Not enough teachers, classrooms for K-12

Carmel Loise Matus 06/12/2016

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…

Textbook-ready for grade 11?

Jobers R. Bersales 06/01/2016

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 clean up schools

Julit C. Jainar, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 05/30/2016

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…

Aboitiz donates 246 kinder classrooms in 6 years

05/17/2016

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…

Expedient solution

Editorial 10/16/2015

“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…

‘No more land to build on’

Juli Ann M. Sibi 10/15/2015

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…

School cleanup starts; classroom lack cited

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Nestle Semilla, Norman V. Mendoza 05/19/2015

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…

Cebu lacks hundreds of teachers, rooms

Victor Anthony V. Silva 05/13/2015

Schools in Cebu province lack hundreds of teachers and classrooms for the senior high school under the K to 12 program of the Department of Education (DepEd). But despite this deficiency, Dr. Arden Monisit, DepEd Cebu provincial…

City school board to build additional rooms for K+12

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 04/08/2015

Cebu City’s Local School Board (LSB) is considering the construction of more classrooms for the city’s public elementary and high schools in line with the implementation of the K-to-12 curriculum. In a press briefing at City Hall…

Engineers to check ‘substandard’ rooms

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/15/2014

The Department of Education (Deped) prohibits students and teachers from using newly constructed school buildings that are yet to be turned over by the contractor. DepEd Provincial Schools Superintendent Arden Monisit issued the warning after Task Force…

MCIA taxes used to build classrooms in Lapu-Lapu

Norman V. Mendoza 11/03/2014

The Lapu-Lapu City government is putting to good use the taxes it collected from the Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA). By next school year, more than 100 classrooms will be built for the city’s public schools. These…

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