News
Philippine Education News Round-up
(January 4-10, 2010)
Local News
DepEd seeks higher test scores for RP students
(Philippine Daily Inquirer 01/08/2010 Philip Tubeza)
The Department of Education is hopeful that students will get higher scores in the National Achievement Test to be held in March.
Lapus: Full payment of bonus assured
(Philippine Information Agency 01/08/2010)
Reports from the regional offices of the Department of Education show that the P7,000 bonus of public school teachers had been fully paid out.
Teachers decry gov’t failure to keep 5.6-M children in school
(Philippine Daily Inquirer 01/10/2010 Jerry Esplanada)
The Alliance of Concerned Teachers assails the government’s continued failure to provide formal education to young Filipinos.
DepEd acknowledges shortfall in teachers’ bonuses
(Inquirer 01/08/2010 Edson Tandoc Jr.)
The Department of Education announces that all of its teachers received their Christmas bonuses early this month albeit partially.
Ifugao opens first university
(Inquirer 01/07/2010 Melvin Gascon)
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo leads the opening of Ifugao State University, the first university in Ifugao.
USAID taps Silliman for ‘Tudlo Mindanao’
(Cebu Daily News 01/05/2010)
The United States Agency for International Development partners with Siliman University School for the implementation of the Tudlo (Teach) Mindanao project.
Mt. Province has 20 more national high schools
(Philippine Information Agency 01/09/2010 Juliet Saley)
Twenty more secondary schools in Mt. Province were nationalized last year following the approval into law by President Gloria Arroyo.
Out-of-school youths finish bayong-making training
(Philippine Information Agency 01/09/2010 Mai Gevera)
About 26 out-of-school youths in Davao graduated in the basic skills training on bayong (native bag)-making, a project under the YES or Youth Entrepreneurship Support Project of the Department of Trade and Industry.
DepEd News
Updates
National Achievement Test set in March
DepEd to replace teachers' bonus it lost to robbers
DepEd honors best reading teachers and students
DepEd closely monitors schools in Mt. Mayon area
2008 ALS Accreditation and Equivalency Test Passers -- (Elementary Level - 2,514 passers out of 12,486; Secondary Level - 22,430 out of 97,756
DepED Internet Connectivity Project (DepED Order No. 50, s. 2009) - Enclosures
Orders
No. 119 s.2009 Additional Guidelines on the List of Approved Supplementary Reading and Preference Materials
Memos
No. 528 s.2009 First Philippine Conference Workshop on Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education
(Published 11 January 2010, Smart Communications Inc.)
