DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/29 January) — The Department of Education (DepEd) is eyeing the Penaplata Elementary School to be the Special Education (SpEd) center to serve children with special needs in the Island Garden City of Samal (Igacos). Dr. Minerva Pabros,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 January) A village leader here has appealed for help to ship to this city some 50 computers donated by a Rotary chapter in Australia, for distribution to three public schools here. Nancy Cortes, a councilor of Barangay
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/30 November) – In a bid to increase participation rate and reduce the number of dropouts among students in Region 12 or Southwestern Mindanao, public and private schools in the region will launch anew an early registration
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 September) – The public will have a chance to go on a “field trip to the stars” with the opening today of a traveling planetarium, an inflated dome that can accommodate 80 people and simulates the position
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/16 Sept) – Twenty-two 22 out-of-school youths from the municipality of Tantangan in South Cotabato have received training grants for various livelihood skills courses though a scholarship program supported by the United States Agency for International Development
MUSUAN, Maramag, Bukidnon – After the election of the Central Mindanao University president was postponed for the second time, members of the state-owned school’s board of regents yesterday expressed worries the process might have been tainted with politics. In the
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/31 August) – Some 470 “working children” in Sultan Kudarat province received various educational packages from the United Nations International Children’s Educational Fund (UNICEF) and the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) as part of the continuing
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/17 August) – Cotabato 2nd District Rep. Nancy Catamco is set to propose the integration in elementary and high school curricula the study of cultures and traditions of the indigenous peoples. Catamco, who belongs to the Manobo tribe
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/13 August) – – Central Mindanao University’s search committee for president on Monday presented six candidates for the university’s top post in a forum at the CMU Farmers’ Training Center. The six applicants are Dr. Palasig Ampang, president
DAVAO CITY (DWG/08 August) — In line with the thrust of the National Commission on Literary Arts to help develop creative writing in the regional languages, the Davao Writers Guild is holding a literary contest, the “Fiction-Writing Contest in Bisaya”.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/30 July) – Faculty members and students of an extension campus here of a state university want their school converted into a polytechnic college. The move to make the University of Southern Mindanao Kidapawan City Campus (USM-KCC) in
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/22 July) — The lack in English language proficiency has reportedly placed many graduates of the Cotabato State Polytechnic College at a disadvantage vis-à-vis other job applicants particularly when it comes to interviews. But college president Dr. Dingan
SAN FERNANDO, Bukidnon (MindaNews/20 July) – The municipal government here plans to send at least a hundred scholars to college, mostly from the indigenous peoples as a support to the financially distraught lumad communities, Mayor Laurencia Edma said. Edma told
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/09 July) – The national government has allocated an additional P15 million for the opening of more than 2,000 new scholarship grants this year for various technical and vocational (tech-voc) courses and training programs in Region 12
MALALAG, Davao del Sur (MindaNews/1 July) — As President Benigno S. Aquino III conveyed his plans and promises to the Filipino people during his inaugural speech at Quirino Grandstand Wednesday, a tribal chieftain here urged the newly installed leader of
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/27 June) – Ten BS Architecture graduates from the University of the Philippines- Mindanao passed the recent Licensure Examination for Architecture (LEA), one of them ranking fifth among the 993 passers. The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced that
