A new World Bank report found the Philippines to have one of the most ineffective teaching practices in Southeast Asia, and past teacher training programs have failed to improve mastery of content.

Bayani Fernando, long-time public servant of Marikina City and former chairperson of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, died on Friday. He was 77.

Ombudsman Samuel Martires asked Congress on Monday to strike off budget provisions that require the publication of initial audit findings on agencies’ spending to prevent the public from making premature judgments of possible corruption.

In Senate Bill 2200 or the Basic Education Mental Health and Well-Being Promotion Act, DepEd will have new plantilla positions for “Mental Health Specialists” and “Mental Health Associates." 

There was “no pressure of any kind” that triggered DepEd’s decision to drop the name of the president’s father from “Diktadurang Marcos,” DepEd Director Jocelyn Andaya said.

The Senate president mentioned that there are “hundreds of millions” of CIFs in other agencies compared to the “measly P10 million and P39.74 million” allocated to the PCG and the Navy, respectively.

Malacañang has justified the “termination” of a ranking official at the Department of Finance, saying that she has long been unsupportive of the Marcos administration.

“As always, expect an oversupply of platitudes from ghostwriters paid for by politicians using taxpayers’ money. Elected officials never miss opportunities like this to have their names ringing in our ears, enough to last till the next election."

Marcos said hoarding and smuggling are the only factors driving up the prices of rice. But this runs contrary to the executive order he issued last week, which cited "global events" as other reasons driving up rice prices.

The Senate higher, technical and vocational education committee has issued a show cause order against officials of the University of Manila after they failed to show up to its hearing on Monday about alleged irregularities in its grading system.

Duterte also said that the surveillance activities funded by the OVP's confidential expenses had led to the arrest of a scammer posing as an OVP representative to “sell” livelihood projects in Bulacan.