During his campaign for the presidency, Candidate Noynoy offered a 10-point agenda for education. In his State of the Nation address last Monday, President Benigno Aquino III focused on three of these points, namely, the 12-year basic education cycle, additional classrooms, and GASTPE. Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – Dr. Emerlinda Ramos-Roman is on her fifth year as president of the University of the Philippines System (UPS). The noted lady educator is the first woman to head the country’s premier century-old state university. Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – A World Bank official has urged the Department of Education to make all public elementary and high schools in the country more accessible to children with disabilities. Read the rest of this entry »

(Part 2 of a series on Reproductive Health)

In 1901, Dr. Maria Montessori gave up her medical practice to go back to school and travel to France and England, to pursue her vision of extending her initial discovery of the scientific education she discovered working with deficient children to normal children. It was the Instituto Romano dei Beni Stabili, a slum reconstruction project backed by the principal banks of Italy, that requested her to draw up a program for three- to six-year old poor but normal children who were vandalizing the premises while they were left at home by their working parents. The first Montessori preschool that was launched in Via Marsi, San Lorenzo, Rome in 1906, a century ago, ignited the revolutionary education system that discovered the “new child” and the “new teacher”. Read the rest of this entry »

WARNING SHOT: What, or who, prompted President Noynoy Aquino to fire a warning shot across the bow of media in his State of the Nation Address last Monday? Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – The latest survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed that three out of four Filipino adults expressed satisfaction over the conduct of the first nationwide automated elections last May 10. Read the rest of this entry »

The Communist Party of the Philippines yesterday rejected President Aquino’s proposed resumption of the long-stalled peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the CPP-National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) anchored on immediate ceasefire which is contrary to previous agreements. Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang stood pat on the figures cited by President Aquino in his first State of the Nation Address (SONA) and maintained that the previous administration was “fiscally irresponsible” and “immoral” by going on a spending spree during the first half of the year when no revenues were coming in. Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s urban poor assistance program was a failure, the Commission on Audit said yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »

The government has scrapped moves to revive the mothballed 620-megawatt Bataan Nuclear Power Plant but nuclear energy remains an option, Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almendras said Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »