The Quezon City government is gearing up for next week’s class opening with the construction of more school buildings to improve the student-to-classroom ratio in its public educational system.
The resumption of classes this January will not be the usual return from the holidays for children here, when schools and Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) centers re-open after the Christmas break. Thousands of children will continue to be displaced with up to 95% of school buildings, classrooms and day care centers damaged or destroyed in the four most affected provinces following Typhoon Pablo in Mindanao, Philippines.
With less than P300 million left in its contingency funds, the Department of Education (DepEd) may tap the national government’s calamity funds to make emergency repairs on hundreds of flood-affected public schools.
THE Aboitiz Foundation, in partnership with the Aklat, Gabay, Aruga tungo sa Pag-angat at Pag-asa (AGAPP) Foundation, turned over 21 kindergarten school buildings to the Department of Education (DepEd) last June 13 at the Marco Polo Hotel in Davao City.
Hundreds of volunteers led by the Aboitiz Group team members trooped to the Banilad Elementary and Night High School on May 26 to paint school buildings and do other maintenance works as part of Brigada Eskwela 2012.
The University of the Philippines Diliman, Institute of Civil Engineering in partnership with Nanyang Technological University (NTU) of Singapore will train a total of 60 faculty members, postgraduate students, government officials, and engineers as “master trainers” on seismic strengthening of school buildings.
Old vehicles for sale TO cut down on maintenance costs, Councilor Jose Daluz III proposed the public auction of government vehicles aged eight years old. Daluz said the General Services Office agreed that maintenance costs for some government vehicles were high owing to their deteriorating condition. A Commission on Audit (COA) circular said a motor [...]
For 73-year-old Japanese businessman Katsutoshi Shimizu, weekly visits to—and relentless offers of merienda (snacks) at—Batangas schools meant higher sugar levels. “I’d tell [the teachers] I just had my snack or still full, but they still encouraged me to eat or even taste the food, since this is to show Filipino hospitality. So I ate and [...]
BACOLOD CITY, Negros Occidental, Philippines—Ma. Elena “Len” Lopez, the Negrense stockbroker formerly linked to President Aquino, donated a pre-school classroom in Bago City through a foundation led by the President’s sister Pinky Aquino Abellada on Wednesday. “She’s a friend. I’m very grateful to her because when she heard about the project she donated her personal [...]
