Int’l donors, MILF ink pact on dev’t support for Bangsamoro. DAVAO CITY , Philippines – The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) forged yesterday a partnership agreement with the Mindanao Trust Fund (MTF) Reconstruction and Development Program for the implementation of the government’s Sajahatra Bangsamoro program.
The agreement was done through the MILF’s development arm, the Bangsamoro Development Authority (BDA). The Sajahatra Bangsamoro program includes support in education such as skills training, particularly to madrasah education. The MTF is comprised of several international funding agencies committed to being government’s development partners in different programs, as well as in the peace efforts in Mindanao. DisplayNews. GENEVA (23 May 2012) – Two United Nations experts on food and indigenous peoples today urged South-East Asian states not to sideline the human rights of communities across the region who derive their livelihoods, traditions and ways of life directly from their natural environments.
Philippines to build school on disputed island. B'laan Tribe Gets School Facility. Caring for textbooks. Vowing to address the problem of textbook shortages, the Department of Education (DepEd) has directed schools to take better care of learning materials to preserve their inventories.
Secretary Armin Luistro, in Department of Education Order No. 14 issued this month, directed school heads, principals and teachers to strictly observe distribution and safekeeping procedures for textbooks, teacher’s manuals and other learning materials. In his directive, Luistro said schools should keep supply losses at no more than 1 percent through regular inventory, random checks with students and early retrieval of learning materials before a school year ends. Books unaccounted for should be immediately reported and located, the order said. Vibal into e-textbook publishing - FROM THE STANDS By Domini M. Torrevillas - The Philippine Star » News » Opinion. MANILA, Philippines - A man was convicted of homicide after he said he was somewhere else when his neighbor was killed in 2005, but admitted to injuring his neighbor’s partner when she tried to protect the victim during the same incident.
Rolando Castillo was convicted of homicide for the death of Eduardo Arguilles in October 2005. The original charge filed by the prosecutor’s office was murder. In an April 25 decision, Judge Genie Gapas-Agbada of the Regional Trial Court Branch 221 sentenced Castillo to a minimum of six years to as long as 14 years, eight months and a day in prison. Advocates push for mother tongue-based teaching in schools. Improving Philippine education - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos. THE COUNTRY?
S spending for education as a percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) is shrinking compared with those of other countries in the region. Partly for this reason, the Philippines suffers from a shortage of classrooms even as participation rates deteriorate. The elementary-school participation rate dropped from 96.8 percent in school year 2000-2001 to 85.1 percent in 2008-2009, while the high-school participation rate slipped from 66.1 percent to 60.7 percent. Academic performance in Science and Math among elementary and high school students remains dismal. Bringing Active Learning to Classrooms in the Philippines. Secondary school teachers from the Division of Surigao City in the Philippines are working together to implement teaching strategies to engage students in active learning in their classrooms.
The teachers learned strategies at a professional development workshop facilitated by Maria Ruth Edradan, a Physics and Scientific Research teacher and 2011 International Leaders in Education Program (ILEP) fellow. Edradan worked with a group of five ILEP science teachers to design this professional development training at Clemson University in Clemson, SC. Philippines launches improved basic education program. MANILA, April 24 (Xinhua) -- The Philippine government formally launched on Tuesday the new educational program, which aims to add more years to the basic education of Filipinos.
President Benigno S. Aquino III led the launching of the Department of Education's new curriculum for kindergarten to Year 12 (K to 12) program. Aquino said that the new educational program will equip Filipinos with more knowledge to make them more competitive. Philippines takes learning to the 3D world. Philippines to launch digital classrooms. John Bessey, Microsoft Philippines Managing Director, and Esther Vibal, Chairperson of the Vibal Group of Companies, shake hands during the Annual Innovative Education Forum organized by Microsoft to seal the partnership between the two companies.
Can you imagine a classroom without chalk and blackboard, manila paper, cartolinas, one-fourth sheets of paper, pencils, erasers, and attendance sheets? The leading Philippine educational materials publisher Vibal Publishing House Inc. and international computer software company Microsoft have not only imagined it, they are working on making that a reality. "Pushcart classrooms" educate Filipino street kids. The "pushcart classroom" brings school to street kids, complete with school supplies, tables and chairs, a hot meal and a host of volunteers.
Correspondent: Simone Orendain Speaker: Yolanda Peñalosa, public school teacher; Marvin, kindergarten student; Efren Peñaflorida, Dynamic Teen Company; Marietoni Candelaria, student; Raffy Alcantara, pushcart volunteer ORENDAIN: On a hot, sunny Saturday morning dozens of kids sit under a tarp on a street corner, practicing reading, writing and math. They're on plastic tables and chairs borrowed from the local town council in Novaliches, just north of Manila. A mint green-coloured cupboard on wheels sits near the entranceway. Education - PHILIPPINES: Reforms in Higher Education Key to Growth and Competitiveness. Contacts:In Manila: David Llorito (632) 917-3047E-mail: dllorito@worldbank.orgKitchie Hermoso (632) 917-3013E-mail: comphilippines@worldbank.orgIn Washington: Mohamad al-Arief 1 (202) 458-5964E-mail: malarief@worldbank.org MANILA, MARCH 1, 2012—The Philippines has achieved impressive gains in expanding access to higher education among Filipinos but there remains a need for suitable skills that will enable the nation’s workforce to become more competitive and help bolster economic growth, according to World Bank Lead Economist Emanuela di Gropello.
Speaking before participants of a higher education workshop organized by the Commission on Higher Education ( CHED) and the World Bank (WB) at the Edsa Shangri-la Hotel in Mandaluyong City, Ms. Gropello cited the increasing importance of building skills in science, technology, engineering and mathematics—the “STEM” disciplines—in raising workforce productivity and capacity for innovation essential to overall economic expansion. According to Dr. Angara says more comprehensive educational reforms needed.