K to12

MANILA, Philippines – A total of 41,728 classrooms will be repaired or constructed across the country this year as part of the government’s preparation for the full implementation of the K to 12 program, according to the Department of Education (DepEd).

MANILA – Some 39,000 teachers and 14,000 non-teaching acedemic personnel will lose their jobs over a span of five years in the “worst case scenario” as the Department of Education fully implements the K to 12 education program, DepEd Secretary Bro. Armin Luistro said Wednesday.

MANILA, Philippines–Senator Antonio Trillanes IV is pushing for the suspension of the implementation of the K to 12 Program, which he described as “overly ambitious program” of the government.

Usual backlog of classrooms, teachers remains, says Luistro (First of a series) SOURCES: DEPED AND CHED / COMPILED BY: SCHATZI QUODALA, INQUIRER RESEARCH The birth pains that marked the launching last year of K + 12—a bold program meant to align the Philippines with the global 12-year basic education cycle—are not going away soon, along…

Before starting Grade 11, students should already know what they intend to do for the next few years, if not for the rest of their lives. That situation is the same as it is today. Fourth year high school students today, sometime before they graduate from high school, apply for entrance into tertiary institutions and…

MANILA, Philippines—The country’s adoption of the K-12 education program is expected to result in a wave of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) among operators of academic institutions.

In the current (now old) General Education Curriculum for all college students, there are Filipino and English language subjects. In the new General Education Curriculum (GEC), there is no subject devoted only to Filipino or to English.

The third of eight required core courses in the new General Education Curriculum (GEC) for all Philippine colleges and universities is “The Contemporary World / Ang Kasalukuyang Daigdig.”

Malacañang’s keeper of the purse once likened the Philippine education system to a frog in a kettle put to a boil. “The frog will not know it is dying until it is too late,” Florencio “Butch” Abad told me in 2007, two years after he left the Arroyo administration in a mass desertion of Cabinet…

With the expected drop in enrollment starting in 2017 due to the government’s K-to-12 basic education curriculum, Catholic school leaders are concerned over the possibility of manpower displacement, even as they are searching for ways to cope with the effects of the new program.

The Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2012 of the K-to-12 bill, which would add two more years to basic education cycle has hurdled the House Basic Education panel on Wednesday. Via an overwhelming vote of 25 to two, the House Committee on Basic Education voted for the approval of the still unnumbered Substitute Bill to…

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will undertake a review on computer accessibility in public schools achieved by past and ongoing information communications technology (ICT) programs.

The Teachers’ Dignity Coalition (TDC) challenged President Aquino to take action on several bills for teachers’ compensation pending before the houses of Congress. Benjo Basas, the group’s chairman said “this is the high time to discuss the pending bills on teachers’ salaries and this is far more important than the proposed K+12 program of the…

The Teachers’ Dignity Coalition (TDC) challenged President Aquino to take action on several bills for teachers’ compensation pending before the houses of Congress. Benjo Basas, the group’s chairman said “this is the high time to discuss the pending bills on teachers’ salaries and this is far more important than the proposed K+12 program of the…

The objections to President Noynoy Aquino’s K+12 program continue to be aired by a few, despite the clear finding by SWS that majority of Filipinos support the reform.

MANILA, Philippines – Former education secretary Mona Dumlao Valisno said that letting private higher education institutions (HEIs) and tech-voc training centers to set up the additional two-year senior high school (SHS), will spare DepEd and private high school owners the financial burden of building the additional infrastructure and procuring the necessary resources, such as hiring…

MANILA, Philippines – Education Secretary Armin Luistro allayed fears of private colleges and universities of losing business with no freshmen enrolling in 2016. The first year of a two-year senior high school will be put in place that year under the department’s Kindergarten+12 Basic Education Curriculum (BEC) program, since the schools would be allowed to…

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd)’s ambitious Kindergarten to 12 (K+12) basic education curriculum program is getting more support from the public.

Small businesses, one of the pillars of the country’s economy, stand to benefit the most from the implementation of the so-called K to 12 system this year, local officials from website Jobstreet.com said.

In 2004, the Department of Education tried to add one year to the Philippines’ basic education curriculum, but was stopped by massive protests from teachers, students and parents. Last Monday, despite more protests against the K-12 plan, which adds two years to basic education in the country, it went on with the implementation of the…

MANILA — Generally, for parents, providing good education for their children is definitely a good investment. Thus, the thrust of the Department of Education’s K+12 program, a flagship education program of the Aquino administration which requires the mandatory implementation of Kindergarten and an additional two years of senior high school to the current 10-year education…

MANILA, Philippines – With almost two months left before another school year opens, Malacañang officially launched on Tuesday, April 24, the K to 12 Basic Education Program of the Department of Education (DepEd).

But teachers’ group remains wary MANILA, Philippines – Once the flagship education program of the Aquino administration is fully implemented, Filipino graduates would be equipped with at least two foreign languages and a broader view of the labor market.

EUREKA! The K to 12 Basic Education Program, a major part of the campaign platform of President Aquino, is also one of the most controversial administration initiatives.

Whatever shall we do with our education system? The central reform that the present administration wants to implement is the K to 12, a program that makes kindergarten mandatory and adds two years to the present 10-year basic education.

THE Department of Education’s Kindergarten to 12 program (K-12) will only bear losses for private schools and colleges nationwide amounting to P128 billion, as the number of enrollees are expected to decline, the Coordinating Council of Private Educational Associations (COCOPEA) said over the weekend.

With the K to 12 program soon in place, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) is gearing up a massive review and updating of its courses to be offered to the students to boost their chances of employment after graduation.

I give a lot of lectures on K to 12. At the beginning of each lecture, I give my cellphone number to the audience. They text me their questions while I am speaking, and I answer the questions in the course of my lecture. It is my way of getting instant feedback and adjusting my…