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Globe further enhances its support to the Department of Education (DepEd) by helping public school educators keep up with the demands of the new normal through free professional development training designed to provide teachers with essential knowledge and skills on digital literacy, blended learning, and 21st-century learning methods. The program is part of Globe’s Global Filipino Teachers (GFT) initiative and is being implemented through a combination of webinars and downloadable self-paced materials for teachers to apply their learnings. GFT was launched in 2009 to deliver information and technology-based training to public school teachers across the country. With the nation’s shift to remote learning, Globe found it essential to partner with Habi Education Labs and Teach for the Philippines, as both are well known for their exceptional work in forwarding 21st-century learning in public schools nationwide.   Habi Education Lab is a non-profit organization known for deve...

Photo of books at the Crisis Intervention Unit Library (Credit: Jam Jam Baronda Facebook ) Iloilo City Public Library located in the Iloilo City Hall has inaugurated its Crisis Intervention Unit Library today, November 29, 2020. Present during the ceremony is Congresswoman Julienne "Jam-Jam" Baronda. This library was launched last February "to support the needs of the children and to inspire them by the excitement of finding knowledge and by works of their imagination through reading." This project is from the initiative of City Mayor Jerry P. Treñas through Iloilo City Public Library continuing project, "A Library for JUAN: Bring JUAN to the Library, Bring the Library to JUAN." The library thanks the Iloilo City Government, Councilor Love Baronda, SK Federation, UAPGA Iloilo Chapter, UAP Iloilo Bahandi Chapter, Iloilo City Leadership Academy, National Movement of Young Legislators, JCI Iloilo Ilang-ilang, Global Shapers Community Iloilo, and Ilonggo You...

14 universities in the Philippines were included in a prestigious list of the best higher education institutions in Asia. This is based on the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Asia University Rankings 2021. The QS is a global education think-tank and compiles rankings of universities all over the world. The list ranks the top 650 schools in Asia. According to topuniversities.com, "This year’s ranking of the top Asian universities features 650 institutions, making it the biggest Asia ranking we’ve ever published. Mainland China leads the way with over 120 universities included this year, with India, Japan and South Korea the next most-represented study destinations. Those four destinations combined account for more than 65 percent of all ranked institutions this year. This year’s ranking has been constructed using 11 indicators." The indicators include academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty/student ratio, international research network, citations per paper and papers per...

PRC recently released the schedule for the 2021 Librarian Licensure Examination or LLE. The 2021 schedules for all professional licensure examinations were also released. The LLE schedule will be on September 8-9, 2021 (Wednesday and Thursday) with testing centers in NCR, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Legaspi, Lucena, Rosales, Tacloban, and Tuguegarao. The opening of online application will be on June 8, 2021, and the deadline for filing applications will be on August 9, 2021. According to the PRC website, "The Professional Regulation Commission informs the public that the schedule of licensure examinations for 2021 including the opening of online processing, deadlines for filing of applications, practical examinations, target dates of release of examination results and Special Professional Licensure Examinations (SPLE) are provided in this link: https://www.prc.gov.ph/schedule-examinations . For further queries and concerns, please email Licensure Division at l...

The new Globe SHARE&SURF249 promo allows #DataForSharing with not just one, but up to four people and devices. This first-in-the-market innovation comes with a sizable 20GB data allocation that can be used on all sites and apps, and which you can share to any Globe Prepaid, Postpaid, Home Prepaid WiFi, MyFi and TM powered devices.  The promo lets you generously share your data while keeping control of who has access and even how much each person can use. Share&Surf promo and its features below can be easily accessed on the GlobeOne App:  Easy promo registration and account management  Choose whom to share data with up to 4 users, via an add/remove member feature  Set data limits (1GB, 3GB, 10GB or not!) to put a cap on how much data you and your members can use Allows you to track your member’s data usage You can even customize your group data with a name Now Globe customers can always stay connected with the shared data and never worry about missing out....

Full text of this news is from PRC's website Manila - This year marks a significant feat for the Philippine Library and Information Science (LIS) profession as the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) and the Professional Regulatory Board for Librarians (PRBFL), in partnership with the Philippine Librarians Association, Inc. (PLAI), hosted the first-ever Southeast Asian Librarians Leadership Convergence last November 10-11, 2020, via Zoom and Facebook live. Over one hundred eighty (180) international and local practicing LIS delegates from various library associations, including education leaders, gathered in the two-day virtual event with the theme “A Prelude to the Establishment of Mutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications among ASEAN Countries”. Aimed at revisiting the LIS education and practice in the Southeast Asian region, this notable international collaboration beheld into finding out commonalities and gaps in the professional practice of librarianship that ma...

The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has installed over 6,723 wifi sites all over the country under its Free Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) for All program. This includes 138 public libraries.  These free wifi sites were installed in over 80 provinces and 1,021 cities and municipalities. The priority of this program is providing free wifi to the education sector. At present, they have established wifi sites for public schools, SUCs, and TESDA branches.  They have also provided free wifi to the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Education, Training, and Doctrine Command (AFPETDC) in Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City, which provides military education to uniformed personnel.  The DICT targets to build 100,000 free wifi access sites by 2023.  The Department of Information and Communications Technology, launched in 2016, is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for the planning, development, and promotion of the count...

Globe is supporting its customers especially those affected by Typhoon Ulysses with several assistance packages from free services to relief goods, all designed to help them cope with the aftermath of the typhoon. Globe Telecom is providing free calls, texts, and data service, as well as billing suspension and reversals to its customers. The telco company is likewise sending meal packs to communities and deploying its Dyip Sagip Libreng Tawag, Libreng Charging and Libreng WiFI in areas hit by the typhoon. Globe Business and Globe myBusiness Postpaid mobile customers will be given credit extensions until Nov. 18 so they may continue enjoying mobile services regardless of the status of their accounts.  The telco company is also extending free 5GB for 3 days for Globe At Home Postpaid and Prepaid WiFi customers, including those with accounts under Globe Business and Globe myBusiness. Fixed Broadband Postpaid customers will likewise receive bill charge reversals for days with no serv...