Guidelines for SHS Students Work Immersion

  4:25:00 AM

One of the goals of the K to 12 Basic Education Program is to develop in learners the competencies, work ethic, and values relevant to pursuing further education and/or joining the world of work. To achieve greater congruence between basic education and the nation's development targets, Work Immersion, a required subject, has been incorporated into the curriculum. This subject will provide will provide learners with opportunities:

1. to become familiar with the work place; 
2. for employment simulation; and
3. to apply their competencies in areas of specialization/applied subjects in authentic work environments.

Partnership with Institutions shall be governed and guided by the a number of principles and policies included in the DepEd Order.

• Work Immersion requires parental consent.
• Partner Institutions and Work Immersion Venues shall be selected only after thorough study, screening and preparation to ensure that each venue is safe, secure, and suitable place for learning. All applicable safety guidelines of TESDA, DOLE, and other work immersion venue relevant to basic education shall apply.
• Schools may partner with any institution or organization duly registered/recognized by any accrediting government agency. Theses may include cooperatives, local government units (LGUs), duly registered companies, and non-governement organizations (NGOs).
• All Work Immersion agreements at the school level must be covered by a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for the security of all parties involved.

Official document - Downloadable PDF
DepEd Order 30, s. 2017 Work Immersion Guidelines for Senior High School Students PDF

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DOST Scholarship Grants for SHS Graduates of 2018

  3:52:00 AM

The Science Education Institute (SEI) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) provides scholarships to deserving and talented young people who wish to pursue lifetime careers in Science and Technology through its undergraduate scholarship programs.

A highly competitive science and technology scholarship examination is being administered annually wherein applicants should pass it as one of the eligibility requirements for the awarding of the DOST-SEI Undergraduate Scholarships. This examination shall be made available to incoming college freshmen who shall come from the first batch of the graduating students of the DepEd K-12 Program Senior High School.


RA 7687

Republic Act 7687, also known as "Science and Technology Scholarship Act of 1994", provides for scholarships to talented and deserving students whose families' socio-economic status do not exceed the set cut-off values of certain indicators.

Qualifiers must pursue priority fields of study in the basic sciences, engineering. other applied sciences and science and mathematics teaching.


MERIT 

The DOST-SEI Merit Scholarhip Program, formerly known as the NSDB or NSTA Scholarship under RA No. 2067, is awarded to students with high aptitude in science and mathematics and are willing to pursue careers in the fields of science and technology


GENERAL CRITERIA OF ELIGIBILITY:

• natural-born citizen;
• member of the top five percent (5%) of the Non-STEM strand senior high school graduating class; or member of the STEM strand senior high school graduating class; 
• of good moral character and in good health;
• qualifier of the 2018 S&T Scholarship Examination 

(only for RA 7687)

• poor, talented and deserving student who belongs to a a family whose socio-economic status does not exceed the set values of certain indicators;
• resident of the municipality for the last 4 years as attested by the barangay chairman

Know the DOST priority courses here.

DOCUMENT TO BE SUBMITTED: 

• Accomplished application form;
• Photocopy of birth certificate;
• Parents 2016 income tax return/W2/Employement contract. if OFW or Clear photocopy of the 4Ps ID or Municipal / Brgy. Certification that the applicant belongs to indigent family and his/her parents are exempted from filing of Income Tax Return 
• Photocopy of the latest three consecutive months electric bill for 2017;
• assessment form/statement of account from the private high school/scholarship certification (for RA 7687 applicants only);
• Two recent 1x1" pictures 

• If affiliated with a particular tribe, certification of membership from the local Office of Muslim Affairs (OMA)/National Commission on Indigenous People (NCIP)

STUDY PLACEMENT:

State Universities and Colleges;
CHED identified Center of Excellence (COE); or
Centers of Development (COD) for the priority S&T courses


RETURN OF SERVICE CONDITION:

Upon completion of the S&T course, the scholar-graduate shall render service in the country preferably along his/her fields of specialization on a full-time basis for a minimum period equivalent to the length of time he/she availed the scholarship


DATE OF FILING OF APPLICATION: August 25, 2017

DATE OF EXAMINATION: October 15, 2017

You can download the application form here.

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List of DOST Priority Courses

  3:55:00 AM

The Science Education Institute (SEI) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) provides scholarships to deserving and talented young people who wish to pursue lifetime careers in Science and Technology through its undergraduate scholarship programs.

Read the details here.

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The Murder of Kian and Drug Testing of SHS Students

  9:24:00 AM

Senior High School Philippines condemns the senseless killing of grade 11 student Kian Lyod Delos Santos during the "one time big time" drug operation in Caloocan City last August 16.

CCTV footage and testimony of witnesses contradict the statement of police officers that Kian was the one who shot first at cops who were conducting Oplan Galugad that fateful evening.

What is more alarming is that a gun and drug samples were "planted" to the young boy's body in order to justify the bloody encounter and officials seem to tolerate this kind of barbaric act.

Consequently, this issue raises a lot of questions regarding DepEd Secretary Leonor Briones' directive to subject around 60,000 senior high school students in the country to random drug testing. With this order, she might put the lives of students at great risk, knowing that the government has no concrete program yet to rehabilitate drug users and cops appear to rely heavily on their so-called drug list and seem to be in a hurry to meet a "killing quota" per day.

The drug problem is indeed a widespread menace but the killing of innocent lives adds burden to the woes that plague our country.

We, as education stakeholders - teachers, students, parents, community leaders, must express our condemnation of the inhumane and evil acts of wayward cops so as to seek justice for Kian's family as well as to avoid this tragedy from happening again to any of our loved one, student, relative, classmate or friend. #JusticeForKian

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