Education Secretary Armin Luistro ordered yesterday all schools to screen their students, particularly kindergarten pupils, for diseases and other medical conditions. Luistro, who opened the 11th School Health and Nutrition Congress at the Teachers’ Camp in Baguio City, said he would like for the Department of Education to have a complete profile of the health and nutrition conditions of every public elementary and high school student so DepEd could determine which school should have health interventions. … [Read more...]
DepEd: 10,000 classrooms up for PPP bidding
December 7, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
MANILA, Philippines - An initial batch of 10,000 classrooms will be constructed under the administration’s public-private partnership (PPP) scheme by the second quarter of next year. Education Secretary Armin Luistro told The STAR the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) has made “substantial approval” of the initial guidelines set by the DepEd technical working group (TWG) in charge of coming out with the parameters and bid documents that will be issued to groups participating in the bidding for the classroom construction. … [Read more...]
School principal suspended for 3 months
November 18, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
CEBU CITY -- The Department of Education has suspended the principal of a public high school here for allegedly initiating cheating at the National Achievement Test (NAT) conducted last year. … [Read more...]
DepEd, Smart launch blog competition
July 31, 2011 by · 1 Comment
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Education (DepEd), in cooperation with Smart Communications, Inc., has launched the second “Ano ang Kwento Mo” contest, one of the three major competitions under the “Doon Po Sa Amin (DPSA)” project where teacher-student perform basic community mapping exercises to create video blogs to feature a distinct characteristic, place, or culture in their respective communities. … [Read more...]
DepEd to hire up to 13,000 teachers for coming school year
May 8, 2011 by · 3 Comments
MANILA, Philippines—The Department of Education announced on Thursday its plan to hire up to 13,000 teachers to partially fill a shortage of some 50,000 teaching staff in the coming school year. … [Read more...]
Public schools get disaster-ready
March 31, 2011 by · 1 Comment
MANILA, Philippines — The spate of earthquakes in various places in the country and around the world, has got Filipinos thinking about disaster preparedness. … [Read more...]
DepEd supports teachers’ adjusted salary
June 26, 2010 by · 5 Comments
The Department of Education (DepEd) expressed its support to the immediate release of the adjusted salary of teachers that would further assure the upgrading of the quality of education in public schools. … [Read more...]
U.S. public schools stop hiring Filipino teachers
May 23, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
UNITED States public schools have stopped hiring Filipino teachers this year as the recession-proof profession faces the worst job market since the Great Depression. … [Read more...]
