The Department of Education (DepEd) issued a memorandum laying the school calendar for this year, including the opening date of school year 2011-2012 which will be on June 6.
Secretary Armin Luistro of DepEd said the total number of school days would 202, and the last day of the school year falls on March 30, 2012. [...]

A total of 489 out of 806 passed the Medical Technologist Licensure Examination given by the Board of Medical Technology in the cities of Manila, Baguio and Cebu this March 2011. The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) released the results in three (3) working days from the last day of examination.
The PRC issued the guidelines for [...]

A new business process outsourcing (BPO) firm has chosen the Philippines as the location of its latest service center. US-based Cybernet-Slash Support (CSS) recently opened its 1,000-seat facility in Taguig, its first Philippine site and currently has 400 employees. CSS said the new facility will be used for the company’s outbound sales, technology and other [...]

Students from the Philippines once again gained international recognition as they won 18 medals in the 6th International Mathematics and Science Olympiad for Primary School (IMSO), which was held in Jakarta, Indonesia last November 8 to 14. The medals won by the students include one gold and eight silvers.
The lone gold medal was won by [...]

JobsDB.com, one the premier online jobs search website came up with the “hot” jobs that Filipinos should apply for 2010. These include nursing, accounting, teaching, and even dog-handling. According to Jayjay Viray, managing director of JobsDB.com, while nurses and accountants continue to be in demand next year, other not-so-popular, but surprisingly high-paying jobs should also [...]

A Korean company invested an initial P100 million in the Philippines to set up its local subsidiary here, an online education company. Avalon English+ is one of the largest educational companies in South Korea, it recently sets up the Ubiquitous English Network of Avalon International Inc. (U-ENAI), an online education company teaching English with the [...]

Presidential Consultant on Entrepreneurship Jose Concepcion III said the only solution to fight poverty is entrepreneurship. “The greatest problem is poverty and the only equalizer is to give these kids education,” he said.
That is why the government, in partnership with the private sector, has initiated a project that would teach millions of out-of-school youth (OSY) [...]

Henry Ford worked for Edison Illuminating Co. in Detroit as a chief engineer. He wanted to be part of the company’s vision of a bright new future which motivated him to devote his spare time to build a crude machine of two bicycles placed side by side and motorized by a gasoline engine that he [...]

The start of classes on June 1 will definitely push through, and the Department of Education (DepEd) will not suspend nor move it to a later date even with the first confirmed case of Influenza A(H1N1) in the country. Education Secretary Jesli Lapus has received assurance from Health Secretary Francisco Duque III that there is [...]

Bulacan State University (BSU) which is known to be one of Bulacan province’s leading tertiary education institution, has now incurred approximately P7 million in losses due to unpaid scholarship grants. This is according to the four-page Audit Observation Memorandum dated February 9, 2009 by Bernardo Garcia, supervising auditor of Commission on Audit (COA)
The said loss [...]

High school students from the Philippine Science High School (PSHS) – Diliman are doing the country, as they win the 2009 FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) in Hawaii, a victory that earns them a ticket to compete in Atlanta, Georgia for the Robotics world championship on April 16 to 18. FIRST stands from For Inspiration and [...]

Google has just announced the opening their Google Summer of Code 2009 program and is now accepting applications from university students who wish to participate in the program. Applications will be accepting applications until April 3, 2009.
The program was first launched in 2005 and it familiarizes students with open source software developments by offering student [...]

Despite the effect of global crisis and with number of multinational companies closing down because of this, business process outsourcing (BPO) still continues to be one of main source of employment for Filipinos especially during these times. More and more international call center providers look to the Philippines as viable location for a call center [...]

Efren Peñaflorida didn’t have to do spectacular things. He didn’t jump from tall building or rescue a cat from the tree, but Efren, Filipino, received citation from international news agency CNN as a modern-day hero.
When he started his mission, Efren wasn’t thinking much of getting any recognition – much less from CNN. He just wanted [...]

Microsoft Corp., through Microsoft Philippines has entered into a partnership with the University of the Philippines (UP) in an effort to boost the local economy through the various student-faculty programs housed in one IT hub. The IT hub, which will serve as a seed bank of new ideas will be called the Microsoft Innovation Center.
The [...]

The Philippines Educational System is in constant deterioration. Budget about this sector are being allocated each year, but how come it seems to be not improving? There’s a lot of reason for this. Thanks to the Philippine Business for Education’s (PBEd) initiative in improving the quality of education in the country.
According to them, the business [...]

The 2009 Smart Wireless Engineering Education program or SWEEP is finally over. Ramon Isberto, Smart Communications Public Affairs Group head, said that this year’s competition’s theme focused on mobile applications that would be use for real-life disasters and emergency-related incidents, like earthquakes, floods, tsunamis and typhoons.

Thrasher TV offers a very innovative way of teaching people about things in businesses. Their audience in my opinion, are the teenagers who’s having a hard time understanding business terms.
One episode of Thrasher TV discussed about Stocks. The hosts first lay two technical definitions of stocks, and both contains highfalutin words that is hard to [...]

The Ateneo de Manila University is providing students the opportunity to develop into full-pledged entrepreneurs through their SoMBA program. SoMBA is the acronym for School of Management Business Accelerator Program, in this program the students are able to acquire the necessary knowledge, skills and experience in entrepreneurship by allowing them to set up their own [...]

Michael Phelps has been suspended by USA Swimming, the US’s governing body for competitive swimming, for three months. USA Swimming also withdraws the financial support for Phelps  for the said three months period.
Hours before the suspension was handed down to Phelps,  cereal and snack maker Kellogg Co. issued a statement saying that it will not [...]