The EdCom II Year Two Report entitled “Fixing the Foundations: A Matter of National Survival” persistently misreads the Philippine basic education situation. As stated in our previous column, “EdCom ...

On Jan. 26, the final report of the Second Congressional Commission on Education (EdCom II), entitled, “TURNING POINT: A Decade of Necessary Reform (2026-2035),” was released. With respect to basic ...

FOLLOWING the release of the Second Congressional Commission on Education (Edcom 2) final report, which contains the National Education and Workforce Development Plan for the next 10 years, Sen.

MANILA, Philippines — A bill creating a congressional body that would conduct a three-year review and assessment of the country's education system lapsed into law on July 23. Republic Act No. 11899 ...

EDUCATION Secretary Sonny Angara acknowledged that the report of the Second Congressional Commission on Education (Edcom2) is a “bitter pill to swallow” to improve the education system in the country.

Senator Sherwin Gatchalian is pushing to have both learners’ and teachers’ foundations strengthened in the wake of the submission of the “Edcom Two,” the second comprehensive report by a congressional ...

SEN. Juan Edgardo M. Angara asserted last Friday the need to revive the Congressional Commission on Education (EdCom) to effectively address new challenges facing the Philippines’s education sector.

MANILA, Philippines — Significant structural barriers hindering the professional growth of Filipino learners and workers are being formed by the overlapping mandates of the Commission on Higher ...

The Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) has been struggling to fulfill its original mandate of keeping the country’s higher education in tune with the changing demands of the labor market, its ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Second Congressional Commission on Education, or Edcom 2, together with Caritas Philippines and ...

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. (left) and House Speaker Faustino “Bojie” Dy hold a copy of Edcom 2 report. MANILA, Philippines — The Second Congressional Commission on Education (Edcom 2) on Thursday ...