THERE is a convenient response now being thrown at teachers and others who criticized Palace Press Officer Undersecretary Claire Castro over her controversial remarks about teachers: she said “some teachers,”…
DAVAO CITY, Philippines - ACT Teachers Party-list wasted no time on the first day of the 20th Congress as they secured agreements with the Department of Education to increase allowances…
Vice President Sara Duterte’s statement that her resignation as education secretary was made out of compassion for the teachers and the youth was confusing for the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT).
Teachers are demanded to grade objectively. Students are commanded to deliver. And while this seems to be the most efficient way to identify who “passes” and who “fails”, it disregards the human aspect of education. In fact, it is this obsession with efficiency and production that reveals how misplaced the priority of our education system is.
The government’s Conditional Cash Transfer program has not improved the enrolment rate in both elementary and secondary schools despite the increase of budget it received from 2011 to 2015.