Maasin City (June 19) — For the current school year, 2009-2010, the province of Southern Leyte got 554 slots under the Pangulong Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo scholarship program for tertiary technical-vocational education. According to Rolando Juanillo, the Provincial Director of the Technical Education Skills Development Authority (TESDA), this year’s PGMA scholarship vouchers have been allocated a budget [...]

Naida G. Lasangre, 51, an instructress at the Lupon School of Fisheries (LSF), a TESDA technical-vocational institution in Lupon, Davao Oriental, has won the Civil Service Commission’s 2008 Dangal ng Bayan Award. She is one of the seven winners in this category of the CSC’s yearly search for outstanding government employees, and was selected on [...]