News
Philippine Education News Round-up
(November 2-8, 2009)
Local News
Read to your kids but don’t talk like Kris
(Philippine Daily Inquirer 11/05/2009 Philip Tubeza)
Read to your kids, but be sure not to adopt a colegiala talk style ala show biz personality Kris Aquino, educators warn parents.
DepEd: Parents must have say on shorter classroom hours
(Inquirer 11/04/2009 Philip Tubeza)
Parents of students in overcrowded public schools must be consulted before school authorities shorten children’s class hours, DepEd says.
‘Educate people to create new products’
(Cebu Daily News 11/04/2009 Bernadette Parco)
Rather than be passive operators, skilled workers should learn how to improve electronic or mechanical systems, according to a university professor.
Schools back Pasig River rescue
(Philippine Daily Inquirer 11/03/2009 Sunshine de Leon)
Hundreds of educators gather to signify support for the Pasig River.
DepEd told: Now’s your chance to correct texts
(Inquirer 11/02/2009 Philip Tubeza)
With 11 million public school textbooks destroyed by the recent typhoons, the Department of Education has an opportunity to correct the errors in them before they are reprinted, “sick books” crusader Antonio Calipjo Go said.
CHEd urged to name inferior nursing schools
(Inquirer 11/03/2009 Kristine Alave)
The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines urges the Commission on Higher Education to reveal the names of the 177 schools with substandard nursing education so that parents and nursing students may be guided accordingly.
ESamar gov appoints 200 youths as junior ambassadors of environment
(Philippine Information Agency 11/06/2009)
Eastern Samar Governor Ben P. Evardone appointed some 200 young people from various schools in the province as Junior Ambassadors of Environment as part of the province’s effort to convey the message of the importance of preserving the environment.
New batch of scholars to leave for Australia
(Philippine Information Agency 11/06/2009)
A new batch of Filipino professionals will leave for Australia in January 2010 to pursue post-graduate studies at Australian universities.
DepEd News
Updates
Lapus: Use Internet Services Responsibly
Agoo, La Union: UNESCO awardee for advancing literacy
Lapus calls for a stronger educators' academy
DepEd & UNESCO push for ICT in education
DepEd gets Procter & Gamble support for health program
Vacant Position - Technical Adviser for Advocacy and Communications
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
Memos
No. 475 s.2009 First Bi-Annual Congress of the National Association of Public Secondary School Heads Inc.
No. 477 s.2009 8th National STEP-NSDC
No. 480 s.2009 Changes to DepEd Memo No. 461, s. 2009
No. 481 s.2009 Tri-International Conference on Language Education
No. 486 s.2009 2nd BAKU International Children Painting Competition
(Published 9 November 2009, Smart Communications Inc.)
