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Ten percent of country’s students remain in the “dark ages”, in communities unreached by electricity—effectively insulating them from distance learning dependent on gadgets that run on power. This plight of about 2.25 million Department of Education learners emerged in the course

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto today called for a “1 book to 1 student” ratio in public schools, saying that a complete set of textbooks at home is needed by children to cope with online classes. “Broadband learning does not cancel the need for books. On the contrary—

PHP11.6-billion cut made in the budget of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) for 2020 would affect hundreds of thousands of college students availing of its scholarship programs. – For 2020, CHED was allocated PHP40.784 billion, which is nearly 23 percent lower than

It’s time for DepEd to do its homework in textbook procurement and finally end the problem of “Wow Mali” textbooks and those that do not last long because they are printed on papel de lambot. Graver, however, than the problem of error-filled books is the delay in their

An Act Providing Greater Access to Post-Secondary Education by Establishing An Educational Loan Program, Amending for the Purpose Executive Order No. 81, Otherwise Known as ‘The 1986 Revised Charter Of The Development Bank Of The Philippines,” As Amended Seeks to add more