Education

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) will infuse social emotional learning (SEL) in the curriculum of public schools to address the emotional quotient (EQ) development of students aside from their intelligence quotient (IQ).

With the intention to propel the country’s human resources, Sen. Edgardo Angara is eyeing for more laws to help boost the country’s pursuit in producing globally-competitive Filipino scientists and future Science and Technology leaders.

During a small forum on open culture at the University of the Philippines last month, the discussion veered toward the use of technology in providing access to information and cultural products to underprivileged communities. One example that was mentioned was the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project. The idea of the OLPC was to “create…

President Arroyo has ordered Education Secretary Jesli Lapuz to make sure that all public schools (primary to tertiary) are connected to the Internet so that students will have a deeper grasp of the world around them and upgrade their knowledge and appreciation of global developments.

Commission on Higher Education Chairman Emmanuel “Manny” Angeles said yesterday that courses like engineering, architecture, accountancy, pharmacy and physical therapy will undergo major curriculum reforms to be at par with current world standards.

Secretary Emmanuel Angeles, chair-man of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), enunciated his plans for the higher education sector in several fora. One of these fora was the 2009 Philippine Association of State Universities and Colleges (PASUC) General Assembly held in Cebu on June 24. I have devoted my last two columns to the first…

Next to improving the intelligence quotient of students, the Department of Education (DepEd) is also focusing on enriching the emotional quotient of learners to support its effort to inculcate the value of cultural heritage among the youth.

Secretary Emmanuel Angeles, chairman of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), enunciated his plans for the higher education sector in several fora. One of these fora was the 2009 Philippine Association of State Universities and Colleges (PASUC) General Assembly held in Cebu on June 24. I devoted my column last week to the first part…

An inter-agency council is now conducting a nationwide survey of the country’s day-care centers and workers to determine the quality of services they provide and to pinpoint the areas that need to be improved to enhance early childhood care and development (ECCD).

BANGKOK (AFP): Asian economies will likely bounce back from the global economic slump in 2010 but fears remain over the sustainability of growth if there  is no wider recovery, the Asian Development Bank said Thursday.

THE report of the Presidential Task Force for Education (PTFE) containing updates, recommendations and action plans on different issues and concerns in the Philippine education system was presented to the Cabinet at its meeting held at Aguinaldo Hall, Malacañan Palace on December 8, 2008. This was subsequently approved by President Gloria Arroyo.

To reinforce the attainment of the UN Millennium Development Goals by the 192 Member States of UNESCO, the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) was declared with UNESCO as the implementing agency.

Education Secretary Jesli Lapus has signed Department of Education Order 74 nullifying the 35-year-old bilingual directive laid down in the 1970s on English and Filipino as the only languages of instruction. Neither of the languages is the first language (L1) of most Filipinos.

Education Secretary Jesli Lapus instructed school officials nationwide to bring some 2.2 million children with disabilities to school in line with the Department of Education (DepEd)’s Education-For-All program.

Cost of education in the Philippines has been rising at a faster pace than that of food for nearly a decade, hurting the overall quality and performance of Filipino students, according to the National Statistical Coordination Board.

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Education (DepEd) has six more years to bring the remaining 15 percent or almost four million school-age children into public schools.

MANILA, Philippines — Senator Francis Escudero expressed alarm on Thursday over the increasing dropout rates in primary and secondary education levels.

MANILA, Philippines – Do you know that most of the 2,885,000 unemployed Filipinos today are new graduates?

MANILA, Philippines – The Supreme Court (SC) and the Department of Education (DepEd) have joined hands in promoting the rule of law among Filipino youth through the implementation of the second phase of their joint program, Public Education of the Rule of Law Advancement and Support (Perlas).

As we were driving along a rugged and steep road in a barangay in Lobo, Batangas at around five o’clock in the afternoon, one day last week, we met school children walking from a public school to their home. We estimated that easily these kids would have to walk at least some three to five…

IF THE NUMEROUS English-language teaching centers in our urban centers today that cater to Koreans is used as the yardstick, we have reason to say that the Philippines has good linguistic educational facilities.

For several decades, educators believed that education is preparation for life and is normally taken under a formal and structured system. A process of instructing, training and of providing knowledge, skills and abilities, the purpose of which is to educate the person. Later on the concept of formal and informal education led to a more…

“We cannot equip the youth of the future with the tools of the past,” wrote former DepEd Undersecretary and UNESCO Principal Director Victor Ordoñez in his blog shortly before he died. These words will continue to outlive him, because they express both the problem of and the solution to our educational situation today.

After delays brought on by A(H1N1), the virus about which a good portion of our student population had kindly thoughts about, particularly for its capacity to grant a reprieve from the onslaught of schooldays, classes on the collegiate level have commenced. Once more, instructors and professors work on syllabi, on course and class objectives and…

MANILA, Philippines – The government, it seems, continue to create state colleges and universities (SCUs) more than it can sufficiently support.

Some 23 million students from elementary to college were to start classes today, after the Department of Education and the Commission on Higher Education said they would no longer delay school openings despite persistent threat from a deadly flu virus.

The Department of Education has mobilized its Center for Students and Co-Curricular Affairs (CSCA) to ensure transparency and accountability in the operation of Parents-Teachers Associations (PTAs) throughout the country.

IF we want to bring quality back into public education, we must start with the teachers. There was a time in the Philippines when the graduates of the public school system were as good as if not better than those who graduated from the private schools. Public school grads spoke well, wrote well, and were…

A worker was sent by his employer to a special school in Makati for a three-day certificate course to enhance his skills.

LEGAZPI CITY: The provincial government of Albay has infused P16 million to finance the education of poor but deserving college students this school year. The free education to poor but deserving students provided by the province is part of the priority programs which was presented by Gov. Joey Salceda before the national competitiveness council road…