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CONTRARY to some opinions, there is no disconnection between the academe and the industry, as far as the integration of new technologies in learning is concerned. “I think the difference is, there is more openness to collaborate over the past five years for [CHED], at least in my time,” explained…

Education divisions in the provinces tell state auditors that disorganized and unreconciled records of the GSIS, PhilHealth, and Pag-IBIG have prevented them from remitting the deductions

Mining and quarry companies, perceived as among the biggest contributors to deforestation, are also doing their part in forest restoration. Through the Mining Forest Program, which was launched in 1989, mining companies are obliged to implement reforestation projects within their mining tenements. Some mining companies, it was learned, even go…

THIRTEEN higher education institutions (HEIs) in the Philippines are leveling up their strategic communication efforts in a training program jointly implemented by the College of Development Communication of the University of the Philippines Los Baños and the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (Searca).

LEGAZPI CITY: The Social Security System (SSS) has brought its services to the outskirts of Masbate through its eWheels program to facilitate the claims and transactions of the farmers.

The Senate and the House ratified the proposed P5.768-trillion General Appropriations Act (GAA) for next year on Monday. This was after the bicameral conference committee approved the reconciled provisions of the GAA on Monday morning. Lawmakers wrapped up the reconciled versions of the 2024 budget last December 11 in Makati…

SANTEE, Calif. — The Friday night trip began at the end of a week’s vacation, a family outing to a women’s college soccer game just days before Mahala Saylor, 13, would begin life as a high school freshman. The trip ended in August with a 911 call and the fiery wreck of a loaner Lexus […]

THE Purified Cobra Antivenin (PCAV), the only effective antidote known for cobra snake venom and used for cobra bite treatment, continues to be unavailable in Central Visayas, according to a local health officer.

SORSOGON CITY: Energy Development Corp. (EDC), a leading renewable energy producer in the country, in partnership with Australian-based nonprofit organization LiteHaus International, handed 330 laptops to 22 elementary schools in Albay and Sorsogon City to address the digital inequity in public schools in Bicol.

More than 600,000 hectares of irrigated lands were converted in the past decade, according to the latest data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). Figures from the PSA showed a total of 620,399.48 hectares were converted from 2012 to 2022, or average of 62,040 hectares annually. In the past three…