Education

If a student becomes aggressive in class, whether it is shouting, spewing vulgarities – or threatening a teacher like in the St Andrew’s incident – teachers say they use various strategies to try to calm the situation. “Once you get into such power struggles, it is usually more difficult for both parties to back down,” said Alan, a teacher who …

Darryl Yap has dropped hints that he is putting the finishing touches on a new movie that will be called Martyr or Murderer and would be about the late senator Ninoy Aquino. The Filipino director stated that the film will cover the life and death of a prominent political person from the opposition during the old Marcos era. This figure …

In December of 2017, Zhang Meng suffered a mental collapse. The recurrent COVID-19 lockdowns of the student’s university campus in Beijing drove her to the point of complete hopelessness, and she found herself sobbing on the stairs of her dorm room. Due to the lockdowns, she had to spend most of her time inside her room and was unable to …

According to a study that was published on Monday, zombie ice that originates from the huge ice sheet that covers Greenland would eventually contribute at least 27 centimeters to the overall rise in sea level (Aug 29). Doomed ice, also known as zombie ice, is ice that is still linked to thicker regions of ice, but it is no longer …

The Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte hailed the first day of traditional classroom instruction, which took place on Monday, August 22, as a “success,” despite the severe lack of available classroom space. The Vice President stressed that the COVID-19 pandemic “should not be a reason to keep pupils from schools” when speaking at the National School Opening Day …

According to an interview with Rappler conducted by an assistant professor at the University of the Philippines, the nuns who sheltered former President Corazon Aquino in 1986, while she was running for president at the time, did so to demonstrate “unity” against the dictatorship. Karlo Mongaya made this statement during Rappler’s Voices from the Region program on Saturday, August 20. …

On Friday, August 19, Mexican authorities made the first high-level arrest in the infamous disappearance of 43 students in 2014. They accused a former top prosecutor of crimes in one of Mexico’s worst human rights abuses, which current officials have referred to as a state crime. The disappearance of these students occurred in 2014. Former Attorney General Jesus Murillo was …

In November 2020, Alef Education and the Ministry of Religion inked an agreement giving up to 500,000 students in seventh grade access to the platform beginning in July 2021. After hearing how useful the website has been from Indonesian madrasah educators and their students, the curriculum for grades 7-12 will be expanded to include Arabic classes. 1.5 million students will …

The Commission on Audit (COA) has called attention to the fact that the Department of Education (DepEd) purchased “expensive” and “outdated” computers for teachers to the tune of P2.4 billion. As a result, the DepEd is currently under investigation. The Department of Education purchased about 39,600 laptops, each with an Intel Celeron CPU, which costs P58,300. These processors are among …

MANILA: Colleges and universities will be able to choose between online and face-to-face sessions, according to the Commission for Higher Education (CHED) on Wednesday, July 13. Flexible learning can be used for some degree programs, while face-to-face instruction is required for others, CHED chairperson Prospero de Vera III remarked, “We are leaving it up to the universities to decide what …