On March 28, DepEd Secretary Armin Luistro presented “The State of Education” to the members of the Philippine Business for Education. He emphasized t
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - An estimated three million elementary and high school students in public schools across the country are graduating as school y
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - Two girls are hunched outside their classroom in Manuel Quezon Elementary school, a public school in Tondo, Manila with a stud
Read MoreThe Philippine Constructors Association is seeking government support to improve the quality of education in engineering discipline and to make qual
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — The United Nations has committed a total of $667 million in four development and social services projects in the Philippines o
Read MoreThis is a re-posted press release. The Senate today approved two bills on third and final reading; one seeking to stop discrimination in the workplac
Read MoreNew kindergartens will be constructed throughout the country as the Department of Education (DepEd) expands its public preschool program. In an ord
Read MoreThis is a re-posted op-ed piece. The population continues to grow rapidly and most schools are overcrowded. In the tertiary level, enrollment is high
Read MoreTHE Philippines has shut down three allegedly substandard maritime training establishments in the face of the European Commission’s threat to dereco
Read MoreTHE BUSINESS Processing Association of the Philippines (BPA/P) will propose to the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) the inclusion of a service
Read MoreTHE PHILIPPINES remains behind schedule -- by a decade or longer in a number of indicators -- three years before the deadline to meet the so-called
Read MoreFILIPINO ENGINEERS could soon be crowded out by their better-trained Southeast Asian counterparts without strong industry-academe partnership and to
Read MoreThere are some 67,000 government posts begging to be filled even as nearly three million Filipinos looking for work remain jobless. The problem is
Read MoreTechnology has made almost every experience virtual—from making friends and talking with them to doing business with other people. Education has fol
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - The University of Bradford School of Management (BSOM), UK continues to extend its reach in Asia with the recent unveiling of
Read MoreTHE GOVERNMENT should address bottlenecks that tend to drag the country’s achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a United Nations offic
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - With an approved budget of P238 billion for 2012 and a lot of help from the private sector, the Department of Education (DepEd
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - Thousands of Filipinos who are seeking jobs in Information Technology-Business Process Outsourcing (IT-BPO) but lack skills to
Read MoreThis is a re-posted editorial piece. MANILA, Philippines — In material or economic development, the Philippines sticks out like a sore thumb for havi
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — The 37th Philippine Business Conference (PBC), the country's biggest annual business meeting in the country, is urging the gov
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