CEBU CITY, Philippines — The national government aims to improve the functional literacy skills of more than 5,000 pupils here who have been identified as “struggling readers.” Starting May, the Department of Social Welfare and Development in…
MANILA, Philippines – Four-term Senator Loren Legarda has filed the proposed K to 3 Foundational Learning and Nurturing Care Act, a landmark bill that seeks to address the country’s long-standing crisis in early education. The bill seeks…
MANILA, Philippines — A total of 18.96 million Filipino students who completed junior and senior high school in 2024 are unable to read and comprehend a simple story. This information was presented at the Senate education panel’s…
Non-stop negatives covering politics, economics, and education can be overwhelming to citizens who are directly affected, but more so for societal leaders. Each Filipino family or citizen copes as best he or she can, the collective problem…
The problem in Bicol is not about literacy but about reading comprehension, Education Secretary Leonor Briones said on Monday, as she sought to correct and clarify an Inquirer report saying that some 70,000 students in the region…
As the country commemorated Bonifacio Day on Thursday, somewhere in Cebu City, a modern-day “revolution” was waged. At the Cebu City Public Library (CCPL) and Information Center along Osmeña Boulevard, headquarters of a nongovernment organization (NGO)…
The latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey taken on the period September 23 to 27 shows just how exactly uncertain Filipinos are with the government’s war on drugs. Connect that with a statement from Dangerous Drugs Board…
Globe Telecom, in partnership with the University of Cebu (UC), recently held the culminating activity for the Visayas leg of Prism, a digital literacy training program designed to equip private school teachers with technological skills for effective…
Pru Life UK eyes lower to middle class sector to grow insurance market A life insurance company is aiming to increase the insurance penetration in the country and lessen the $372 billion insurance protection gap through the…
The story of how an 11-year-old boy helped the police in tracking down a thief to return a pair of earrings to a schoolteacher took centerstage in the Basadours’ storytelling at the Cebu City Public Library held…
