Published May 4, 2021, 3:54 PM
The Department of Education (DepEd) sought the support of the local government in Baguio City to ensure that the ongoing repair and rehabilitation of the National Educators Academy of the Philippines (NEAP) facility in Baguio City will not be further interrupted due to the health situation in the country.
The Department of Education (DepEd) is monitoring the repair and rehabilitation of the National Educators Academy of the Philippines (NEAP) facility in Baguio City. (Photo from DepEd/Manila Bulletin)
DepEd, in a statement issued Tuesday, May4 confirmed that Undersecretary Nepomuceno Malaluan met with Mayor Benjamin Magalong last month to share updates about the NEAP facility in Baguio City.
Education Secretary Leonor Briones (DepEd/FILE PHOTO/MANILA BULLETIN)
“The central and field offices need to collaborate in improving and enriching the quality of the distance learning,” Education Secretary Leonor Briones said.
Due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) situation in the country, DepEd is implementing multiple learning delivery modalities to ensure that learning will continue even if the students are insider their homes.
Under the distance learning set-up, students were asked to choose a modality: modular (printed and offline), online, television and radio-based instruction or a combination of two or more modalities under blended learning.
This school year, DepEd said that the most preferred choice of learners and their parents is printed modular. However, DepEd noted that this is not the most ideal option because printing thousands of learning materials is costly and harmful to the environment. “We need to be ready to digitalize our delivery of education in
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DepEd Undersecretary and DTFC Chairperson Alain Del Pascua issued memorandum no. 372 last April 19 said health authorities – including the Department of Health (DOH) – have “repeatedly emphasized that COVID-19 vaccination is one of the major strategies to complement the existing measures and practices to mitigate the spread and reduce morbidity and mortality due to coronavirus infection.”
Pascua added that the government’s directions pertaining to COVID-19 vaccination were laid out in the Philippine National Deployment and Vaccination Plan (NDVP) for COVID-19 vaccines and further elaborated in DOH issuances.
Related to this, Pascua explained that DepEd personnel “have three levels of participation” in the ongoing implementation of NDVP.
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The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Philippines, in a statement issued Tuesday, April 20, argued that it is registered and sole and exclusive negotiating agent (SENA)-holding unions are already recognized by law.
This, the group said, reveals the inconsistencies in DepEd’s defenses as mere “cover up” to the true motive behind the move. “Shame on DepEd for this obvious attempt to gaslight us,” ACT Secretary General Raymond Basilio said.
“They know full well the standing of our unions as we have dutifully submitted all requirements to relevant agencies, which was precisely how we gained the status of being a registered union in 11 regions and the sole and exclusive negotiating agent in the other five,” Basilio added.
Published April 20, 2021, 5:39 PM
A group on Tuesday, April 20, urged the leadership of the Department of Education (DepEd) to focus its efforts into “more relevant” activities such as conducting a survey among its teachers during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic instead of “profiling” the members of teachers’ organizations.
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The Teachers’ Dignity Coalition (TDC), a 30,000-strong group, asked this of DepEd after the it has directed a “profiling” of the group’s members – along with another teachers’ organization, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) – over the weekend.
“Instead of asking the field officials to get the details of teachers affiliated with TDC or ACT, the DepEd could make a more relevant profiling – survey the teachers infected with COVID-19 and provide them the necessary assistance,” TDC National Chairperson Benjo Basas said.