Newsroom Category: Education

Develop future cybersecurity experts

While the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) eyes short-course training programs for cybersecurity experts and software engineers, Senator Win Gatchalian maintains that developing talent for cybersecurity should start from basic education.   Considering the Philippines’ vulnerability to cybercrimes, Gatchalian pressed the importance of filling the country’s shortage of cybersecurity experts. According to DICT […]

Effective sexuality education needed to sustain drop in teenage pregnancies

Senator Win Gatchalian is pressing the need to strengthen sexuality education to sustain the gains of the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012 or RH law, including the drop in teenage pregnancies.   In a forum organized by the Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), […]

Funding support assured for National Academy of Sports

The National Academy of Sports (NAS) will receive adequate funding support under the recently approved P5.268 trillion 2023 budget to ensure that its operations are not hampered, Senator Win Gatchalian said.   The national budget for next year carried Gatchalian’s proposals to increase funds for NAS, especially for its Sports-Integrated Secondary Education Program. Gatchalian proposed […]

Institutionalized Arabic Language and Islamic Values Education

Amid the global celebration of the World Arabic Language Day today, December 18, Senator Win Gatchalian is pushing for the institutionalization of the Arabic Language and Islamic Values Education (ALIVE) in all public and private basic education schools outside the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).   Earlier this year, Gatchalian filed Senate Bill […]

Gov’t assistance, subsidies to private schools to cover BARMM

Private schools in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) will be included in the Government Assistance and Subsidies to Students and Teachers in Private Education (GASTPE), Senator Win Gatchalian assured.   The ratified bicameral conference committee report on the 2023 national budget carried a special provision proposed by Gatchalian, which provides that the […]

2023 national budget to support ALS learners

Learners enrolled under the Alternative Learning System (ALS) will receive support under the 2023 national budget, Senator Win Gatchalian assures.   The bicameral conference committee report on the 2023 national budget, which Congress ratified on December 5, carried Gatchalian’s proposal to allocate P562 million of the Department of Education’s (DepEd) budget for the implementation of […]

Funding support for learners with disabilities under 2023 budget

Learners with disabilities will receive funding support under the 2023 national budget, Senator Win Gatchalian assures.   Gatchalian cited his proposals that were carried in the bicameral conference committee report on the 2023 national budget. One of his proposals is to add P64 million to the Department of Education’s (DepEd) P96 million-budget for the conversion […]

Restore ROTC in college

Senator Win Gatchalian has filed a bill that seeks to reinstitutionalize the two-year mandatory Basic Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) Program and the two-year voluntary Advance ROTC Program at the tertiary level.   Senate Bill No. 1551 or the Mandatory Basic Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) Act covers all students enrolled in any undergraduate degree, […]