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DepEd steps up foreign-language program
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MANILA, Philippines?Soon, public high-school graduates would be greeting their teachers a hearty ‘good morning’?in six languages. The Department of Education (DepEd) is stepping up its foreign-language program in the coming school year, adding two widely spoken Asian languages to a list that… Read More
DepEd acts to address students’ dental health
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MANILA, Philippines?The Department of Education is mulling over a new survey on the dental health of school children in hopes of keeping more students in school and preventing bad teeth from affecting school performance. In recent talks with the department’s health chief and dental care donors, Education… Read More
DepEd, local governments partner to build classrooms
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MANILA, Philippines?The Department of Education (DepEd) is tapping municipalities across the country to share in the responsibility of building additional classrooms in their localities. Hoping to solve the nationwide shortage of over 152,000 classrooms, the DepEd signed a memorandum of agreement with the League of Municipalities of… Read More
DepEd to start universal kindergarten program in 2011
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MANILA, Philippines ?The Department of Education will implement a universal public kindergarten program in 2011 to prepare children about to enter primary school, Education Secretary Armin Luisto said Thursday. Read More
Gov’t to build 14,000 classrooms
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MANILA, Philippines?Some 14,000 new classrooms will be built and about 300,000 hectares of farmlands distributed to small farmers next year under the P1.6-trillion national budget signed by President Aquino on Monday. Read More
DepEd: Enrol children early for kindergarten
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MANILA, Philippines?The Department of Education (DepEd) has called on parents to pre-register their children for kindergarten in January. Read More
Schools told to keep Christmas parties simple
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MANILA, Philippines?Share more and keep celebrations simple. This is Education Secretary Armin Luistro’s reminder to the country’s more than 43,000 schools as students and teachers gear up for annual Christmas parties before the holiday break. Luistro, who leads a bare-essentials lifestyle as a La Salle brother, called for austerity and said school communities should… Read More
More vegetable gardens in public schools
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MANILA, Philippines?Next time you need to shop for ‘pinakbet,’ you may check out the nearest elementary school. The Department of Education (DepEd) is aiming to… Read More
CHED curbs enrollment in 5 fields
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BY ASHZEL HACHERO –> THE Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has ordered a moratorium on the opening of undergraduate and graduate programs in five courses that it has deemed as “oversubscribed.” In Memorandum Order No. 32, CHED chairperson Patricia Licuanan said the moratorium covered offerings in Business Administration, Nursing, Teacher… Read More
At MWSS, perks in spite of losses
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BY WENDELL VIGILIA THE acting administrator of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) yesterday said she and her fellow executives enjoy excessive perks and privileges despite having declared losses in the past. MWSS officer in charge Macra Cruz made the admission during the hearing of the House committee on good government. Read More
Education secretary breaks down in meeting with amok victims
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ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines ? Education Secretary Armin Luistro came here to console the families of the victims of an ex-convict who ran amok inside a school, but ended up being comforted instead. During a meeting with the families of the victims and teachers and parents of schoolchildren of Talisayan Elementary School on Thursday, Luistro broke into… Read More
Rest for teachers who did poll duty
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BY JOCELYN MONTEMAYOR and GERARD NAVAL–> –> The Department of Education said classes today in all public elementary and secondary schools will be suspended to… Read More
Review of state scholarship programs sought in Senate
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MANILA, Philippines?A senator has called for a review of government’s various scholarship programs through the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) as he proposed the creation of a separate department that would handle it. Senator Edgardo Angara made the call on Tuesday, a day after hearing the proposed budget of CHED for 2011 Read More
Reforms first or K+ 12 means nothing
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MANILA, Philippines?The results of the 2008 Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS) are finally out. Read More
Time is a function of education quality
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MANILA, Philippines?Whether finally shift to a 12-year basic education cycle or soldier on with what we have right now (i.e., Grades 1 to 6 for primary, and 1st to 4th year for secondary), the crux of the matter really is quality. Philippine Business for Education, the business community’s education reform advocate, says that ‘the additional years in basic education cannot be separated from the issue of poor quality of the education system. Forcing into 10 years a curriculum that is learned by the rest of the world in 12 has resulted in poor performance by our students Read More
Teachers to defy ‘no weekend homework’ order
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MANILA, Philippines ? Confused over the Department of Education’s (DepEd) latest order, a teachers’ group Tuesday said their members would continue to give students weekend homework they deem necessary, asserting their right to academic freedom. The 30,000-strong Teachers’ Dignity Coalition (TDC) also sought clarification from Education… Read More
TGIF: No homework on weekends?DepEd
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MANILA, Philippines?It’s TGIF (Thank God, it’s Friday) for public elementary students as the Department of Education (DepEd) has prohibited their teachers from giving homework during the weekend. Read More
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