View source for Central Visayas to get over 6 thousand new teachers

*Source: https://www.philstar.com/the-freeman/cebu-news/bottom-article-list/2018/04/07/1803730/central-visayas-get-over-6-thousand-new-teachers
*Sunday, April 8, 2018
:By May B. Miasco (/FPL, The Freeman) 

CEBU, Philippines — More than 6,000 aspiring teachers in Central Visayas will be hired by the Department of Education in the next school year, a development seen to help address the perennial problem of lack of teachers amid the growing number of students enrolling in public schools to avail of free education.

Over 500 of these new teaching positions were allocated for Cebu City.

The Department of Budget and Management recently announced the approval of the 75,242 new teaching positions for the next school year wherein 6,317 have been allocated for Region-7.

“The number of teachers given by DBM to Region-7 will be the same number that will have to be filled in. That will be divided and distributed to the 19 schools division in Region-7 depending on how many teachers each division need,” said Tomas Pastor, education program supervisor of DepEd-7.

DepEd Cebu City Schools Division superintendent Dr. Bianito Dagatan said his office requested more than 500 teachers; over 300 is expected to be hired for Kindergarten and elementary levels while over 200 is for junior and senior high school levels.

Pastor said the division offices themselves provided the number of teachers needed for the schools in their respective areas; they base their individual request on the number of enrollees in their schools.

DepEd earlier asked for additional positions to resolve the inadequate number of teaching personnel in public schools across the country. Pastor said they have started accepting applicants last January. The list of qualified applicants was already prepared pending the approval of DBM for the allocation of teaching positions.

Dagatan said they will now start the selection process from among those qualified applicants. The DBM said the funds needed to cover for the salaries and other forms of compensation of the new positions will be charged from the 2018 budget.