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The Senate on Monday, December 11, 2023, ratified the harmonized version of the 2024 General Appropriations Bill (GAB) which contains the proposed P5.768 trillion budget for next year.
Recalling the Philippine ambassador to China is the "strongest message" the Philippines can send diplomatically as tensions rise in the disputed West Philippine Sea, Senator Francis Tolentino said on Tuesday.
While results of the 2022 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) showed that the country's 15-year-old learners did not regress despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Senator Win Gatchalian attributed students' performance to the high level of support that teachers gave.
Mr President, just a few points I'd like to raise. I fully support our Chairperson [Senator Sonny Angara] in the difficult decisions he had to make. So I'll just throw in my greetings for the Chairman's hard work. I know very well that he defended to the best of his ability, until the last minute, some amendments that we would have wanted, especially in the education sector, along with our Chairman of the Committee on Basic Education. This really would be the budget that we would have wanted to be included to support our goal of improving the education system, Mr. President. I won't go into details, but I know for a fact that our Chairman worked really hard to try to secure that budget.
Given the high respiratory cases in PH
The Senate on Monday (Dec. 11) passed on third and final reading two-education related measures sponsored by Sen. Chiz Escudero, which would waive the college entrance examination fees of deserving students and amend the land use development law covering state universities and colleges (SUCs).
State Universities and Colleges will be required to provide a master development plan following the approval of a Senate bill seeking to amend Republic Act No. 11396 or the SUC Land Use Development and Infrastructure Plan (LUDIP) Act.
The Senate on Monday, December 11, 2023, concurred with the Philippines' ratification of the International Labour Organization (ILO) convention addressing violence and harassment in the world of work.