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Philippine Education News Round-up
(June 8-14, 2009)

Local News

DepEd honors model students
(Philippine Daily Inquirer 06/13/2009 Jerry Esplanada)
Congratulations to Zara Donna Domingo and Kevin Catapusan, students of Smart Schools partner Agusan National High School, for being granted the Pambansang Gawad sa Ulirang Kabataan award.

P500,000 police scholarship from PLDT-Smart
(Inquirer.net 06/08/2009 Abigail Kwok)
The PLDT-Smart Foundation Inc. donates P500,000 worth of scholarship to children of qualified personnel of the Philippine National Police.

DepEd calms parents over H1N1 pandemic
(Philippine Daily Inquirer 06/12/2009 Edson Tandoc)
Education Secretary Jesli Lapus asks parents not to panic despite the declaration of the World Health Organization that the Influenza A (H1N1) has reached pandemic level, saying the safeguards instituted in schools remain.

No stopping college opening on Monday—CHEd
(Philippine Daily Inquirer 06/10/2009 Edson Tandoc)
Universities call on students and employees to take precautionary measures by washing hands, using hand sanitizers and even using facial masks.

College students warned vs. H1N1 spread
(Philippine Daily Inquirer 06/14/2009 Philip Tubeza)
Disinfect the school buildings, monitor the dormitories, and inspect even the canteens around campuses, the Commission on Higher Education orders universities and colleges.

Filipino kids win in science contest in Texas
(Inquirer.net 06/09/2009)
Six senior students from Quezon City Science High School received two silver medals for the Philippines at the 2009 International Sustainable World Energy, Engineering, and Environment Project (I-SWEEEP) Olympiad in Houston, Texas.

Chinese-Filipino student tops int’l math tilt
(Philippine Daily Inquirer 06/14/2009 Jerry Esplanada)
A student from Zamboanga City took home a gold medal in the 2009 International Regions Mathematics competition held in the United States.

40 poor Muntinlupa kids go to school
(Inquirer.net 06/14/2009 PDI)
The Send a Child to School project aims to address the formal education needs of 40 disadvantaged children in Muntinlupa City.

Exec: Add more years to RP’s basic education
(Cebu Daily News 06/12/2009 Marian Codilla)
Adding more years in basic education in the country can help improve the quality of graduates and help them land jobs, says Chito Salazar, president of the Philippine Business for Education.

Make your 7-year-old comprehend, not memorize
(Philippine Daily Inquirer 06/09/2009 Germelina Lising)
Psychologists cite important factors and critical structures in the thinking processes of the brain, which need to be developed in middle childhood.

Schools defy DepEd’s ‘no fee’ directive
(Philippine Daily Inquirer 06/08/2009)
Education Secretary Jesli A. Lapus reports that many public school principals and teachers continued to ignore DepEd Order No. 48 (Series of 2009) strictly prohibiting collection of fees.

UP puts up isolation rooms for A(H1N1) cases
(Philippine Daily Inquirer 06/12/2009 Julie Aurelio)
Dormitories in the University of the Philippines campus in Diliman, Quezon City, set up isolation rooms where students believed to have contracted the influenza A(H1N1) virus would be placed before their transfer to a hospital.

Kids learn to learn without fear
(Inquirer Southern Luzon 06/11/2009 Madonna Virola)
The "Peer Educators' Training, Learn Without Fear, Manual Development on the Elimination of Gender-Based Violence in School Project" seeks to teach students and teachers to end gender-based violence in the classroom.

Lapu schools facing book shortage
(Cebu Daily News 06/10/2009 Jhunnex Napallacan)
Education officials send their supply officers in their Lapu-Lapu City division to verify reports on the scarcity of books in some schools in the city.

DepEd News

Updates

Mga bagong guro sa pampublikong paaralan ngayong Araw ng Kalayaan  
Hiring of teachers for public schools highlights June 12 celebration  
Lapus urges communities to replicate Zamboanga's 'best practice'  
Lapus assigns office for PTA concerns  
Lapus: 'Oplan Balik Eskwela a success'  
Young Filipino scientists bag awards at the 2009 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair  

Memos

No. 249 s.2009 DepEd assistance in the administration of the 2009 Licensure Examination for Teachers
No. 250 s.2009 2nd Convention of the Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology Society of the Philippines
No. 251 s.2009 Participation in the 8th Philippine Robotics Olympiad
No. 252 s.2009 Preventing Dengue H-Fever in Schools
No. 253 s.2009 26th Asia-Pacific Regional Scout Jamboree
No. 254 s.2009 National Youth Commission’s Campaign for the Registration of New Voters
No. 256 s.2009 Customer Relations and Office Decorum Training for Frontline Personnel

Orders

No. 54 s.2009 Revised Guidelines Governing PTAs at the School Level
No. 55 s.2009 Guidelines on Offering Foreign Languages as Elective Subjects in the 3rd and 4th Year Levels of High Schools
No. 56 s.2009 Immediate Construction of Water and Hand Washing Facilities in All Schools for the Prevention of Influenza A(H1N1)
No. 57 s.2009 Addendum to DepEd Order No. 28, s. 2009
No. 58 s.2009 Designating a Focal Office to Handle Concerns and Activities relative to PTAs and ITS Federations

(Published 15 June 2009, Smart Communications, Inc.)