News
Philippine Education News Round-up
(July 13-19, 2009)
Local News
Filipino ‘mathletes’ bag 27 medals
(Philippine Daily Inquirer 07/19/2009 Jerry Esplanada)
Filipino math aces won 27 medals in the 10th World Youth Invitational
Mathematics Intercities Competition held recently in Durban, South
Africa.
Students bring service to kids at ‘Ako Mismo’
(Philippine Daily Inquirer 07/19/2009)
Hundreds of students take part in the “Ako Mismo Kikilos ... para sa mga bata ng Negros” in Bacolod City.
‘Sagip Guro’ to save 3 teachers
(Inquirer.net 07/17/2009 Julie Alipala)
Teachers lead a multisectoral rally to call for the release of three public school teachers seized in Zamboanga.
Schools to hold vigils for 3 seized teachers
(Philippine Daily Inquirer 07/16/2009 Jerry Esplanada)
Education Secretary Jesli A. Lapus and the 500,000-plus teaching and
non-teaching personnel of the Department of Education have jointly
called for the immediate release of the three kidnapped public school
teachers from Zamboanga Sibugay.
Town builds classrooms at half the cost
(Philippine Daily Inquirer 07/19/2009)
The Pangasinan local government pooled and used funds to build classrooms at half the cost.
Flu spread threatens classes in Tacloban
(Inquirer Visayas 07/16/2009 Vicente Labro)
A plan to temporarily close all schools in Tacloban to stop the spread
of the Influenza A(H1N1) virus looms as health officials expresses
alarm at the rapid increase of flu cases in schools.
Putting text messaging to good use in schools
(Philippine Daily Inquirer 07/13/2009 Tina Arceo-Dumlao)
Text2Teach program taps SMS to improve the quality of public education.
RP outsmiles neighbors, raises P1M for UNICEF
(Philippine Daily Inquirer 07/13/2009 Daxim Lucas)
As part of its commitment to UNICEF’s children’s literacy campaign,
Sony Ericsson donates P1 for every smile captured in its camera phone
kiosks scattered in shopping malls around the country.
More schools suspend classes due to A(H1N1)
(Inquirer.net 07/13/2009)
Eleven more schools in San Pablo City in Laguna have students who
tested positive for Influenza A(H1N1), prompting the city health office
to advise them to suspend classes.
Tesda stops scholarships raffle
(Inquirer Visayas 07/16/2009 Carla Gomez)
The TechnIcal Education and Skills Development Authority drops a plan
to hold a raffle of scholarships because of adverse reactions to it.
DepEd News
Orders
No. 75 s.2009 Guidelines for the Implementation of FY 2009 School-Based Management Grants
No. 74 s.2009 Institutionalizing Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education
No. 73 s.2009 Prescribing the Minimum Tools and Equipment Standards for Tech-Voc Public High Schools
Memos
No. 315 s.2009 Revisions on DepEd Memo No. 514, s. 2008
No. 314 s.2009 The Global Filipino Mind
No. 311 s.2009 4th National Congress and First Visayan Congress on Good Citizenship
No. 309 s.2009 8th Annual Convention of the Public Schools District Supervisors Association
No. 308 s.2009 National Workshop on Defining Requirements for School Information System and Validation System Design
(Published 20 July 2009, Smart Communications Inc.)
