By Rose Palacio
President Arroyo ordered government agencies to pool and intensify their efforts and seek the cooperation of the private sector to wipe out hunger in the country.
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According to Kabataan partylist, CHED granted the tuition increase even before consultations in schools for such an increase has yet to be completed. It said the hike came after a meeting between President Arroyo and COCOPEA, the organization of private schools. The CHED's "unilateral and shameless act shows the commission's subservience and capitulation to strong pressure from school owners even at the expense of students."
?We all know that smoking kills... The solution is simple: 100% smoke-free environments. What isn't so simple is overcoming tobacco industry untruths about smoke-free policies."
A Moro child in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) in one of the schools being supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The agency recently conducted a one-week training class for ustadzes (Islamic teachers) to integrate English, science, and math into the basic Islamic and Arabic teaching in madrasahs. At a ceremony to mark the training, ARMM Department of Education Undersecretary Manaros Boransing said that implementing the Revised Basic Education Curriculum is important to develop future Moro leaders who are deeply rooted in their Islamic faith while being fully attune to developments in the Philippines and the global community. (US Embassy photo)
MANILA — The confidence index (CI) for the second quarter remained strong at 46.4 percent, higher relative to comparable levels year-on-year (by 14.8 points) and quarter-on-quarter (by 1.5 points).
Business executives also remained confident about the next quarter as the index (at 44.7 percent) rose by almost 12.0 points year-on-year. Quarter-on-quarter, however, the index fell by 4.7 points.
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