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(Eagle News) — Malacanang announced that the Philippine government has extended the enrollment for public schools until July 15. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said this in a virtual press briefer on Tuesday, June 30, after receiving reports from Education Secretary Leonor Briones that only over 15 million students were able to enroll in the month-long enrollment this June. Roque said that parents should avail of this extension to enroll their children whom they have […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Education is mulling extending the period of enrollment in public schools in the country to July 15. Education Secretary Leonor Briones said in a radio interview this was because of “high demand” even after the period of enrollment supposedly expired on June 30. As of June 20, the DepEd said the total number of enrollees has reached 13,253,716 nationwide for kindergarten to Grade 12, including ALS and non-graded learners […]
(Eagle News) The Department of Education has started remote enrollment via “drop box system” to help learners with no internet connection. The drop-box system of enrollment began on Tuesday, June 16, as provided for in DepEd Order No. 008, s. 2020. “These drop box/kiosks, which could be found in barangay halls or schools, will be set-up only for picking up and dropping-off the Learner Enrollment Survey Form (LESF),” the DepEd said in a statement. […]
DepEd training teachers for new way of online teaching (Eagle News) — Almost 10 million students have now enrolled in public schools to avail of the multiple learning modalities prepared by the government amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Department of Education. During the hearing at the Senate Committee on Basic Education on Thursday, June 11, Education Secretary Leonor Briones said that since the start of enrollment, the number of enrollees have reached […]
(Eagle News) — The enrollment of students in public schools from June 1 to June 30 will be done primarily remotely, the Department of Education said on Thursday, May 28. According to DepEd Undersecretary Annalyn Sevilla, students will be contacted by their previous advisers for this. “At ang atin pong ieentertain, again through remote and with strict physical distancing and minimum health standard, ay yung mga bagong dating po kagaya ng Kinder, transferees at yung […]
(Eagle News) — The enrollment in public schools will proceed as scheduled on June 1. “Tuloy po iyan dahil hindi naman po tayo pupuwede na walang preparasyon,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in an interview over Teleradyo. Roque made the statement after President Rodrigo Duterte said it was “useless” to talk about the opening of classes without a vaccine against COVID-19. Roque clarified in a press conference the day after that this meant that no […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (July 12) – We know that one of the reasons why crime is rampant in our country is the equally rampant use of illegal drugs. To save the youth from the “dark side” and therefore arrest the increase in the number of drug-induced crimes in the country, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) announced the possibility of putting in place drug tests in every university and college. Aside from proposing to require […]
