Education

MANILA, Philippines—The next administration should immediately add two more years to Philippine elementary and high school education, an education expert said.

Militant student groups revealed that more than 95 schools all over the county continue to collect graduation fees from students and parents despite repeated warnings by the Department of Education (DepEd).

The Department of Education (DepEd), following the lead of Early Childhood Care and Development Council (ECCDC), has launched a summer program in schools nationwide for children aiming to enter pre-school and elementary this year.

MANILA, Philippines – Teachers’ groups yesterday opposed the appointment of Presidential Assistant for Education Mona Valisno as the new head of the Department of Education (DepEd), saying it would impede the reforms implemented by Secretary Jesli Lapus.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) has asked Malacañang to certify as urgent a bill filed in Congress seeking to make pre-school education mandatory in public schools.

MANILA, Philippines – The Civil Service Commission (CSC) yesterday blamed the high casualty rate among Civil Service Examination (CSE) takers on their inability to pass parts of the tests that deal with analytical and mathematical skills.  

According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s Education for All 2010 Report, the Philippine education system is one of the worst in the world in terms of primary school enrolment. The sad part is that our primary school enrolment numbers rank alongside countries such as the United Republic of Tanzania or Zambia…

MANILA, Philippines – Ninety percent of examinees flunked the Civil Service Examinations (CSE), the Civil Service Commission (CSC) announced yesterday. Only 10 percent or 6,334 out of 62,389 individuals passed the tests that were conducted nationwide last November.

MANILA, Philippines – The National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) and the Kabataan party-list yesterday called on the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to impose a tuition increase moratorium.

We have always maintained that a true test of a nation’s conviction to education is found in their national budget. What percentage is allocated to education? If you want to know the policy of any administration, do not listen to the pronouncements. Study the budget. Examine the results.

Students and youth groups are gearing up for a huge protest action against tuition and other school fee increase while public and private schools gear up for protests against tuition and other fee increases.

MANILA, Philippines – It is conventional wisdom to think that our competency in English gives us a clear-cut advantage in the BPO (business process outsourcing) industry. After all, English is practically our second language, so doing business with Westerners should not pose a problem at all. This kind of readiness has made us a worthy…

One of the benefits of modernization and globalization is the advancement in information and communications technology. The 21st century has been described as the knowledge society, and as result many nations are reassessing their public policies related to the higher education, science, technology and innovations.

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines—People behind the world’s top universities in Europe will apply a uniform training and grading standard for higher education this year, which is expected to contribute to an improved global economy.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) will start the training of elementary and high school teachers to teach “personal safety lessons” (PSL) to make public schools and even homes safe for children.

MANILA, Philippines – The National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) and the College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) yesterday urged the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to take action on colleges and universities not implementing its Memorandum 02 for 2010.

Students’ groups on Friday asked the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to immediately act on the complaints of parents and students regarding the non-compliance of schools to its Memorandum Order No. 02, which called on higher education institutions to allow students with arrears to take examinations. Students groups, led by the National Union of Students…

(Part 2 of a series on EFA-ESD Call for All…) The Consultation Meeting facilitated by CHED Commissioner Dr. Nona Ricafort, who is also the Education Committee Vice Chair of the Philippine UNESCO NatCom, for the SEA-CLLSD (Southeast Asian Center for Lifelong Learning for Sustainable Development) two weeks ago was attended by the major education agencies…

CEBU, Philippines – The Philippines must learn from Thailand which is now having a surplus of classrooms after it was able to successfully manage its population.

MANILA, Philippines – Department of Education Secretary Jesli Lapus said yesterday he will not issue an order that would allow grade school and high school students with delinquent accounts in private schools to take their exams.

MANILA, Philippines—education Nation, a coalition of captains of industry and other concerned citizens, Wednesday launched a blueprint for reform to save the Philippine education system from collapse.

The Philippine Business for Education’s (PBEd) Education Nation coalition on Wednesday presented a 10-point education reform agenda that the next president should adopt to lift the quality of education in the country.

The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) issued a memorandum to all private and public colleges and state universities barring them from implementing a “no permit, no exam policy.”

The 2010 Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report, the annual EFA rating of each UNESCO Member State conducted by an independent team of UNESCO experts, stated that the Philippines trails the Republic of Tanzania and Zambia in education.

MANILA, Philippines – The National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) has set up a hotline for students and their parents to report violators of a Commission on Higher Education (CHED) directive lifting the “no permit, no exam” policy in colleges and universities.

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has ordered private higher education institutions (HEIs) and state universities and colleges to be “flexible” in implementing the “no permit, no exam” policy on their students.

Second of three parts (This is the second part of the speech I gave during the Annual Convention and Seminar Workshop for Campus Advisers and the 13th Annual National Convention and Seminar Workshops for Student Leaders held in Baguio last year. It was attended by more or less 600 faculty-advisers and student leaders from the…

THE ALLIANCE OF CONCERNED TEACHers (ACT) has assailed what it called the Arroyo administration’s continued failure to provide formal education for a growing number of young Filipinos, highlighted in 2009 by the more than 5.6 million out-of-school children and youth.

First of three parts I would like to share my speech on the topic “Critical Issues and Concerns on Campus Leadership” during the Annual Convention and Seminar Workshop for Campus Advisers and the 13th Annual National Convention and Seminar Workshops for Student Leaders held in Baguio last year attended by more or less 600 faculty-advisers…

Sen. Edgardo Angara yesterday underscored the need to invest more in early childhood education to enable the country to gain competitiveness in the global arena.