Ten years ago, it was reported that 90 percent of Pisay qualifiers were from private schools. Until recently, the percentage went down to 60 percent for qualifiers from privileged families. Among this year's crop of freshmen is Robert John P. Pecayo, Grade 7, and a resident of an urban poor community along Agham Road.
The Networked Society Award was given to PLM in recognition of their Smart Reserve project, which was also named as a finalist in the Smart SWEEP Awards.
Based on the 2014 survey of the Philippine Association of State Universities and Colleges (PASUC), there is an estimated shortage of 17.057 faculty in SUCs, and most SUCs have a faculty-to-student ration of 1:42 which is higher than the standard faculty-to-student ratio of 1:25.
In an attempt to boost the entrepreneurial skills of science and engineering students in the country, the government has signed an agreement with a non-profit organization to include entrepreneurship subjects in engineering courses.
S-MART is an app that allows the users to track prices of basic agricultural crops allowing producers to maximize their profit margins, and consumers to choose the best buys in the market.
In a bid to accelerate the development of S&T-focused teachers across the nation, the Department of Science and Technology ? Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI), in partnership with six universities, trained 250 science and mathematics teacher trainers to prepare them for the implementation of the K-12 curriculum.
Acknowledging the massive growth of online news reporting in recent years, the Department of Education (DepEd) is adding Online Journalism as one of the categories for the 2015 National Schools Press Conference (NSPC).
The new facility, which has three floors, sits on a 5,621-square meter property along Kumintang Ibaba in Batangas City. It features air-conditioned classrooms equipped with LCD projectors and LED lightning systems.
Speaking at a recent event organized by state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) in Makati City, former WB lead economist Marito Garcia noted that the escalating cost of tertiary education can deprive poor people from getting high-quality education, and later on, quality high-paying jobs.
Three of the six members of the national contingent in last year?s International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) ? the most prestigious mathematics competition in the world ? topped the recently held 17th Philippine Mathematical Olympiad (PMO).
