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Matthew Hooton: Time to settle the Covid account in 2021 30 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM 8 minutes to read Aigagalefili Fepuleai Tapuai, head girl of Aorere College in 2020, is Matthew Hootons pick for New Zealander of the year. Photo / Supplied NZ Herald Enjoying your holiday? Did you choose Northland or the Southern Lakes? Maybe Coromandel, Wairarapa or Abel Tasman? Sadly, Whistler or Hakuba are out. New Zealand has achieved what, back in March, I called the idyllic scenario. As the p...

Published December 26, 2020, 2:15 PM Sen. Sherwin T. Gatchalian expressed dismay Saturday over the lack of instructional clarity in Philippine education. While the global assessment Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2019 revealed that the Philippines lags behind 57 other countries in mathematics and science achievements, the study also reported that less than 50 percent of Grade 4 learners only were receiving instructions with “high clarity,” Gatchalian noted. Se...

SunStar Contributed photo December 26, 2020 THE Philippine Association of Japanese Government Scholars (Philajames)-Mindanao Chapter, an organization of scholars who successfully finished their program in different fields in prestigious universities all over Japan, partnered with the Department of Education (Deped)-Davao in providing mathematics learning materials to public school students. With its commitment to serve as a bridge to strengthen the good relationship between Japan a...

Gatchalian wants teachers prioritized in COVID-19 vaccination roll-out Senator Win Gatchalian is urging the National Task Force Against COVID-19 to include public school teachers in the prioritized groups for the roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccine, together with non-teaching staff and school administrators. According to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Basic Education, Arts and Culture, giving teachers the COVID-19 vaccine is a crucial step in ensuring the safety of school premises and in ...

ILOILO CITY (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN): A committee of the 145-member League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP) will meet next week to tackle plans for direct procurement of Covid-19 vaccines by local authorities around the country, a former leader of the group said on Wednesday (Dec 23). Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Treñas, who had served as LCP president and chair, said the LCP president, Bacolod City Mayor Evelio Leonardia, would call the meeting of the committee composed of city mayors to ...

Senator Sherwin Gatchalian (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Gatchalian, chair of the Senate Committee on Basic Education, Arts and Culture, said prioritizing teachers in the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines is a crucial step to ensure the safety of school premises and in building confidence for the gradual resumption of face-to-face classes.   “Dahil ang mga guro, mga punong-guro, at kawani ng mga paaralan ay nagsisilbing mga frontliners sa pagpapatuloy ng edukasyon, nararapat lamang na mabilang si...

Education policy has blind spots By Wang Yen-huang 王延煌 The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement has released the results of the quadrennial Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). There was not much change in the results for Taiwan, as students scored high in learning achievement, but low in learning attitude toward mathematics and science, and their sense of alienation toward mathematics and science was higher than the average. ...

Because TIMSS says so December 21, 2020 The writer is an independent education researcher and consultant. She has a PhD in Education from Michigan State University. In 2019, somewhere in Pakistan a group of fourth graders was shown a picture depicting a scene in a desert. It had a camel walking through the sand, a reptile perched on a rock, a spider on a cactus and a bug on a plant, with the sun and some clouds in the sky above a mountain range rising in the background. Students were asked to...

ONCE every four years, selected Form Two students sit for the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). Just last week, the 2019 results of the international benchmarking assessment were released and Malaysia’s average overall scale scores in the subjects have decreased. On the bright side, the Education Ministry said some students had scored more than 700 points in Mathematics and Science for the first time since Malaysia began taking part in 1999. In a statement on Dec ...

Lifes not a competition to be won, its a journey of highs and lows We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Opinion By Malcolm Elliott Normal text size Advertisement As parents head to sporting fields around the country to watch their children participating in sport, perhaps AFL, rugby league or athletics, they may notice that despite goals or tries being scored, no one is keeping score. Perhaps it is a 100-metre dash with no winner announced, with r...