News
Philippine Education News Round-up
(June 4 – 10, 2007)
Local News
Filipino students go back to school amid education worries
(Inquirer 06/04/2007)
Twenty million Filipino students headed back to school last week but the situation of our education remains dismal as problems of classroom and teacher shortages, high dropout rates, and low academic proficiency still rise.
Cebu City teachers challenged to ‘simplify’
(Inquirer 06/04/2007)
After showing poor rates in the Division Achievement Test last year, teachers and students of Cebu City are being pushed by DepEd to raise their academic performance by “simplifying difficult lessons”.
Official vows: No classes under the mango tree
(Inquirer 06/04/2007)
Cebu Provincial Schools Division Superintendent Recaredo Borgonia reports that the province is short of 400 classrooms but guarantees that “no one will attend classes under the mango tree”.
DepEd integrates Muslim education in public schools
(Inquirer 06/04/2007 Jerry Esplanada)
DepEd comes up with a special Alternative Learning System program for Muslim OSY to keep them from being “recruited by both Islamic extremist groups and criminal elements”.
Classroom lack still QC school’s biggest problem
(Inquirer 06/04/2007 Margaux Ortiz)
Commonwealth Elementary School is the grade school with the biggest student population in Quezon City but can it accommodate its 13,000 students in 65 classrooms?
Cops to double as teachers in remote areas
(Inquirer 06/05/2007 Alcuin Papa)
The Philippine National Police in the Ilocos region continues its “Pulis Ko, Teacher Ko” program and assigns policemen to teach public school students in remote, rebel-infested areas.
Elementary pupils in ARMM, Central Mindanao rise by 5%
(Inquirer 06/05/2007 Charlie Sease)
Education officials in Central Mindanao and in ARMM were happy to confirm that, despite of lack of classrooms, text books, and teachers, the number of enrollees in the region increased this school year.
Intel gives away PCs designed for children, students
(Inquirer 06/06/2007 Lawrence Casiraya)
50 “Classmate PCs”, which were specially designed by Intel for use by Kindergarten to grade 12 students, were donated to an elementary school in Muntinlupa City.
3-day schedule for schools lacking classrooms proposed
(Inquirer 06/07/2007 Margaux Ortiz)
Former Quezon City High School principal Consuelo Sison urges the government to solve the classroom shortage by implementing the “three-day week schedule” scheme.
2,618 Bicol classrooms repaired, says DepEd
(Philippine Star 06/08/2007)
“Our immediate response to the situation in Bicol is proof of our commitment to the students and the parents in that region,” Education Secretary Jesli Lapus says as DepEd announces the completion of the repair and rehabilitation program for the typhoon-damaged schools in Bicol.
Teachers’ English proficiency poor
(Inquirer 06/10/2007)
Of the 53,000 teachers who took the English proficiency test of DepEd in 2004, only 19% scored at least 75 percent, the passing grade.
DepEd News
Updates
DepEd files charges against Lucena City principal
4th National Conference-Workshop of Officials and Employees Involved In Personnel Administration in the Department of Education
Memos
No. 217, s. 2007 109th Anniversary Of the Proclamation of Philippine Independence
No. 218, s. 2007 Regional Training of School Paper Advisers and Campus Journalists
No. 220, s. 2007 Red Cross Membership Program
No. 221, s. 2007 Monitoring and Evaluation System For the “Every Child A Reader Program”
No. 226, s. 2007 Amendment To DepEd Memorandum No. 137, s. 2007 (ICT Literacy Training of Public Secondary School Teachers)
N0. 228, s. 2007 Utilization of the Certificate of Rating in the National Achievement Test In Grade Six for Remedial Instruction in First Year Public High School
No. 230, s. 2007 Addenda to DepEd Memo No. 217, s. 2007
