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The topnotcher of this year’s Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) for the secondary level is a mathematics wizard who wants to share his passion for math.
Read MoreThe new book “Let’s Get Ready” aims to teach children to prepare for storm, flood, fire and earthquake.
Read MoreMy grandmother, Leonor or Norie, was 15 and the youngest of the five orphaned Brual sisters of Lipa City when World War II broke out.
Read MoreSix of the 10 representatives of the National Capital Region in the Ten Outstanding Students of the Philippines (TOSP-NCR) search hope to become educators who will help train future leaders of the country.
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Filomeno “Dodong” Avanceña Bautista Jr. had hoped somebody would tell the World War II stories about what happened in Mindanao. He noted that very little had been said about the situation in the south.
Sofia G. Tidon was a 14-year-old freshman at the University of the Philippines Rural High School when World War II broke out. The school was located on the UP Los Baños (UPLB) campus.
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My school, Philippine Science High School, opened up many opportunities for me throughout my four-year stay there but a trip to Russia was certainly the biggest.
Here is the conclusion of the speech I gave at the graduation rites of St. Dominic College of Asia.
Read MoreA Canadian program aims to make disaster preparedness “a way of life” in one of the country’s most hazard-prone provinces.
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The room echoes with “oohs” and “aahs” as the balik (returning) scientist unravels “highfalutin” concepts through simple experiments using materials from a portable plastic box.
On April 12, I gave the commencement address to more than 100 St. Dominic College of Asia (SDCA) graduates at the Philippine International Convention Center. The school is owned by the Andaman family. It was great to reconnect with a former student, Jade Andaman, now a lawyer.
Read MoreWhen I started my cooking school for children 15 years ago, all I wanted was work that was home-based.
Read MoreA few months after the Japanese Imperial Army invaded the Philippines on Dec. 8, 1941, enemy troops arrived in Mindanao, disturbing the placidity of the mountains in the Zamboanga peninsula and killing even innocent civilians.
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Many of the public schoolteachers who were deputized for election duty last May 13 have not received their honoraria from the Commission on Elections (Comelec), according to a teachers’ group.
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The revised general education curriculum (GEC) for college students should be in place by 2016 because some private schools will graduate their first batch of senior high school students by then.
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Education Secretary Armin Luistro reminded public school officials that no fees should be collected from parents or guardians even on a voluntary basis when public schools reopen on June 3.
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Maritime schools that continue to defy government orders to close down substandard training programs are putting all Filipino seafarers in danger of being banned from European Union (EU) member flagged vessels.
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The Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) will formally decide on Monday, May 27, whether to approve the application of 344 private colleges and universities to increase their tuition and other fees this school year.
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The Department of Education (DepEd) is mulling over entering into more service contracting schemes with private schools to absorb more than a third of the expected one million students who will be entering senior high school in 2016.
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Araceli Mallari is now 90 years old. But she tells her stories of a time long ago so vividly and in great detail that, just by listening, you can almost feel the terror that gripped her as though you were actually there with the Filipino guerrillas hiding from Japanese troops.
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Conrado T. Sotelo, who got the second-highest score (92) among the 15,223 examinees who passed the March Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) secondary level, is a licensed nurse.
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MANILA, Philippines—Despite a glut of licensed teachers, the Department of Education (DepEd) is finding it hard to fill all 61,510 vacancies in the public schools this year due to a lack of qualified teachers in some areas. The DepEd’s P293.32-billion budget this year includes an allocation for the hiring of 61,510 new teachers to [...]
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