Archive for the ‘Education’ Category

Anna Valmero
INQUIRER.net
QUEZON CITY, Philippines — The Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) has opened its seventh e-learning center in Loyola Heights under its eSkwela project.
The CICT through its Human Capital Development Group (CICT HCDG) launched in 2005 eSkwela to provide disadvantaged youth with educational opportunities to help reduce the digital divide and enhance their [...]

by Mike Hall
from AFL-CIO Blog
Yesterday, we told you about the new national high-skills education and training initiative the AFL-CIO Executive Council called for in a policy statement approved at the council’s summer meeting in Chicago. Here’s a closer look.
The AFT and the Machinists (IAM) spearheaded the development of the education and training blueprint that brings [...]

Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines—According to the Department of Education, or DepEd, students who make it to the third grade are more likely to stay in school. Unfortunately, the DepEd reports, the net enrollment rate in the elementary grades has dropped from 90.29 percent five academic years ago to 83.22 percent in the last school year.
In [...]

Lawrence Casiraya
INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Education is targeting to equip more than 6,000 public high schools in the country with computer labs this year.
More than 3,950 high schools have so far been given PCs and other equipment, said Paul Soriano, DepEd technical services director.
“We are targeting the remaining 2,000 this year and we [...]

Ronnel Domingo
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Corporate funding for poverty reduction efforts and social programs increased 142 percent to P18.5 billion in 2002-2007 from P7.6 billion in the previous five-year period, as corporations realized that “doing good makes good business sense,” the League of Corporate Foundations (LCF) said.
LCF chairperson Marilou Erni said the bulk of the private sector’s [...]

Lawrence Casiraya
INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines — Intel and the Department of Education (DepEd) have launched an e-learning website designed to enhance learning of Math and Science for high school students.
Skoool.ph, which can be accessed for free, makes extensive use of multimedia in presenting key math and science concepts. Each topic consists of lessons and exercises presented in [...]

Manila Times
Just 5,286, or 9.99 percent, of the 52,928 examinees nationwide passed the Career Service professional and sub-professional written examinations given on March 9, the Civil Service Commission reported in a press release Tuesday.
The total number includes 3,790 examinees who passed the professional level, and 1,496 the sub-professional tests.
The Cordillera Administrative Region posted the highest [...]

Ana Marie Pamintuan
Philippine Star
There is another casualty of the combination of soaring food and fuel prices, joblessness and a booming population: education.
A study undertaken by the National Statistical Coordination Board showed that enrollment in primary school dropped to 83 percent last year from 90 percent five years earlier. The figure is worse for high school, [...]

Michelle Remo, Beverly T. Natividad
Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines—One in six school-age children is being deprived of education and the number is rising steadily, the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) said Monday, indicating that the country is still far from its goal of providing education to all.
The percentage of children enrolled in primary school was [...]

Luis Carlo S. Liberato
INQUIRER.net
MANILA–DISTANCE not only makes the heart grow fonder; it has also kept most children of women overseas Filipino workers from dropping out of school.
Thus cites economist Alvin Ang of the University of Santo Tomas in his recently released study titled “Determining the Social Costs of Overseas Filipino Workers’ Remittances: A Check through [...]