U.S. launches P1.6-Billion UPSKILL program to boost PH higher education

02/24/2024

Manila, Philippines —The United States government launched the U.S.-Philippines Partnership for Skills, Innovation, and Lifelong Learning or UPSKILL Program, a five-year, P1.6-billion ($30 million) initiative that will help Philippine higher education become more globally competitive. The program…

School suicides

Ambeth R. Ocampo - @inquirerdotnet 02/03/2023

Some 404 basic education students, according to Department of Education (DepEd) figures, committed suicide in academic year 2021-2022. That figure is not small, considering that 2,147 students in the same period did not succeed in doing so.…

37 private schools in Central Visayas seek tuition hike

Futch Anthony Inso 05/27/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Thirty-seven (37) private higher education institutions (HEIs) in Central Visayas have applied for tuition fee hike of up to 10 percent, according to an official of the Commission on Higher Education (Ched). Ched…

Free tuition

Editorial 12/26/2016

There’s more to the P8.3 billion allocated by President Rodrigo Duterte to the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) to pay for free tuition of poor but deserving students in state universities and colleges next year. The amount…

Game change in higher education?

Jobers R. Bersales 12/21/2016

The recent decision of the government to ensure free tuition among state colleges and universities is a noble step. But it does not answer the core problem of public higher education in the Philippines: that there are…

Makatabang sa publiko ang Uber ug GrabCar

Lloyd Suarez, Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/13/2016

Nakasabot ko kang LTFRB-7 Director Ahmed Cuizon nga mipadayag sa iyang kahiubos ngadto sa ubang mga operator sa GrabCar ug UBER tungod kay gibirahan siya pag-ayo sa social media dihang wa na niya tugti nga maka-operate kay…

Crisis in Philippines higher education

Jobers R. Bersales 03/30/2016

The numbers speak for themselves. Among all the countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Philippines, with a population of nearly 100 million, ranks the highest in terms of number of universities and colleges,…

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