Under its proposed budget for 2020, the Department of Education (DepEd) plans to hire 10,000 additional teachers plus 5,000 non-teaching staff, announced Education Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones. DepEd plans to allocate Php1.27 billion for the hiring of 10,000 teachers and…
It is common knowledge that teachers are often tasked to do non-teaching responsibilities, especially when they work in public schools. But a lawmaker wants to solve that problem by filing a bill that seeks to remove the non-teaching responsibilities of…
While there was a move some years ago to include the Korean language as one of the language subjects that young learners in the Philippines could learn as part of their regular curriculum, one Korean lady beat them to it…
As debate continues on whether it is a good idea to impose a “no-homework” policy on students either during weekends or throughout the week, several people put forth their own ideas about the good and bad points of the proposed…
Several years ago, the photo of a humble nipa hut proudly displaying a ‘Top 2’ tarpaulin went viral. It became a beautiful testament to how a poor fisherman’s daughter overcame many challenges to rank Top 2 in the September 2015…
People often mistake him for a Kindergarten or Grade 1 pupil, but 23-year-old Ian Francis Manga does not mind because he knows exactly who he is and what he is capable of – and the truth is that he is…
A 19-year-old girl earned praise on the internet after she earned her PhD at such a young age, making her the youngest post-grad student not just in her home country of India but in the rest of Asia as well.…
Climate change and deforestation doomed Mother Earth, but two Filipino lawmakers want to make a change to save the world by requiring all students in the country to plant at least 10 trees, if they want to graduate! Principally authored…
Good news to all civilian government workers! Acting Budget Secretary Wendel E. Avisado recently announced that there will be another round of pay hike in 2020 – and funds for the salary increase have already been included in the budget…
As debates on the “no-homework” bills continue, another lawmaker is seeking to protect the teachers from the many problems they also have to face on a daily basis. According to Basilan Rep. Mujiv Hataman, if the students have to be…