Education

MANILA, Philippines—While insisting on their religious and academic freedoms when it comes to implementing provisions of the new Magna Carta of Women, private Catholic schools are asking for more and bigger subsidies from the government.

MANILA, Philippines – A national teachers’ organization has opposed the Department of Education’s move to shorten class hours in public elementary schools in a bid to add more class shifts.

MANILA, Philippines – A multi-sectoral group criticized the Department of Education (DepEd) yesterday over its program to reduce class hours in public elementary schools to address the problem of classroom shortage.

MANILA, Philippines — Australia is offering Filipino college students scholarships to study mining-related courses like mining engineering, geology, metallurgy, mine safety, environmental management, and community development, the Australian embassy here said.

The Department of Education (DepED) has reduced the learning hours for elementary students, citing the “alarming size” of student population as part of its revised classroom program.

COTABATO CITY: Educators in the Muslim Autonomous Region have agreed that to contribute to the attainment of lasting peace as well as economic development in the restive region of Muslim Mindanao is to strengthen the Islamic schools known as “madaris,” according to education official of the region on Monday.

The Kabataan Party-list group said yesterday it would file a bill that would junk the “no permit, no exam policy” of schools as well as other regulations imposed by colleges and universities that only contributed to the already dire situation of decreasing access to education.

The Jesuit educator, Fr. Bienvenido Nebres, describes government’s neglect of elementary education as “our immense and largely invisible failure.” The fact is that education is not the only basic chore we’ve forgotten to look after. We are a country of immense and largely invisible failures: Our nation is like the proverbial frog inside the kettle…

MANILA, Philippines—A total of P1.8 billion has been earmarked to reinforce the government’s Pre-School Education Program, Cotabato Representative Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza said Sunday.

Amadeus Philippines, an information technology solutions provider to the travel and tourism industry, said it will help train tourism students of six universities and colleges, In a statement, Amadeus said it signed agreements with De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde, Far Eastern University, Lyceum of the Philippines University, San Sebastian College, University of the Philippines,…

The revolution in knowledgebased economics, globalization and the “flatness of the world” has exerted an increasing pressure in the education sector to continuously reinvent itself and be more accessible to the public. To be able to address the need for a globally competitive workforce, highly skilled individuals, and educationally qualified human resource—the Philippine higher education…

Our competitiveness ranking has once again dropped, this time substantially. We lost 16 places in an annual World Economic Forum report. While four other Southeast Asian economies also saw their positions worsen, it was the Philippines which posted the largest fall. We remained second to the last among the eight economies in the region, besting…

News that these last three years, the sixth graders of rural-area schools got higher National Achievement Test (NAT) scores than their city-school counterparts should buoy up our hopes. It is a sign that despite the corruption and deficiencies of the government the neglected rural areas are not as doomed to failure and unrelieved poverty as…

MANILA, Philippines – An affordable, accessible and portable education pathway is available for Filipinos to study and be equipped to take advantage of work opportunities in Australia.

PARIS: Investing in higher education will help states move out of recession and also bring lifelong financial rewards to people who choose to study for longer, the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) said in a report Tuesday.

MANILA, Philippines – The government will subsidize about 700,000 students in private high schools next year to the tune of P3.9 billion, Cebu Rep. Eduardo Gullas said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines—A total of P3.9 billion in new funding has been apportioned to subsidize the tuition of 703,318 students enrolled in private high schools, Cebu Representative Eduardo Gullas said in a statement Sunday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) said that results of the 2009 National Achievement Test (NAT) showed a continuing improvement in the proficiencies of public school students over the past several years.

First of two parts On August 19, 2009, 14 chairpersons of technical panels for the different clusters of higher education programs met with the technical panel for General Education (GE) for a consultative conference. The purposes were to hear the views of the different technical panels on what they expect from students finishing GE and…

THE Department of Budget and Management (DBM) said the government raised its allocation for education next year, adding the sector would get nearly half the budget set aside for social services.

MANILA, Philippines – Young Filipino math wizards continue to impress the world with their latest feat at the 5th International Mathematics Contest in Singapore.

MANILA, Philippines – The responsibility of educating people has always fallen on the shoulders of governments across the globe because of the complexity of the task, but a new World Bank study shows that deepening partnerships with the private sector in the Philippines is becoming a reliable way of financing quality education and making it…

THE education sector continues to get a much-needed shot in the arm from private initiatives such as the free seminars on teaching styles being conducted by a non-government organization to help public schools teachers adapt to the ever-evolving learning environment.

Academics do not wait for constitutions and legislatures to declare them free. They have always believed themselves to be free to do what academics do, and have so acted. It is the juridical recognition of academic freedom that is rather belated.

MANILA, Philippines – Having “shared” IT networks among state universities and colleges (SUCs) will improve research and development while allowing students to transact online, according to Catanduanes Representative Joseph Santiago.

BAGUIO CITY – The Department of Education should include discussions on labor rights in the curriculum of high schools in the country to boost productivity in the workforce, a University of the Philippines professor said here on Friday.

With economic hardships driving more students to transfer to public schools or stop schooling altogether, Buhay party-list Rep. Irwin Tieng has filed a bill penalizing school officials who withhold school records until students settle their accounts.

MANILA, Philippines – The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) reported yesterday that most college graduates in the country fail to pass licensure examinations.

I was invited to keynote the First Regional Geographic Information System (GIS) Conference in Baguio City and am sharing with you some of the salient points discussed.

The Department of Education (DepEd) faces a tough challenge in implementing its Information and Communications Technology for Education (ICT4E) road map, Secretary Jesli Lapus said on Thursday.