News
Philippine Education News Round-up
(December 1-6, 2009)
Local News
Delightfully visionary children’s show marks 40-year milestone
(Philippine Daily Inquirer 12/04/2009 Nestor Torre)
Forty-year old “Sesame Street” show proves that television could be used to teach young viewers.
Educational aid for kids of media workers in massacre
(Inquirer.net 12/02/2009)
Mabuting Pilipino offers educational assistance to poor and deserving students who are children of media workers killed in Ampatuan, Maguindanao.
Mixed classes make for better learners
(Inquirer 12/06/2009 Edson Tandoc)
A teacher in Hong Kong who specializes in “gifted and talented education” offers a solution that will make kids “happy” to do homework.
2 Pinoy students get perfect scores in int’l math tilt
(Inquirer 12/06/2009 Jerry Esplanada)
Two young Filipino math wizards won gold medals in the just concluded 2009 Philippine International Mathematics Competition for elementary and high school students.
Toyota, UP team up for Asian culture
(Inquirer 12/03/2009 Abigail Ho)
Toyota Motor Phil. donated a P100-million two-storey, multi-purpose building with a 500-seat auditorium to the Asian Center of the University of the Philippines-Diliman for its 50,000-volume collection on Asian studies, museum on Philippine ethnography, and international conferences.
DepEd Cebu City trains Science teachers
(Cebu Daily News 12/01/2009)
The Department of Education Cebu City Division organizes a faculty development training program to enhance the teaching skills of Science teachers.
RP attaché in Middle East to focus on education concerns
(Philippine Information Agency 12/05/2009)
With the growing number of Overseas Filipino Workers in the Middle East and the establishment of Philippine schools in the region, the country is set to deploy its first attaché to focus on educational needs of the Filipino families there.
DepEd News
Updates
DepEd family unites to honor martyred principal
Lapus acknowledges SM Supermalls for assistance to typhoon-hit schools
Lapus: Hold simple Christmas party
Muntinlupa Science HS: one of Microsoft innovative schools worldwide
Lapus: Let’s make television programming more child-friendly
Orders
No. 116 s.2009 Guidelines on the grant of teacher salary subsidy for the education service contracting program of the government assistance to students and teachers in private education for SY 2009-2010.
Memos
No. 517 s.2009 Annual Celebration of the National Government Employees’ Week
No. 518 s.2009 Changes to DepEd Memo No. 418, s. 2009
No. 519 s.2009 Web Page Development Training Workshop for the 48 Regional ICT Tech-Voc High Schools
No. 520 s.2009 Dissemination of House Resolution No. 522
(Published 07 December 2009, Smart Communications Inc.)
