As Jackie O said, “You can’t go wrong with basic black and pearls.” So smart mover and shaker Hasmine Huang proved that by wearing a black dress as Purefoods Hormel’s Group product manager when she launched the Value of Fun campaign of Purefoods Tender Juicy, a partnership with the Department of Education (DepEd) and Marylindbert International, dahlings.
Public school teachers and their students are learning to speak more foreign languages, especially with the inclusion this year of Chinese, as part of the Department of Education’s program to bring widely used languages into the secondary education curriculum.
Bull session. That was how it was called in the all-girl elementary school I attended in the mid-’70s. You were marked once called to a “bull session.” It was like the kiss of death. Classmates would form a circle around you, then tell you everything they didn’t like about you.
If ongoing pilot classes succeed, the Department of Education may soon be sending home kids with no homework and plenty of time for parental bonding.
The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (Pagcor) bagged four awards in the prestigious 48th Anvil Awards held Friday at the Makati Shangri-La.
Children who don’t play outdoors regularly may have a hard time socializing with peers as they get older, according to experts.
“Elmar, look where we are now,” exclaimed Celeste Legaspi onstage when she received her Philstage Natatanging Gawad Buhay! for Lifetime Achievement a few years back. Celeste singled out the Philstage executive director who, aside from overseeing the awards night at the CCP Little Theater, had also convinced a number of reviewers of national dailies and arts professors from different universities to band together to watch and judge the year-round shows of the professional performance groups comprising Philstage.
Writers and literature educators are protesting the decision of Department of Education (DepEd) functionaries to drastically downscale the literature and humanities in the new “K to 12” program, which is supposed to add two years to basic education so as to better prepare Filipinos for higher education.
To try to bring back the forgotten art of letter writing in the age of email and 140-character limitations of Twitter, the Department of Education is urging high school students to take part in World Post Day activities.
To bring back the lost art of letter-writing in this age of instant messaging and 140-character limits, the Department of Education (DepEd) has teamed up with the Philippine Postal Corp. (Philpost) to sponsor the 2nd National Letter Writing Day on Oct. 9 as part of World Post Day activities.
