Education

WITH the changing face of the modern workplace—where high-tech is the operative word—Sen. Edgardo Angara is urging the incoming Aquino administration to legislate an integrated computer education starting in elementary level.

AFTER crossing swords with the Catholic Church over condoms, Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral is ruffling religious feathers again with a move to introduce sex education in schools.

CONSUMER and sex education will be taught to students in elementary and high-school students beginning this school year, the Department of Education has announced.

MANILA, Philippines – The cultural phenomenon called “jejemon” could put to waste the P500-milllion English retraining program for public school teachers and decrease the country’s business competitiveness, Education Secretary Mona Valisno warned yesterday.

The Department of Education (DepEd) is doubling it’s efforts to make children go to school and to keep them there.

ABOUT 399 colleges and universities have raised matriculation fees for this year, with some going as high as 13 percent for school year 2010 to 2011, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) said Friday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) disclosed yesterday that the agency had warned 132 nursing schools whose graduates have consistently flunked the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) nursing licensure examinations for five years to either shape up or phase out their nursing programs.

FOUR Philippine universities made it to the top 200 list of Asian universities drawn up by the consultancy Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd. (QS) for 2010. The top Philippine university on the list was the Jesuit-run Ateneo de Manila University, which tied with Taiwan’s National Central University in the 58th slot.

CANDIDATES ON EDUCATION AND THE NATIONAL FUTURE Public investments in our human capital are East Asia’s most meager. The Jesuit Bienvenido Nebres calls the government’s neglect of adequate basic, elementary education for the great majority of our people “our immense and yet largely invisible failure.”

A WELL-ATTENDED forum on “The Promise of Redemption: BESRA and the Need for Higher Education Reform” was held recently on the UP Diliman campus. At that conference, four eminent scholars took turns in discussing various aspects of the Basic Education Sector Reform Agenda (BESRA), DepEd’s major initiative at reforming the country’s decrepit educational system. While…

Chairman Emmanuel Y. Angeles of the Commission on Higher Education in a follow-up orientation met on April 15 60 chairmen and members of the Technical Panels for Health Related Programs, Information Technology Education and Science and Mathematics. Chairman Angeles presented his plan for Philippine Education for the next 6 years (2010 to 2016) and labeled…

KABACAN, Cotabato , Philippines  — There is “education poverty” in underdeveloped areas of the country for which the government must allocate more funds, according to Sen. Edgardo Angara.             

It is getting harder and harder to find work these days. College graduates have found that their opportunities are limited. The situation is much worse for those who only have a high school education — the chances of finding the job they want are very slim. The problem seems to be that more people enter…

(This is the conclusion of  the columnist’s discussion of this subject, which started last Friday.)

The next Philippine president who will be elected on May 10 should prioritize job creation and education, a United Nations survey released on Thursday showed.

MANILA, Philippines – With the “budgetary crumbs” that the country’s state colleges and universities (SCUs) are allocated, it’s no wonder that many of them are performing lacklusterly.

LUBAO, Pampanga, Philippines – The Philippines is under fire from the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) for not having mandatory kindergarten in public schools, according to former education secretary Jesli Lapus.

MANY CHILDREN enrolled in private schools and their parents are overburdened by school work. The students have very little time after class hours to indulge in recreational activities and enjoy their youth. Their parents, right from work, have to spend the rest of the day and into the evening helping their children accomplish homework and…

MANILA, Philippines—Emmanuel Y. Angeles is quick to stress that he is not a businessman. Instead, he says he is a lawyer, having practiced law for 50 years. He is also an educator, having built a school in Angeles City, Pampanga and transforming it into the first university in Central Luzon.

MANILA, Philippines – Pity the country’s state colleges and universities (SCUs) — they operate on “budgetary crumbs”. But, ironically, they are mandated — and expected — to be of great service to the Filipino people, particularly those in the countryside.

I received such a tremendous response to the previous column on the crisis of our educational system that I decided to push the issues even further, to explore truly radical responses to save the next generation of Filipinos from the grip of mediocrity.

“Follow your heart” I told them, little did they know that I was about to pull a stunt based on that very advise.

It is sad that the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) so easily yielded to those hooligans who burned down equipment at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP). By so easily yielding to brazen intimidation, they allow our educational policy to continue on its politicized path to self-destruction.

There is a new government proposal to extend by one year tertiary education in our country. This I discovered while attending over the weekend the 34th Commencement Exercises of the Manila Doctors’ College where one of my twin boys graduated from his Bachelor of Science in Psychology course. Dr. Catherine Q. Castañeda, Director IV of…

Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Chairman Dr. Emmanuel Angeles assured that there will be no tuition increase in the Polytechnic University (PUP) of the Philippines and in other state universities and colleges (SUC) across the country.

COLLEGES and universities can increase their tuition as much as they want but should get the nod of students and their parents first, according to the Commission on Higher Education (Ched).

DO we really need two more years of basic education? The proposal to add two more years to the 10-year basic education curriculum is not new to the education agenda. It has been discussed and debated for some time and I first came across the proposal as a member of the Congressional Commission on Education…

Newly appointed Education Secretary Mona Valisno has expressed support for Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral’s program that aims to include sex education in the basic curriculum to help curb the rising cases of sex-related diseases among the youth.

LESS than 20 percent of those who took the 2009 Bar examinations passed.

DAGUPAN CITY, Philippines – The chairman of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) admitted Saturday that the quality of education in the country has “deteriorated way behind our neighbors.”