Industry-led advocacy group Philippine Business for Education (PBEd) has thrown its support behind the JobsNext bill, which aims to promote lifelong learning to enable the workforce to take on jobs of the future. The JobsNext bill, filed by Quezon City Rep. Patrick Michael Vargas, seeks Based on International Labour Organization (2020) estimates, approximately 7.2 million…
International exposure, real-world industry experience, and digital expertise. These are the three key differentiators that the Mapúa University promises to equip its graduates with to ensure that their skills are future-ready, especially in a world that is constantly adapting to new ways of working, fast-paced technological developments and massively disruptive events—thanks to a new partnership…
At present, the Philippines has around 26 million students. But the number of stakeholders—the people also involved in these students’ education—goes far beyond that. Family life and child development specialist Teacher Tina Zamora pegs the number of education stakeholders to a whopping 90 million, out of the country’s population of 115 million. Zamora said in…
Early learning “schools” are now portable in parts of northern and central Luzon. PLDT and its wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc., with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), have “put” schools in a bag. Through RTI International, an independent, non-profit research institute dedicated to improving the human condition, PLDT and Smart, and their…