For decades, Philippine education policy has revolved around familiar arguments: budgets, curriculum, teacher salaries, class sizes, governance and learning outcomes. These are important debates, but Angara appears to be making a different argument: The country's education crisis, in his telling, is also an execution crisis.
The Philippines’ improved performance in the 2025 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is strengthening the case for education reform built around a shared mission among government, communities and the private sector.
The Palawan Group of Companies is extending its nearly three-decade investment in education as another 160 Filipino students join its scholarship program.
CEBU CITY—Nearly 4,000 children have benefited from three daycare centers established in Cebu under the Ronald McDonald Bahay Bulilit Learning Center program of Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Philippines (RMHC).
The company said Education Secretary Sonny Angara’s initiative reflects the need for closer collaboration among government agencies, technology firms, schools and families as children spend more time learning, communicating and socializing online. Globe added that no single sector can address online risks alone and that coordinated action is essential to create a safer digital environment.
The Department of Education and the Gokongwei Brothers Foundation (GBF), together with Robinsons Land Corp., have formalized a partnership to donate 10 classrooms under the government’s Adopt-a-School Program, reinforcing efforts to address classroom shortages in public schools.
ING Hubs Philippines is taking its long-term school partnership model to more communities after three years of working with a public school in Taguig City, where sustained support—not one-time donations—helped improve learning spaces, sanitation facilities and student access to educational resources.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday said the government will turn to public-private partnerships (PPP) to help address the country’s classroom shortage, with the private sector set to build an initial more than 16,000 classrooms in Luzon.
CEBU CITY—CIE British School, the country's first Cambridge International School, is offering educational grants to Filipino students to make internationally recognized education more accessible to Filipino families.