The school will also serve as an educational and training center offering technological and vocational courses that will complement other tertiary institutions in the province of Bulacan.

Owned and managed by the Bulacan provincial government, the BPC in SJDMC is conceptualized to provide access to technical courses to high school graduates and out-of-school youths from low-income families in the city and neighboring towns, to education and to prepare them for jobs abroad.

Pres Arroyo t is scheduled to lead the capsule-laying to signal the start of construction of the new BPC building. She will also view the scale model of the building.

We just hope that there are more technical school to be constructed in other provinces for this is one best solution for the high school graduate that can not pursue college study.


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Featuring Blog of biology teacher

I am so happy to find this blog. For I have been looking for teahers blog so that teachers could organize themselves and discuss both academic and schools matters. His blog URL is http://www.m-agent-a.blogspot.com/ and he talks about The Art of Teaching Science. Here are some topics he likes so he posted in his blog.
* A Watershed
* How will science be affected by the Presidential election outcome?
* Teaching Science Nonverbally: The Power of Visual Images and Sounds
* Toward a More Open Science Curriculum
* Human Side of Science: The Science Debate 2008 Conference.

Mr. E as he calls himself. We are lucky to see his picture receiving certificate from one of the conference he attended. Our mystery teacher is so active in many conference. Visit his blog and learn more scientific information.

We failed to find out if he is teaching in Public or private. However, we hope that his idealism in sharing knowledge will not fade after 20 years of service.

I am receiving the certificate of appreciation from UP NISMED Staff with a gift pack from Unilever Philippines.

Congratulation Sir

Manila (5 November) -- Ini-release na ng Department of Budget and Management (DBM) ang P11.6 bilyun para sa year-end bonus ng mga manggagawa ng gobyerno.

Ito ang ipinaabot ng DBM Secretary Rolando Andaya kay Pangulong Gloria Macapagal Arroyo bilang pagtiyak ng pagtanggap ng mga state workers ng kanilang year-end bonus at cash gift.

Ayon kay Secretary Andaya, ang pagpapalabas ng nasabing pondo ay hakbang upang makapaghatid ng tuwa at kasiyahan sa mga manggagawa ng pamahalaan at kani-kanilang pamilya laluna sa panahon ng kapaskuhan.

Ang year-end bonus at katumbas ng isang buwang sahod at P5,000 cash gift kung saan kalahati ang naibigay na bilang midyear bonus.

The recently concluded 2008 International Mathematics Competition (IMC) in Chiang Mai, Thailand ended with celebration as Pinoy students who participated the said event bring home the 39 gold medals.

There are 2 gold , 15 silvers and 22 bronze medals. Dr. Simon Chua head the delegation representing Philippines through Mathematics Trainers - Guild Philippines.

The elementary level grabbed 1 gold represented by St Jude Catholic School in Manila. The other gold was awarded to Team A composed of Geraldine Baniqued of St. Paul College Pasig, Carmela Antoinette Lao of St. Jude Catholic School, Aileen Giselle Chua of Grace Christian High School and Jillian Kristel Sy of Chiang Kai Shek College.

The following countries participated on the said event ; Australia, China, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Bulgaria, Thailand, Canada, Laos, Malaysia, The Netherlands, Nigeria, Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, India, Germany, Iran, Rwanda, South Africa, and Cyprus.

It was not mention what country got the overall winner



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Manila Public School Teachers Association (MPSTA), Teachers’ Dignity Coalition (TDC), Teachers Inc. and Federation of Teachers Cooperative (FTC) – are accusing the GSIS of “unjustly and illegally” appropriating from them some P21 billion in benefits from July 1997 to December 2007.

In a joint petition for prohibition and mandamus, the DepEd teachers asked the court to invalidate GSIS President Winston Garcia’s use of premium-based policy as the basis for granting benefits, which the teacher blamed for their problems regarding benefits.

Many retired teachers are complaining on difficulty in claiming benefits. Imagine yourself teaching for more than 30 years and yet after retirement you will be worried for having trouble with the procedure on claiming benefits. You give your best service to your pupils or students yet the GSIS give you problems in processing and trouble that you might not received what you deserved.

Present teachers even on the 10 years in service are now worried with the GSIS on the way they manage the Filipino teachers insurance.

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If proven in the test being conducted by BFAD. The biscuit will be officially banned.

On the otherhand, DepEd Officials in regional and provincial offices are encourage to patrol school canteens to enforce a ban on a biscuit product that tested positive for melamine in Hong Kong.

Sam Nielsen of Radio dzBB's reported that the Department of Education (DepEd) will formalize an order banning the certain sandwich biscuits from school canteens.

The move is late but still helpful to avoid future problem in children health.

The Health department had earlier banned the sale waiting for final test from BFAD.

Ref#http://www.gmanews.tv/story/129791/DepEd-closely-monitoring-school-canteens-vs-tainted-biscuit
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The salary of Cebu Province sponsored the bill. The bill is about the transfer of payroll of Filipino Teachers from Manila or Deped Central Office to each Regional Offices of the Department of Education.

This bill will improve the speed of salary distribution and reduce the opportunity of automatic deduction by Manila based insurance company that regularly targeted teachers.

The current set up also forced the teachers to visit Manila if their have salary problems like unknown deduction, too much deduction, nondeductible monthly loan (which will lead to higher interest due to penalty) and including unpaid salary adjustment.

However, Congressman Gullas were unable to recommend to the bill about the transfer or move the process of salary distribution through ATM. Many public servants are now receiving salary through ATM however, public teachers are still not enjoying this advantage.

Hoping that this technology be applied to all public teachers in the future.

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