Briones on online learning: Education Secretary Leonor Briones tells Sen. Manuel “Manny” Pacquiao that one of the toughest challenges the education department is facing is the conversion of “face to face learning,” where teachers and students are in classrooms, to that of “blended learning” in areas where there can be no face to face relationship. “We will be using various approaches such as online learning. We did a survey and found that most of the teachers have smart cellphones. For places where the internet is not accessible, we are considering the use of television and radio as means to reach our students,” Briones said during the Committee of the Whole Thursday, May 21, 2020. (Screen grab/Senate PRIB)
Nearly 10 million students have enrolled for the incoming school year, according to Department of Education (DepEd) statistics.
Education Secretary Leonor Briones told a Senate hearing that the 9,961,396 students made up 36 percent of projected enrollment for 2020.
Some 9.6 million will be attending the country’s public schools starting on Aug. 24.
Three regions surpassed 1 million enrollees as of Thursday: Calabarzon (1.6 million), Metro Manila (1.3 million) and Central Luzon (1 million). —MATTHEW REYSIO-CRUZ
