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+ March 11, 2021 IT’S about time for the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) and the Commission on Higher Education (Ched) to at last seal a partnership to boost sports development at the tertiary level via a memorandum of agreement (MOA) signed on March 10.
Most of us in the sports community are aware that PSC has already established a strong linkage with the Department of Education (DepEd) in recent years, the latter’s physical education (PE) teachers and coaches as among the first recipients of PSC’s National Sports Coaching Certification Course, which has also resumed during the pandemic.
Deped, too, has been availing of technical support from PSC for the standard measurement and requirements of competition venues leading to the Palarong Pambansa as well as sports equipment (either donated or borrowed), while the host local government unit (LGU) of the Palaro also receives financial assistance from the national sports agency.
February 27, 2021 THREE universities and colleges offering medical and allied health programs in Cebu have applied for authority to conduct limited face-to-face classes amid the coronavirus pandemic.
They are the University of Cebu-Mandaue, the Southwestern University Phinma and the Cebu Institute of Medicine.
“We have only three, so far, that submitted their applications. These are for clerkship, for hospital-based training of our medical students,” said Maximo Aljibe, Commission on Higher Education (Ched) 7 director, during the Regional Development Council’s first full council meeting for 2021.
The Palace earlier announced that private and public medical schools in areas under the modified general community quarantine status and similar universities and colleges with base hospitals that cater to Covid-19 patients could gradually reopen campuses and resume limited face-to-face classes.
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+ January 27, 2021 Following the recent launch of the Landbank Mastercard Prepaid Card (LMPC), 25,161 Tertiary Education Subsidy (TES) grantees from 135 higher education institutions in Central Visayas for the first semester of the academic year 2020-2021 will be able to “easily and safely” receive their stipend despite the pandemic, said the Commission on Higher Education (Ched).
Ched, through its attached agency, Unified Student Financial Assistance System for Tertiary Education (Unifast), in partnership with the Landbank of the Philippines, launched on Jan. 15 the LMPC for beneficiaries of the TES program.
According to Ched Chairperson J. Prospero E. De Vera III, the LMPC is intended to address the challenge of disbursing financial assistance to more than 700,000 TES and Tulong Dunong Program grantees nationwide during the pandemic.