EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE. Students from the municipality of Culasi receive their educational assistance from Antique's provincial government for the previous school year on July 6, 2022. Provincial Youth Development Office (PYDO) head Irish Manlapaz said Tuesday (Aug. 30, 2022) that the "PYDO on Wheels" would start accepting applications for educational assistance on September 2 in the island municipality of Caluya for the first semester of School Year 2022-2023.(Photo courtesy of Antique PYDO) SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique - Antique's provincial government will mobilize its Provincial Youth Development Office's "PYDO on Wheels" to accept applications from qualified college and graduate school students for the soon-to-be-released PHP60 million educational assistance. PYDO head Irish Manlapaz, in an interview on Tuesday, said the assistance would be for the first semester of School Year 2022-2023. The "PYDO on Wheels" is a bus with about 10 to 1
Davao City Rep.Paolo Duterte (File photo) MANILA - Davao City Representative Paolo Duterte is pushing for a measure seeking to establish at least one e-learning center in every city and municipality in the country to improve the availability and accessibility of online learning amid the ongoing coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic. In filing House Bill 453, Duterte said the continued proliferation of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic is taking a toll on the Philippine educational system, as he stressed the need to alleviate its repercussions on the quality of the educational system and the well-being of students and teachers by making alternative modes of learning more accessible. "To eradicate these hindrances in our educational system, this bill seeks to establish at least one E-Learning Center in every municipality and city in the country. It shall serve as a venue wherein people from all walks of life could have access to information and communication technol