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DepEd: Reforms underway to address functional illiteracy
04 Nov 2025 17:39 GMT
… — Reforms are underway to address functional illiteracy in the Philippines, the Department …
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Functional illiteracy and our diploma mills
03 Nov 2025 17:29 GMT
ACCORDING to a 2024 Philippine Statistics Authority survey, around 18.9 million Filipinos are functionally illiterate. This means that they can read, write and compute but lack the ability to fully comprehend and use information in daily life. This can be …
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The weight of functional illiteracy, 2
28 Sep 2025 18:48 GMT
… fix this. As Ladrido emphasized, functional illiteracy is not just a school …
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The weight of functional illiteracy, 1
26 Sep 2025 20:29 GMT
THE NUMBERS did not whisper—they shouted. According to the 2024 FLEMMS survey, only 68.4% of people in Iloilo Province and 70.7% in Iloilo City are functionally literate—the lowest in Western Visayas.
Once hailed as an academic stronghold, Iloilo now …
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Violence as Pseudo-Identity*
15 Nov 2025 11:05 GMT
… about the phenomenon known as functional illiteracy, i.e. people who have …
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CBCP warns of stunting, malnutrition, functional illiteracy among kids
11 Aug 2025 15:31 GMT
… in severe stunting and malnutrition, functional illiteracy, and low participation in child … CBCP raised concern on the functional illiteracy among children, or the situation …
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Functional illiteracy a barrier to progress in Western Visayas
07 Jun 2025 00:00 GMT
… -governmental organizations should seriously treat functional illiteracy not as a peripheral concern …
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Legarda: Functional illiteracy wearing down PH workforce
11 May 2025 20:03 GMT
… . Loren Legarda warned that widespread functional illiteracy would weaken the Filipino workforce …
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Read, Write, Fail? Legarda Decries ‘Functional Illiteracy’ Crisis in PH
05 May 2025 07:27 GMT
… has raised alarm over the “functional illiteracy” crisis affecting nearly 19 million … with the highest rates of functional illiteracy, most of which also suffer …
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Abby Binay bares her solution to functional illiteracy problem
03 May 2025 14:56 GMT
… CITY, Batangas--The problem of functional illiteracy among Filipinos can be addressed …