25 ‘SMART Mentors’ to Master Creative Use of ICT in Philippine Classrooms

MANILA — Many public school teachers manage 65 to 80 students at a time. Among the challenges of handling bloated class sizes is ensuring that everyone pays attention. This is where creativity, ingenuity and technology can make a big difference.

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Philippines Science High School Accreditation Exam Set on May 2

Each year, the Philippine Science High School admits 240 students in its Diliman Campus, and about 90 students in its Southern Mindanao, Ilocos Region, Western, Central and Eastern Visayas, Bicol Region, Cagayan Valley, Central Mindanao campuses to its freshmen year.

On its second year a limited number of scholarship slots become vacant due to failure to meet the needed academic requirements and willful abandonment of scholarship grant.

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Philippines: SMART Signs MOA with DepEd to Include More Schools in ICT Program

[MANILA/APRIL 2007] Leading wireless services provider Smart Communications, Inc. (SMART) will expand the Smart Schools Program to include 50 more public high schools and 30 public elementary schools nationwide this year.

The expansion of the Smart Schools Program was formalized during the signing of an addendum to a Memorandum of Agreement between SMART, the Department of Education and the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP).

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Philippines: New Baguio Lawyer Shares Secrets in Topping Bar Exams

Topping the bar is ?doable? even for reviewees from outside Metro Manila as proven by Noel Neil Q. Malimban, the 2006 bar topnotcher, who hails from the University of the Cordilleras (UC) in Baguio. In the presence of journalists, he shared his secrets of how he topped the bar: ?good grasp (of the subjects), good English, good penmanship, and prayer.?

BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW
Northern Dispatch
Posted by Bulatlat

Topping the bar is ?doable? even for reviewees from outside Metro Manila as proven by Noel Neil Q. Malimban, the 2006 bar topnotcher, who hails from the University of the Cordilleras (UC) in Baguio.

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Philippines: BIR’s Bunag Tells Davao Grads to Dream

DAVAO CITY — In powder blue toga, the 460 boys and girls ages 16 to 17 who belong to the 58th graduating high school students of the Ateneo de Davao University were honored by the presence of Bureau of Internal Revenue Commissioner Jose Mario C. Bunag as their commencement speaker and disclosed to them the plans of his bureau for the youth.

Bunag who is also a Blue Knight being a graduate of the Ateneo de Manila University came to Davao City to share his experiences and his commitment while serving the government.

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