by anyajulia | Jul 24, 2009 | Election 2010, Headlines, National News
The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) will be training the teachers who will be serving in the country’s first-ever automated elections in May 2010. The training will be from January to April next year.
At least one teacher serving in a voting precinct next year should be knowledgeable on Information Technology, even as the COMELEC is aiming to train 2 teachers on IT per precinct in case the one assigned will be unable to serve on the day of the elections due to sickness or other reasons.
From 250,000 precincts utilized during the last political exercise in 2007 nationwide, the figure will be trimmed to 80,000 for next year’s elections. The voting time for the upcoming election will be extended beyond 3:00 pm unlike in the past elections.
Teachers will be getting P1,000.00 for a day of service, based on latest pronouncements by the COMELEC Central, foreseeing an easier and faster voting process. (PIA)
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by anyajulia | Jul 24, 2009 | Headlines, Major Events
The 2009 Search for Outstanding Reading Teacher (SORT), to honor the country’s top reading teachers and their important contribution to the field of literacy, starts yesterday (July 23). This was the announcement disclosed by the Department of Education Secretary Jesli Lapus.
SORT is open to all public elementary school teachers from Grades 1 to 6. The nominee should be a full-time public elementary school teacher with at least three years of teaching experience in Reading. All public schools are encouraged to submit nominees to their DepEd division offices, whose Division SORT Committee will determine the Division winner and submit to the Regional SORT Committee.
The criteria for the contest are: demonstration teaching = 40%, interview = 20%, essay writing = 20 % and document = 20%. The winners will get their awards during the ceremony to be held on October 16, 2009.
Meanwhile, Lapus also announced that the National Read-A-Thon (NRAT) contest will also be held together with the SORT. This is conducted to determine the best individual and team readers among elementary pupils in public schools.
For this school year, the contest is in Filipino for grade 3 pupils and English for Grade 5 pupils. Schools, divisions and regions can conduct the Read-a-Thon for all grade levels in both English and Filipino.
The NRAT has three contests namely Best Team Readers, Best in Story Retelling and Best in Oral Reading Interpretation. (DepEd)
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by anyajulia | Jul 24, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
The 2009 Visayas Island Invention Festival/Contest will be held on October 2-4. This was the announcement from the Department of Science and Technology – Technology Application Institute (DOST-TAPI).
The Visayas Cluster Invention Contest features the following categories, namely: Outstanding Invention (Tuklas Award), Outstanding Utility Model, Outstanding Industrial Design, Outstanding Creative Research (Likha Award) and the Outstanding Student Creative Research (Sibol Award).
Entry forms and rules and criteria for invention contest can be downloaded from the website at http://www.dost.gov.ph.
Deadline for entries is on September 15, 2009 not later than 5:00pm, at the DOST Regional Office No. 7, Gov. M. Cuenco Avenue, Banilad, Cebu City. (PIA)
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by anyajulia | Jul 24, 2009 | Headlines, National News
The upcoming State of the Nation Address (SONA) will highlight the achievements of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s administration and the status of the government’s projects and programs at the opening of the Joint Congress on July 27.
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita cited the BEAT THE ODDS program of the government which the president will tackle.
BEAT THE ODDS is an acronym for the government’s priority project which stands for: Balance budget, Education for all, Automated elections, Transportation and digital infrastructure, Terminate hostilities with the MILF and NPA, Heal the wounds of EDSA’s I, II and III, Electricity and water for all, Opportunities for livelihood and ten million jobs, Decongestion of Metro Manila, and Develop Subic and Clark.
Ermita reiterated that this is President Arroyo’s last SONA and she wants to inform the Filipino people on the accomplishments of her administration and the status of the projects and programs that she initiated for the welfare of the citizens. (PIA)
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by anyajulia | Jul 24, 2009 | Headlines, National News
An executive order for the imposition of maximum drug price ceilings on several essential drugs may be signed by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo before she leaves for the United States late this month. This was the statement disclosed by Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita.
The EO will take effect on August 15.
The report from the Department of Health will be the basis of the draft executive order that they will submit to President Arroyo “to implement the intent and spirit of the Cheap Medicines Act, “ Ermita adds.
In a letter submitted to the Office of the President, the health department disclosed that they have finalized the review and validation of the Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association of the Philippines (PHAP) letter of undertaking where prices of 16 drugs were voluntarily reduced by 50 percent while five other were non-compliant.
President Arroyo last year signed into law RA 9502, or the Universally Accessible, Cheaper and Quality Medicines Act of 2008. Under the law, any individual or organization listed with the Bureau of Food and Drugs may import medicines and sell them at affordable prices to the public. (OPS/PIA)
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