Due to the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), everyone is told to stay at home. Mass gatherings are prohibited – and that includes classes and the usual end-of-school-year rites such as graduations and moving up ceremonies. A lot of students felt…
President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the recommendation of the Inter Agency Task Force (IATF) against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to move the opening of classes for SY 2020-2021 to September, instead of the usual June schedule. “Lahat ng eskuwelahan…
Grade 6 students recently earned praise for sharing their class savings to COVID-19 cause, even if they could have kept the money for themselves! The sweet gesture went viral, with many netizens saying that these students are role models to…
Bb. Pilipinas-Universe 2011 Shamcey Supsup-Lee is more than just a pretty face! Before finishing as the third runner-up in Miss Universe 2011, Shamcey already had excellent achievements in the academic field. She recently admitted to being ‘grade conscious’ for most…
Public school teachers in Central Visayas were able to raise nearly Php4 million for COVID-19 frontliners. For their kindness, the teachers were praised by netizens who wished that everyone else would be as generous and thoughtful as them. It could…
Teachers are not just educators, but many also become their students’ second parents. And that role is religiously accepted by many teachers, many of whom go above and beyond their call of duty to help their learners. Take for example…
With the Philippines still experiencing a daily increase in the number of COVID-19 patients, ranging from 100 to 300 new cases per day, experts from the University of the Philippines (UP) urged the government to suspend classes until December 2020.…
In a press briefing, Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Leonor Briones reminded students and their parents that while it could not be denied that having good grades and high ranks still matter, these are not the only surefire formula for…
Just like all other regular workers of the government, teachers continue to receive their monthly salaries despite not reporting to work amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of this, a group of teachers at a school in Ilocos Sur decided to…
A student from Nepal has caught the world’s attention with her impressive handwriting – and you are surely going to be amazed at how she is able to write so beautifully! Prakriti Malla, a student of 8th standard at a…