litany of woes as it leads this Tuesday the opening of the school system for 2010-2011.

MANILA, Philippines – When classes open on June 15, the burden of coping with congested classrooms and the perennial lack of textbooks, chairs and other school equipment will once again fall on public school teachers, the Teachers Dignity Coalition (TDC) said.

This coming school year, the Department of Education (DepEd) said it will do away with “triple shifts” in all public elementary and high schools nationwide.

The Department of Education (DepEd) on Thursday asked president-elect Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino 3rd to provide as much 4 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2011 to address the most pressing problems in education, the Philippine News Agency reported.

Physical education (PE) is one of the most anticipated subjects by students since it helps relieve stress from the usual school grind of projects and papers. But how can the students enjoy PE if their school lacks sports facilities because of fund shortage?

“Grazie mille”, a thousand thanks, Madame President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo for your full support to all the mandated programs of UNESCO in the past nine years of your governance.

MANILA, Philippines – Senator Edgardo Angara has stressed the need to institutionalize an advanced studies development program for qualified employees of the government and private sector.

SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, Philippines – The administration of President-elect Benigno Aquino III will inherit from the Arroyo government shortage of teachers, classrooms, and other critical education resources worth P91.54 billion, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) said here yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) is already looking into 13 complaints of public schools violating its “no fee collection” policy.

MANILA, Philippines – Public school teachers urged the Department of Education (DepEd) yesterday to actively enforce their “no fee collection” policy and avoid confusion during the ongoing enrolment period.

MANILA, Philippines – Despite appeals by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) not to increase their tuition, 339 colleges and universities went on with their fee hikes for academic year 2010-2011.

The Department of Education (DepEd) is urging the next Congress to act on the Special Education Act of 2010 as it stands to benefit some 5.49 million children with special needs (CSNs) in the country.

MANILA, Philippines – Transferees and latecomers are still allowed to enroll in public schools until this week, the Department of Education said yesterday. Education Secretary Mona Valisno said she has ordered principals in more than 45,000 public schools nationwide to accommodate late enrollees and transferees with incomplete documents.

The school crisis is on us once again. Everyone’s agitated about crowded classrooms; the lack of teachers; not enough textbooks. All tough problems, certainly, but not even the key ones. The more intractable problem we don’t talk about: it concerns the children who never even get to school—or who drop out before they’ve received enough…

The Department of Education (DepEd) clarified on Friday that it will not teach students about sex or intercourse per se but about the science of reproduction, physical care and hygiene, correct values and the norms of interpersonal relations to avoid pre-marital sex and teenage pregnancy.

Four provinces in the country have posted a zero dropout rate in the secondary level of schooling, the Department of Education yesterday bared.