201 school days await students as classes to start June 2

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MANILA, Philippines – Students, mark your calendars.

The Department of Education (DepEd) has set June 2, Monday, as the official start of the next school year, it said in an order posted on the Philippine Information Agency’s Facebook page.

The school year will be composed of 201 school days, inclusive of the five-day in-service training break and the parent-teacher conferences, DepEd said.

Meanwhile, the last school day is set on March 27, 2015, DepEd said.

The agency said schools may set a different date for the start and end of the academic calendar as long as it is not earlier than the first Monday of June and not later than the last day of August.

Schools may also observe national and local celebrations and holidays so long as the total number of school days be maintained. Otherwise, make-up classes should be done, DepEd said.

The department had announced that it would retain a June-March academic calendar for pre-school, grade school and high school levels despite moves from the country’s top universities to move its calendar to August-June.

The shift was made to match the schools’ academic calendars of its southeast Asian counterparts ahead of the Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) economic integration in 2015.

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