Philippine Education System

[mikael21]

DepEd to stop holding RAT next school year

REGIONAL achievement tests (RAT) will no longer be conducted starting next school year.
Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Armin Luistro said the national achievement test (NAT) will be the only assessment tool to measure the performance of students and schools effective this June.
Luistro, in an order dated Jan. 20, said the stopping of regional achievement tests, and similar assessment tools used by regions and divisions, is in line with the implementation of the K to 12 enhanced basic education program.
DepEd 7 Director Recaredo Borgonia said he supports the move, but he hopes that Luistro will expand the coverage of Nat to include other subjects and school year levels.
He said RAT covers subjects and school year levels not included in the NAT.

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[the glimpser]

Retail giant, partners pool P17M to build more schoolhouses nationwide

One of the country’s largest corporations and an international bank are providing some P17 million to help government address the perennial shortage in public school classrooms.

The SM Group, a retail and real estate giant, along with Deutsche Bank, signed agreements with the Department of Education (DepEd) to fund up to 26 classrooms in selected schools.

The assistance came as DepEd doubled its classroom construction target this year to some 30,000 across the country to reduce by more than half the current shortage.

Public schools are currently in need of some 50,000 classrooms to prevent congestion and reach the ideal classroom-student ratio of one to 45.

The project with the SM Group and Deutsche Bank will be under the Adopt-a-School program, “one of DepEd’s most effective and creative ways” of working with the private sector.

Luistro said earlier the classroom construction program would be in full swing in the next year and a half through similar public-private partnerships (PPP), DepEd’s annual budget and cooperation with nongovernment organizations and local government units (LGUs).

He said some 30,000 classrooms could be built within 2012, almost twice the number of classrooms that DepEd either finished or started in 2011, which was about 16,000.

The mass construction program would include 10,000 through the DepEd budget, 10,000 through co-funding schemes with LGUs, and another 10,000 through PPP [public-private partnership], Luistro said.

The remaining 20,000 could be finished from January to June in 2013.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/132475/...ses-nationwide

[Parchie]

Originally Posted by the glimpser

Retail giant, partners pool P17M to build more schoolhouses nationwide


http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/132475/...ses-nationwide

That P17M could translate into about 34 or so schoolrooms if we base the cost at P500.000 per classroom: assume cost of land per sq. meter = P6,000 and a standard classroom size of 7m X 7m; 7 X 7 X P6,000 = P294,000; cost of materials less than P210,000. Take away the cost of land, we could make 80 classrooms out of P17M.

IMO, DepEd should be talking about billions of pesos to fill the additional requirement they have imposed upon themselves by implementing this K+12 program alone! That does not even consider the need for classrooms under the previous system. I guess the number was around 68,800 way back 2011.

Please check math if you feel it's wrong.

[Ady001]

Maganda din sana kung yung mga ATM ads ng SM wherein one can donate a simple 5 pesos to help a cause.

But I am now slowly admiring Luistro; tahimik pero matinik...

[HER]

Originally Posted by Ady001

Maganda din sana kung yung mga ATM ads ng SM wherein one can donate a simple 5 pesos to help a cause.

But I am now slowly admiring Luistro; tahimik pero matinik...

Pumunta yan dito sa school namin si Luistro, ang unang sinabi nya sa mga teachers na huwag ng maghanda ng anung mga pagkain na magastos kasi kakain lang siya ng gulay at isda at kung ano lang ang available.

Hindi nga nakapaghanda ang mga teacher kasi surprise visit pero kumain siya kasabay ng mga teachers kung ano lang ang baon ng mga teachers.

nakakatawa nga kasi nag offer ang principal na magbili ng softdrinks pero hindi pinabili ni Luistro.

yan ang tunay na nagserbesyo sa taong bayan, hindi feeling boss.

[Parchie]

Group launches kindergarten on wheels

IN an initiative to help the Department of Education accommodate five-year olds in areas in Metro Manila affected by a classroom shortage, the Bagong Henerasyon party-list group launched the Kindergarten on Wheels Project.

A memorandum of agreement was inked between Education Secretary Armin Luistro and BH party-list Rep. Bernadette Herrera to jointly implement the project during simple rites held at President Corazon Aquino Elementary School in Batasan Hills.

Also present were Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista, Quezon City Schools Division Superintendent Corazon Rubio, and school principal Paul Medrano.

Luistro said DepEd welcomes the innovation to make education accessible to everyone and to provide all five-year olds with proper educational interventions in preparation for the implementation of the K-to-12 program.

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I hope they change their minds and assign these school on wheels to the hinterlands of our country. The move is good but it doesn't hit where it will matter most. The real shortage of classrooms I think are in those places in the far-flung barangays. But what can we do? The classes start come June and we still need a lot of classrooms! Lofty goals not properly supported with money by our government will surely be a bad thing. Do we always have to do things this way?

[Ady001]

Originally Posted by HER

Pumunta yan dito sa school namin si Luistro, ang unang sinabi nya sa mga teachers na huwag ng maghanda ng anung mga pagkain na magastos kasi kakain lang siya ng gulay at isda at kung ano lang ang available.

Hindi nga nakapaghanda ang mga teacher kasi surprise visit pero kumain siya kasabay ng mga teachers kung ano lang ang baon ng mga teachers.

nakakatawa nga kasi nag offer ang principal na magbili ng softdrinks pero hindi pinabili ni Luistro.

yan ang tunay na nagserbesyo sa taong bayan, hindi feeling boss.

I hope he continues that; thankfully he's not using DepEd as a vehicle to usher in the RH Bill...

[Acnologia]

Kukulangin ang budget ng pnas para sa K to 12. kulang classrooms, teachers paeti facilities.

Paano na?

[Ady001]

Then we can call up all those from the private sector to donate (which includes me) and I'll happily oblige.

[Parchie]

Originally Posted by Acnologia

Kukulangin ang budget ng pnas para sa K to 12. kulang classrooms, teachers paeti facilities.

Paano na?

Solutions that I heard and gathered:

• Gagawa daw ng additional classrooms. Maraming nagsasabi kung ilan, minsan pera ang sinasabi, minsan yung bilang ng kulang. Ang pinaka latest assessment ng isang regional director is that a bigger part of additional classrooms will not available this June (they made statements that K+12 starts this year come June 2012).
• A teacher-neighbor intimated that they have subdivided some of their big rooms to make additional rooms. They'll just have to jam-pack their students.
• Rooms and spaces intended for indoor activities of the schools are going to be utilized as rooms.
• Far-flung barangays will have to do their classes under the shades of trees around the school premises.

This and more indicates that DepEd planned things as we see it. Kodus to DepEd!

[Parchie]

Originally Posted by Ady001

Then we can call up all those from the private sector to donate (which includes me) and I'll happily oblige.

Yep. As if those amounts are within our purview!

A serious thing now, a self-imposed serious problem at that, IMHO! What else can people do? Once people support an endeavor, they'll eat the dust if ever the program/s gets snagged to save face. Then, perhaps we can turn around and blame other people except ourselves?

[Ady001]

As long as I see my money working, my investments are worth keeping.

[RonnieR]

The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) is firm and bold in their moves nowadays. They recently ordered the closure of maritime courses at Philippine Maritime Institute PMI - country's biggest in this field.

Now, they ordered the closure of International Academy of Management and Economics in Makati.

Both cases were due to "failure to comply with education quality standards".


International Academy of Management and Economics school building in Makati


CHEd orders Makati school closed
Appeal ‘denied with finality’
By Tarra Quismundo
Philippine Daily Inquirer
10:34 pm | Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

The Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) has ordered the closure of a business school on Metropolitan Avenue in Makati City for failing to comply with education quality standards.

In a notice dated Feb. 3 which was released just the other day, CHEd Chair Patricia Licuanan announced the issuance of a final closure order against International Academy of Management and Economics (IAME) for “gross and serious violations and continuous defiance and noncompliance by the institution [with] CHED Policies, Standards and Guidelines.”

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/146319/...-school-closed

[Ady001]

Nothing international here, more like a red light district to me...

They have to be serious with their campaigns. Next in line are the phoney Recto diplomas and the creation of a university in Recto

[HER]

Companies, employees join hands for education
By: Tarra Quismundo
Philippine Daily Inquirer
1:15 am | Monday, February 20th, 2012


MANILA, Philippines—From providing free advertising and promotion to initiating fund-raisers among employees, corporations are making all the right moves for education.

Joining the ranks of Filipinos who have lent a hand to the cause, companies both here and abroad are taking part in TEN Moves (The Entire Nation Moves), a public-private effort to address the classroom backlog in public schools by raising P6 billion by October this year.

Initiated by the Department of Education (DepEd) and corporate-led education advocacy group 57-75 movement, the campaign hopes to encourage Filipinos around the world to contribute P10 a day for 10 months for the construction of new public school classrooms.

“Whenever we talk to people about it, we sense that people are excited because, first, it’s easy to do, it’s very doable,” says TEN Moves convenor Mario Derequito.

“It’s very clear, very easy, and time-bound. And because it’s time-bound, there is a sense of urgency. You know that you will not be giving forever. [You can give] even just once,” he tells the Inquirer.

For one, cinemas in Ayala Malls have started airing TEN Moves advertisements in Metro Manila, Pampanga, Cebu and Davao, according to TEN Moves.

The ads will run until the campaign ends in October 2012.

Ayala Corp. has also handed over donations and pledges from employees, apart from the P100,000 it gave through its youth development arm, the Ayala Young Leaders Congress.

Multinationals including Coca-Cola, Thomson Reuters and Integrated Microelectronics Inc. have also initiated their own fund-raisers for TEN Moves, encouraging employees to pitch in.

DN Steel, Lafarge Cement and members of the Filipino-Chinese Chamber of Commerce also gathered funds for the construction of a primary school in Mt. Pulag in Benguet.

Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp. also donated $65,000 (about P2.8 million) to fund the reconstruction of classrooms in Northern Mindanao, where schools were wiped out following the devastation of Tropical Storm Sendong in December.

[Parchie]

By HANNAH L. TORREGOZA
February 17, 2012, 4:20pm

MANILA, Philippines — Senator Pilar “Pia” Cayetano Friday expressed concern over the move of the Department of Education (DepEd) to remove Science from the roster of subjects for Grades 1 and 2 saying it would further slow down the competitiveness of Filipino students and would greatly affect efforts of the government to promote science development in the country.

Cayetano said this is worrisome as the lawmakers also take into consideration concerns regarding the shift to a K to 12 curriculum.

“How can we improve our ranking and competitiveness in Science if it’s not a core subject?” said Cayetano, who chairs the Senate Committee on Women and Youth.

Though DepEd officials have promised it would integrated in the latter part of a student’s education, she said what counts is to make it Science an integral part of the curriculum.

“Whether it’s integrated, whether you call it a separate subject, as long as it is a significant part of the curriculum, that is what counts,” said Cayetano.

“But the problem with integration is that it might end up a ‘case to case’ basis for each teacher , how she is going to focus only on Science.

“The reason why you have a separate subject named Science, English, is because it’s required na for that amount of time, yun yung focus mo,” she pointed out.

Cayetano said she fully believes that the reason the Philippines is lagging behind other countries specifically in science and technology is because of lack of teachers that specialize in science.

“If our premise is that the reason why we’re lagging behind in Science and Math, is because 10 years lang yung ating basic education, sa ibang countries 12, ako I beg to disagree that it is the sole reason.

“Baka the reason why we’re lagging behind is also because, eh my gosh wala man lang tayong Science teachers. And the teachers we have, very few of them specialize in Science and Math. Those factors may be more important than the lack of years,” she said.

Cayetano said she has requested education officials to produce a copy of the curriculum so that lawmakers can assess the feasibility of having integrated subjects.

The senator also said that in adding two years to basic elementary, the government should ensure enough teachers are available in teaching subjects.

“The question again is, do we have enough teachers for the whole country who’ll be able to teach all these subjects or skills? How can we start having Grades 11 and 12 when we don’t have sufficient teachers to teach vocational skills,” she said after noting that DepEd will be introducing electives starting Grade 9 in which pupils can choose whether to take up more academic subjects or venture into arts, music, physical education or vocational courses.

DepEd Secretary Armin Luistro said the reason why Science would be integrated into other subjects and be introduced starting Grade 3 is to make learning less stress for pupils.

“The overall design of the new curriculum to be introduced and implemented this coming June to both Grade 1 and First Year high school students is based on the idea that we should be taking the students where they are,” Luistro had said in an earlier interview.

[RonnieR]

Team Philippines among the Top Four in 2012 World Schools Debating Championships

Team Philippines among the Top Four in 2012 World Schools Debating Championships Sharmila Parmanand (Coach - 2012 Philippine Team) Six Philippine high school students made history by reaching the World Schools Debating Championships (WSDC) semi-final in Cape Town, South Africa in January 2012.

Scotland - Champion
Wales - Runner Up
England - Semi-Finalist
Philippines - Semi-Finalist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_S..._Championships
http://www.schoolsdebate.com/

PHilippines, the only Asian country in the Semi-Finals.

[xyriellewest]

this proves how talented Filipinos are, proud Race in Asia

[xyriellewest]

DepEd bats for 9,332 new classrooms by 2013 under PPP scheme

By the end of July 2013, the Philippine public school system will have 9,332 new classrooms in the Ilocos, Central Luzon and Calabarzon regions. If the first public-private partnership project of the Department of Education unveiled at an investor conference Wednesday succeeds, that is.

Over 300 business executives — mostly of construction firms, financial institutions and corporate foundations — gathered in Makati to witness first hand the PPP for School Infrastructure Project (PSIP) presented by government officials led by Education Secretary Armin Luistro.

Luistro said it took government some time to develop the PPP for the education sector because they were being “cautious.”
The DepEd undertook preparatory work, including a detailed inventory of school buildings and a survey of sites where classroom shortage is acute.

Luistro said the classroom shortage stands at 66,800.

Education Undersecretary Francisco Varela said at least 15 entities are interested in the PSIP.

"It is the first time we are doing this. And we hope it will succeed as shown by the expression of interest of many investors," Varela noted. Deadlines

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[HER]

Bumili ng P&G Products para makatulong sa kinabukasan ng mga Estudyante



Early netizens. Learning will be more engaging and more fun for students of Manuel L. Quezon Elementary School in Tondo, Manila with the donation of laptops by Procter & Gamble (P&G) which marks its 76th year. PHOTO BY JONAS SULIT