Former DOST secretary William Padolina said one way to improve teachers’ education is to train good elementary and high school teachers “who will be inspiring students to become scientists”.
The program is hounded by implementation woes such as the inability of some schools to receive PC packages because they lack multi-media or computer rooms.
Under the enhanced I-STUDY Lending Program, Landbank is now offering a loan of up to P50,000 per student to finance the purchase of learning gadgets that can be included in the maximum loanable amount of P150,000 per student or P300,000 per parent-borrower to cover payment for tuition or enrolment-related fees.
Existing railway personnel and maintenance staff can now access self-paced training courses through an online learning platform launched by the newly established Philippine Railways Institute (PRI) with a P307-million grant from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
First Future 2.0 aims to support young people without college degrees, but now focuses on courses that will allow them to quickly enter or progress in the workplace.
The agency said learners did not drop out from school, but merely shifted from one mode of learning to another or migrated from one geographical location to another.
The new offering is a 36-unit fully online graduate program designed to develop knowledge and skills in effective leadership of government and private R&D organizations and research funding institutions.
House Bill 8020 requires the digitization of all contents used by publishers participating in the Public School Textbook Program (PSTP) to address the recurring shortage of printed modules in public schools.
A team of student awardees from Caloocan National Science and Technology High School developed an Arduino-based anti-theft, alcohol-sensing, and collision-sensing motorcycle helmet.
Between January and June 2020, the number of DDoS attacks affecting educational resources increased by at least 350% when compared to the corresponding month in 2019.
