E-Learning

Online e-learning firm 51Talk capped its fourth year of operations in the country with a series of conferences for its home-based online English teachers.

Considered automatic beneficiaries are Grade 10 completers from public schools and those who are Education Service Contracting (ESC) grantees.

After a series of stops in Baguio, Naga, Iloilo, Bacolod, and Cebu, the 21st STI National Youth Convention (NYC) is set to arrive in Manila. From February 1 to 5, 2016, more than 25,000 STIers from Metro Manila and nearby cities will gather at the Aliw and Star Theatres, Star City Complex, Pasay City.

The donation, through the company?s Computer Skills Training Program, is part of its celebration of its 30th anniversary in the Philippines.

During her proclamation as an independent presidential candidate in September, Sen. Grace Poe stressed in her 20-point agenda the need for digitization in the country's educational system.

As of September 2015, there are about 1,400 schools in 165 divisions of the DepEd across the archipelago currently using Quipper.

Starbooks is a stand-alone information source containing thousands of digitized local and foreign science and technology (S&T) resources in various formats with no need for Internet connection.

Students from the Philippines bagged 37 medals and a trophy, including Best in Exploration, to place second overall in the 12th International Mathematics and Science Olympiad for Primary Schools (IMSO) in Pathum Thani, Thailand from Nov. 1-7.

The Philippines won the most medals and awards in the 2015 Challenge for Future Mathematicians (CFM) contest, held in Manila on Oct. 26 to 29.

Developed by experts from DOST- Science and Technology Information Institute (DOST-STII), Starbooks contains books, magazines, journals, scientific and research papers, livelihood videos, and Britannica Ultimate Encyclopedia which covers topics on S&T.