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The House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a bill seeking to institutionalize kindergarten education as requirement for every five-year old child and above who is about to enrol in Grade one in public schools.

MANILA, Philippines—The Department of Education announced on Thursday its plan to hire up to 13,000 teachers to partially fill a shortage of some 50,000 teaching staff in the coming school year.

MANILA, Philippines—The Department of Education (DepEd) has suspended six school officials in Pangasinan and is looking into the involvement of other officers in two more regions in connection with the alleged “orchestrated cheating” in the last National Achievement Test (NAT).

MANILA, Philippines -- The Department of Education is widening its probe on alleged cheating in the conduct of the National Achievement Test (NAT) and has called on people aware of leakage of test questions to report this to DepEd.