AFTER experiencing the devastating typhoon “Yolanda,” Somosa Elementary School in Tabogon, Cebu will be getting new classrooms courtesy of Julie’s Bakeshop. This is in line with Julie’s Bakeshop’s cause to help the Filipino community. Present during the…
Makeshift tents were already set up inside the compound of Maribago Elementary and High School in Sitio Datag, Barangay Maribago, Lapu-Lapu City to accommodate students who were displaced by a fire that gutted their classrooms early on…
THE Cebu provincial government will allocate a bigger budget to build more classrooms to accommodate nearly half a million students that are enrolled this school year. “We have P40 million still in the budget for this and…
A least six classes were disrupted at the Naga Central Elementary School in Naga City in southern Cebu after a downpour early yesterday morning flooded its low-lying classrooms. Delight Mae Santos, a Grade 5 teacher, told CEBU…
By now most schools in Cebu and the rest of the country would have adjusted to the K-12 program that the outgoing Aquino administration has implemented though we don’t buy the Department of Education’s (DepEd) assessment that…
WHILE the regional Department of Education (DepEd-7) said they are ready to implement the K-12 program, there aren’t enough teachers and classrooms to implement it. DedEd Central Visayas director Dr. Juliet Jeruta said budgetary requirements and bureaucratic…
They say number 13 is unlucky. But for the University of San Carlos, it is the beginning of a long journey of knowledge production and knowledge sharing as it unveils in two weeks’ time 13 textbooks that will…
Volunteers flocked to Cebu City Central School (CCCS) and Mandaue City Comprehensive National High School (MCCNHS) to help clean and beautify the schools in preparation for the opening of classes on June 13. The week-long Brigada Eskwela…
THE Aboitiz Foundation, the corporate foundation of the Aboitiz Group, recently donated a total of 30 AGAPP (Aklat, Gabay, Aruga Tungo sa Pag-angat at Pag-asa) Silid Pangarap kindergarten classrooms to the Department of Education (DepEd), putting the…
“They paved paradise to put up a parking lot”, goes the opening lyrics of the 1970 song “Big Yellow Taxi” by Canadian singer Joni Mitchell. The words may very well echo plans by the University of the…
If the University of the Philippines-Cebu (UP-Cebu) had a choice, they won’t cut down any of the 19 trees to make room for proposed additional buildings. Based on the plan, nine trees will be cut this year…
BRIGADA ESKWELA 2015 As early as 9 a.m. yesterday, 39-year-old housewife Elisa Agad went to the Carreta Elementary School for the start of Brigada Eskwela 2015. The activity, scheduled from May 18 to 23, is a…
