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The Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act, officially designated as Republic Act 10931, is a Philippine law that institutionalizes free tuition and exemption from other fees in state universities and colleges (SUCs), and local universities and colleges (LUCs) in the Philippines. The law also foresees subsidies for private higher ...
The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT-Teachers) is a progressive national democratic mass organization of teachers, academics, and other education workers in the Philippines, established on June 26, 1982. It is the largest non-traditional teachers' organization in the country, and campaigns for the economic and political rights of teachers ...
After decades of surveys, consultations, and studies starting with the Monroe Survey in 1925 during the American period, the 9-year implementation process of K–12 curriculum finally began on May 20, 2008 when Senator Mar Roxas filed the Omnibus Education Reform Act of 2008 (Senate Bill 2294) to strengthen the Philippine education system ...
Educational equity, also known as equity in education, is a measure of equity in education. [1] Educational equity depends on two main factors. The first is distributive justice , which implies that factors specific to one's personal conditions should not interfere with the potential of academic success.
The Department of Education (abbreviated as DepEd; Filipino: Kagawaran ng Edukasyon) is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for ensuring access to, promoting equity in, and improving the quality of basic education. [4] It is the main agency tasked to manage and govern the Philippine system of basic education. It is ...
A 12th-grade student of a secondary school that is accredited by the Department of Education; A graduate of any secondary school that is accredited by the Department of Education, or of any secondary school abroad; or; An individual who has been declared eligible to enter college according to the Philippine Educational Placement Test (PEPT ...
There were around 7.5 million federal student loan borrowers in default, the Education Department said in 2022, when it launched its mulligan program. That grim figure led to comparisons with the ...
In the 1960s, the Coordinating Council of Private Educational Associations (COCOPEA) campaigned for a share in the Special Education Fund, which was from the surplus funds authorized by the War Damage Act of 1965. [4] The private education sector successfully convinced the Philippine government that it has an important role to play in nation ...