Senator Sherwin Gatchalian is calling on the government to also include teachers in the list of people prioritized for the COVID-19 vaccine. As Chairperson of the Senate committee on basic education, arts, and culture, Gatchalian pointed out that the country’s…
Kuya Berta went viral as he keeps speaking English while begging in the streets of Cebu City. He’s been doing this for the past 17 years, but it was only recently that he found help in a kindhearted vlogger who…
President Rodrigo Duterte recently approved the dry run of face-to-face classes starting in January 2021. But the plan has been met with mixed reactions from netizens. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the Department of Education (DepEd) in the Philippines has…
Students from the Philippines scored the lowest among the students from the 58 countries that participated in the global assessment called Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study 2019 (TIMSS). This is bad news for the country, especially with the…
Floods are a constant problem in many areas, including in schools like the University of Santo Tomas (UST), a private Catholic school along España Blvd. in Sampaloc, Manila. But the university has found a way to solve this problem for…
The COVID-19 crisis has truly restructured the entire world and changed almost everything, including how schools are done these days. Instead of going to a physical school, students learn from the comforts of their home while teachers do lessons over…
In order to help students “learn respect and compassion for one another”, Manila City Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso plans to revive the Good Manners and Right Conduct (GMRC) and Values Education program in schools within his jurisdiction. Recently, Moreno…
The Department of Education (DepEd) announced that it will only allow face-to-face classes with the permission from President Rodrigo Roa Duterte and the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID). Photo credit: Angie de Silva / LiCAS News Philippines…
With the Philippines using blended learning as the education system amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of students struggle to stay connected. While there are those that don’t even money to buy the necessary gadgets or have no one to…
The Philippines slips 7 spots further down in the Global English Proficiency, now ranking 27th from its 20th rank last year. This dismayed a lot of Filipinos, particularly due to the country’s dismal rank at another global index. Last year,…