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Labor malpractices, campus repression at Valenzuela city school criticized
Screenshots have been circulating around social media concerning instances when teachers were threatened to lose their jobs due to their Facebook posts expressing views that are critical of the government.
Filipino parents, teachers face challenges over proposed blended learning
“The government has shifted the responsibility to parents without due consultation. Our government agencies are used to coming up with programs that are not grounded.”
Student’s death intensifies call for mass promotion
“May this serve as a wake-up call to the Commission on Higher Education and the national government.”
Public school teachers raise 5 demands before school opens
“DepEd Sec. Leonor Briones’ pep talk on fighting fears and teaching our students courage does not assuage our apprehensions as they are based on our rational assessment of the country’s present condition."
Meet Yani, UP’s #COVIPH chatbot
Yani can provide information regarding the nearest hospitals, data on COVID-19 cases, and even government's policies in relation to health, education, transportation and economic support.
5 questions on e-learning and fighting the pandemic
Based on empirical data, e-learning is not for everyone given the unequal economic status of students. Internet access is not for everybody. Even if mobile telephony is ubiquitous, the low purchasing power of families makes it expensive to maintain good data connection in the students' mobile phones.
Students stage walkout against tuition hikes, mandatory military training
“Education under the Duterte administration has become more inaccessible to the youth.”
Nemenzo as UP Diliman chancellor ‘a defense of academic freedom’
“Today’s victory is the victory of us all. I know you are here not to fight for me but to fight for UP. You are here for academic freedom, democratic governance, and for the voice of the community to be heard in important decisions of the BOR.”
Lawmaker pushes for teachers protection, not trial by publicity
"With the work conditions and the additional work that teachers have to accomplish everyday, clear guidelines on effective methods of classroom management would be a great help for teachers to not get charged of violating RA 7610."
‘Tanggol Kasaysayan’ relaunched to combat historical revisionism, disinformation
“The spread of "fake facts" aims to distort history and present it as truth.”
Youth, teachers, child rights advocates unite against mandatory military training
“General Bato Dela Rosa should stop his illusion that many Filipinos would like to take ROTC.”
Academe: Our duty is to educate, not to control students
“What we have here in UP are critical minds much sharper or deadly than guns, and it seemed that that was the AFP [Armed Forces of the Philippines] and PNP [Philippine National Police] were afraid of.”
PUP students drive policemen away from campus
“The united students of PUP will always be against any form of attacks and oppression and we will never falter against Duterte administration's move to criminalize us--the students and the whole university.”
Injustices breed activism, teachers tell Bato and Albayalde
“The two officials are not in the position to lecture us on our jobs. Their stances show that they have very little appreciation of the objectives of education."
First Person | ‘Hamon para sa mga dalubhasa sa komunikasyon’
Bago pa lamang ako pumasok sa graduate school ay lagi kong tinatanong ang aking sarili kung bakit ko ninais na mag-aral pang muli. Nakuha ko ang aking sagot makalipas ang tatlong taon --- na ang pagiging isang dalubhasa sa komunikasyon ay hindi lamang dekorasyong idinudugtong sa iyong pangalan kundi ito ay isang pang-habang buhay na misyon.
Back to school? Bleak conditions likely to remain under 2019 budget
“The age-old problem of classroom and facilities shortage refuses to be obscured.”
Teachers reporting more toilets converted to faculty rooms
"Sec. Briones’ tirade against teachers proves that DepEd does not intend to give teachers any dignity. First, they neglect us in schools by not providing us a proper office, then they oppose our just call for better pay."
Youth groups storm CHED to protest policies aggravating problems in education
Youth groups’ protest action faced police violence after trooping to the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) last May 30 to decry the “worsening state of education” in the country. Three members of the group present in the activity were grabbed by officers after defacing the gates of the commission but were released after the program.
Studying Filipino language, not mandatory military training, instills nationalism
“This is a choice between our collective survival as a nation, and our collective death as a free country.”
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