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, DepED Regional SpEd coordinator and concurrent officer in charge of the DepEd-XI Bureau of Elementary, [...]

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 76-A Bucana, said the International Rotary of Tasmania, Australia has agreed to donate about 50 [...]

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 for incoming first year high school students and grade one pupils by June 2011. Dr. [...]

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/27 September) – Former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo erred in issuing Presidential Proclamation 310 which granted 670 hectares of land taken from a state university in Bukidnon as part of the ancestral domain being claimed by a Manobo-Talaandig tribe, the Supreme Court said in an en banc decision posted on Friday in its website. [...]

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 of the stars and the planets, for a week-long show in this city. “We bring [...]

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 (USAID). Nelida Pereira, Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office chief, said the training grant is [...]

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 August 9 presentation of the six candidates for the post, the search committee announced that [...]

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 implementation of the agency’s Project Angel Tree. Arlene Bisnon, DOLE-Sultan Kudarat provincial director, said they [...]

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. Photo courtesy of www.nancycatamco.comCatamco, who belongs to the Manobo tribe in the province, said the indigenous peoples are given “less” recognition in [...]

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/17 August) – Five Mindanawons are among this year’s winners of the Metrobank Foundation’s Search for Ten Outstanding Teachers. Two of the winners are public elementary school teachers and three are high school teachers, based on an announcement posted on the foundation’s website. In the elementary category, Miladith B. Polutan of Oroquieta City [...]

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 of the University of Southern Mindanao (USM); Dr. Aldegario Gonzales of Western Mindanao State University; [...]

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”. The contest is open to all residents of Mindanao. Deadline for submission is September 15, [...]

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 Barangay Sudapin here into an autonomous school has gained the support of Cotabato 2nd District [...]

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 Ali said a solution is already in sight. Ali was referring to the Job Enabling [...]

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 MindaNews Monday they are eyeing a scholarship program as a flagship program for the town’s [...]

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 or Southwestern Mindanao. Zeus Ampuyas, regional director of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority [...]

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 the country to look into the welfare of the Lumads of Mindanao, especially their youth, [...]

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 993 out of 2,004 passed the LEA held in Manila on June 11 and 13 [...]