Manila (AsiaNews/Agencies) – The new school year began yesterday in the Philippines, marked by yet another educational reform ...

“Fixing the Foundations,” shedding light on the urgent need for systemic reforms in Philippine education. The findings are sobering: the education system is grappling with challenges that ...

K-12 Implementation Three years since the Enhanced Basic Education Act (EBEA, known as the K-12 law) was signed, the Philippines has finally embarked on its most ground-breaking change to the ...

Education Secretary Sonny Angara acknowledged Monday the Philippines is facing a literacy crisis but assured the public that ...

The League of Cities of the Philippines has also expressed its full and unwavering support for the flagship education reform of the Aquino administration, led by Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista.

The project supports the government’s Basic Education Sector Reform Agenda (BESRA) designed to help improve the quality and equity of basic education in the Philippines. Key policy and systems reforms ...

MANILA, Philippines — With the country ... as well as DepEd’s initiative to introduce reforms to improve the quality of basic education through Sulong Edukalidad, the group said there ...

Recent education reforms, such as the K to 12 program and the Universal ... found that participation and achievement rates in basic education in the Philippines had fallen dramatically due to chronic ...

The Philippines has started to make headway in education thanks to policies that aim to expand access and improve quality. The need for human capital development has been the main impetus behind such ...

These reforms include rationalizing higher education through ... research institutions and earlier levels of education. For the Philippines to grow faster and achieve continued technological deepening ...

Hosted every two years, this year’s PhilEd carries the theme “Inspiring Reforms that Transform Philippine Education,” with the aim to serve as an avenue for participants to tackle education ...

A senior education official in the Philippines who recently resigned his post says he stepped down because lawmakers had stymied his efforts to reform the country’s higher-education system.