Rappler

After over 2-year hiatus, PH public schools return to full face-to-face classes

MANILA, Philippines – After more than two years of forced campus shutdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic, public elementary and high schools returned to the traditional five days of face-to-face ...
Rappler

Issues with distance learning, academic freedom persist in 2021

In 2021, the Philippines became the last country in the world to open its classrooms to children again. For most of the year, the Department of Education (DepEd) continued its remote learning system ...
UNESCO

Distance and digital learning during COVID-19 crisis: UNESCO Literacy Prizes laureates ...

On 3 June 2021, UNESCO organized an online consultation with UNESCO International Literacy Prizes’ laureates from previous years to inform this year’s theme of International Literacy Day (ILD): “The ...