October 12, 2022
Bayad and DepEd, Empowering Filipino Youth Through Financial Literacy
September 21, 2022
EdVenture partners with Knowledge Channel for “Wikaharian”
September 11, 2022
World Vision awards One For Children seal to Delex Pharma International, Inc.
World Vision thanks Delex Pharma International, Inc. for supporting World Vision’s health nutrition and children’s education programs. |
World Vision Resource Development Director Jun Godornes and Donor Care Manager, Precious Basco salute Delex Pharma Managers. |
September 8, 2022
Singlife launches ‘Cash for Goals (Education)’ a better way to fund your child’s ambitions
Filipino Parents understand that quality education is the best way to pave a better life for their children. However, college tuition fees are expensive and continue to increase annually. To make sure there is money when it’s needed, they need to start building an education fund as early as possible. Singlife Philippines developed Cash for Goals (Education) to help parents prepare for education expenses.
- Start investing with just Php 2,500 with Singlife’s Cash for Goals (Education)’
August 19, 2022
Shopee continues its pursuit of upskilling young tech talent through the Ultimate Case Challenge
August 8, 2022
Canva shares visual communication tips for more effective learning
July 8, 2022
PLDT Home, Google launch Be Internet Awesome online series
(L-R): PLDT Senior Vice President and Head of Consumer Business Home Group, Jeremiah de la Cruz; Google Philippines Marketing Head, Gabby Roxas; First Vice President and Head of PLDT Home Product Management and Marketing, John Henri Yanez
Actor
and TV host KC Montero and family
Stratworks
PR Director Mark Christian Parlade and sons
Edu-preneurs
and media personalities Edric and Joy Mendoza with their family
(L-R)
Actor, singer and writer Franco Laurel and daughter with PLDT Assistant Vice
President and Head of Marketing PR
July 6, 2022
Board topnotchers, 97% NLE passing rate, and high employability of graduates: Stellar Results Mark PHINMA Education’s 18 Years of Serving the Underserved
More than a decade ago, Elbert Kay Serrano wanted to be a nurse. His parents, a farmer and a canteen helper, didn’t have the resources to help him finish college. Elbert worked any job he could get -- a caregiver, a service crew at a fast food chain, a clerk, a helper-while taking up nursing at PHINMA Araullo University.
Elbert is just one of the thousands of
underserved Filipinos whose chances of getting into college and finishing their
degree is hampered by their circumstances. “Getting into college and graduating can often be prohibitively
expensive for poor families,” said Dr. Chito B. Salazar, PHINMA Education
President and CEO. “This barrier to entry is one of the many challenges that we
are tackling because we believe that every Filipino
deserves to have quality education.”
Owing to its mission to serve the underserved, PHINMA Education schools do not have entrance tests to make it easy for students to enroll and get the quality education they deserve.
An education network for the underserved
Recent data from the Commission of Higher Education (CHED) shows that only 33% of college-aged Filipinos are currently enrolled. PHINMA Education, by intent and design, has been addressing this issue for the past 18 years. The education network, which now operates 10 schools in the Philippines and Indonesia, prides itself on crafting programs and interventions that make it easy for underserved students to get the quality education they want and deserve.
To date, PHINMA Education has over 95,000 students across its ten campuses in the Philippines and Indonesia. Of this number, around 60% are benefiting from theHawak Kamay Scholarship program that provides discounts of up to 75% on enrollment fees. There are no entrance exams to make entry less prohibitive. It also monitors Students-at-Risk (StARs) and conducts home visits to help students return to school.
In 2021, PHINMA Education launched
KANLUNGAN, a free individual therapy program for both employees and students. “We don’t stop at simply giving out scholarships. We
make sure that their mental and emotional needs as first-generation college
students are also taken care of,” Dr. Salazar said.
Beyond giving out scholarships to the majority of its student population, PHINMA Education also ensures that students are mentally and emotionally well through interventions, assistance, and therapy sessions.
Learning strategies that adapt to changing needs
“When the pandemic started, we resolved
that nothing should stop our students from learning and
we prepared models that would provide them the flexibility they require in order to learn unhampered,” Dr. Salazar explained. “Our models proved to be so successful that we are now making them a permanent option for our schools.”
The two models, Flex Learning and Remote
and Distance (RAD) Learning, relied on printed activity sheets combined with
strong teacher and peer support through a mobile data allocation that renewed
every month. At no additional cost, students were able to access Facebook
Messenger
and G-suite tools to do their course work and attend webinars. FlexLearning students will have in-person classes once regulations allow, while RadLearning students will continue to be home-based.
While the pandemic brought difficulties, it also brought opportunities as PHINMA Education piloted two new learning models that allowed students flexibility. The success of these models made them permanent options across the education network
High board passing results across schools
Elbert Kay Serrano graduated in 2013 and is now a municipal representative for the Department of Health (DOH) in Nueva Ecija. He is also working on getting his doctorate. Those who want to follow in his footsteps are in good hands: PHINMA Education has a 79% board passing rate for first-time takers. Even better, in the recently concluded Nursing Licensure Examination (NLE), the five PHINMA Education schools with first-time takers averaged 97%.
PHINMA Education creates models that help students learn unhampered. These efforts have shown great results with schools under the network garnering 92.54% overall passing rate in the NLE and 79% passing rate for first-time takers in other board examinations.
“We are proud to have six topnotchers in the NLE with PHINMA University of Pangasinan (PHINMA UPang) students placing 3rd, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 10th, while a Southwestern University PHINMA (SWU PHINMA) student placed 9th,” shared Dr. Salazar. “PHINMA UPang was also cited as the second top performing school in the country for having a total of 62 passers, including second takers, and a 92.54% overall passing rate,” he added.
From 2004 to May 2022, the network has had 122 board exam topnotchers in the Philippines across courses such as Nursing, Education, Criminology, Electrical Engineering, Medical Technology, and Medicine.
Affordable education towards employability
More than 70% of PHINMA Education graduates are employed within a year after graduation, a percentage expected to increase as the economy bounces back from the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We believe that the school’s responsibility does not stop the moment a student graduates. Rather, schools should keep supporting their students, including ensuring that they get the help they need to get employed after graduation,” Dr. Salazar stated. PHINMA Education partners with companies that provide training and internships to help students become work-ready.
PHINMA Education’s placement office, Alumni and Corporate Engagement (ACE), currently has 259 active companies in various industries that provide hiring, internship, and training for its students.Aside from online career fairs, graduating students go through mock interviews and feedback sessions with their teachers to prepare them for actual job interviews. Students also attend a series of webinars and career talks with industry partners.
For almost two decades, PHINMA Education has shown that quality, private education does not need to be expensive to be effective. Serving underserved students by tailoring its strategies to their needs, resources, and aspirations, has enabled it to make lives better through education. It’s a mission that the company is determined to pursue even more diligently in the years to come.
PHINMA Education, through strategic partnerships with companies and industries, provides students with assistance and resources to help them land jobs after graduation.
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PHINMA Education Holdings, Inc. (PEHI) under the conglomerate PHINMA Corporation, started investing in the education services sector in 2004 through the acquisition of PHINMA Araullo University in Nueva Ecija. It has since expanded its presence across the country with its network of schools namely: PHINMA Cagayan de Oro College, PHINMA University of Pangasinan, PHINMA University of Iloilo, Southwestern University PHINMA in Cebu City, PHINMA Saint Jude College in Manila, PHINMA Republican College in Quezon City, PHINMA Rizal College of Laguna, and PHINMA Union College of Laguna. It also aims to expand across Southeast Asia beginning with Horizon Education in Indonesia. For more information, please visit: https://www.phinma.edu.ph
May 11, 2022
Malayan Colleges Mindanao Engages Parents in Supporting Their Children’s Hybrid Learning
April 28, 2022
Cebuana Lhuillier Foundation makes education accessible to grassroots communities with 100th ALS Center
January 12, 2022
PHINMA Education fulfills Unbreakable Commitment to accessible education in the next normal
December 28, 2021
Globe strengthens cyber education campaign; calls on customers to stay vigilant in protecting their data
December 12, 2021
Strong ties form a brighter future for kids under the USAID, NEAP and DepEd Evidence Based Literacy Leadership
The journey of the young minds and the growth of their mental ability to learn has been the concern of the Department of Education, National Educators Academy of the Philippines and the USAID. Despite the absence of face-to-face classes due to the worldwide health crisis, this was never the stumbling block of the three agencies to pursue the continuous growth of the kids to learn and enhance their reading skills and ability to learn in the absence of a teacher physically present.
November 24, 2021
Lampara Books hopes to promote spiritual formation and values education through its Guiding Light imprint
The new Philippine imprint offers inspiring stories centered on Christ’s teachings and fun, purpose-driven storytelling
The family-oriented and faith-based imprint aims to promote the spiritual formation, values education, emotional growth, and community development through highly entertaining but transformative books written and designed by some of the world’s most promising and award-winning writers, illustrators, and personalities.
“It has always been our goal to inspire adult readers, most especially parents, to engage with their children on stories of inspiration, joy, and life lessons within a framework of Christ-centered beliefs and teachings,” says Segundo D. Matias Jr., the Chief Publisher of Lampara Books. “Our activity books create bonding moments between mom and dad with their kids through storytelling that put good values at the forefront of its principles while inspiring everyone to become a better human being.”
For its premiere offering, Guiding Light has recently released its ‘Little Life Lessons on’ series—a collection of fun activity books that parents and their children can color, play around with, and use as a medium for purpose-driven instruction. Written in both English and Filipino, the series is made for childhood care providers and parents to help their kids learn important values in life. The ‘Little Life Lessons on’ catalog contains inspirational stories that depict kindness, obedience, respect, and love, among many others.
The motivational imprint also takes pride of its Family Bible Illustrated edition, which has 365 pages of bible stories, meditations, and prayers for the whole family to reflect on together, and The Comic Book Bible, which offers a treasury of stories, known and loved by generations of readers.
For readers who are looking for a refreshing spin to the familiar narrative, there is Classic Bible Stories, illustrated for pictures-and-words format by talented young artist Tommaso d' Incalei. Bringing stories to life for a new generation of readers, this timeless collection will inspire people discover the meaning behind the teachings of God in an exciting and easy-to-read way. Another significant title under its banner is The Classic Children’s Bible, which is beautifully illustrated and presented to cater to a younger readership.
Other titles that are currently available at the Guiding Light website are Rhona Davies’ The Life Of Christ, strikingly illustrated to chronicle the important life events that Jesus Christ went through from his days in Galilee to joining God in heaven, and Angela M. Burrin’s Welcome To The Mass, a beautifully illustrated book that ‘explains the Mass by linking the liturgy to scenes from the Gospels.’
The
classic and new titles are available at the Guiding Light official website, https://www.guidinglight.com.ph.