Samsung Philippines is ramping up its efforts to support young Filipino innovators through the launch of its globally recognized educational program, "Solve for Tomorrow".
Tech giant Microsoft has recently expanded the capabilities of its Reading Progress tool to include the Filipino language, which is now available to the 27 million students and 950,000 teachers within the Department of Education’s (DepEd) nationwide system.
It may be recalled that the cost per unit of the laptops procured by the Department of Education through the Procurement Service of the Department of Budget and Management (PS-DBM) was P58,300, revealing that the purchased laptops were more than P30,000 above the discovered original price.
Sen. Jinggoy Estrada is seeking a Senate investigation into the Department of Education (DepEd)’s computer procurement program to determine if it has resorted to the practice of "splitting of contracts" to be able to grant multi-billion peso deals to only a few "favored" suppliers of the agency.
Virtual labs technology allows senior high schools students from public schools to access a broad range of advanced software applications using their own devices.