Featured Story — Pinning and Candle lighting Ceremony is a time-honored Nursing School Tradition. It is a rite that marks the passage of every nursing student into the highly esteemed Nursing Profession. The lighting of the candle commemorates Florence Nightingale's nighttime aid to wounded soldiers during the Crimean War by a candlelight. The pin represents responsibility, duty and commitment and the lamp signifies life and hope. It is therefore a very significant and symbolic event in every student nurse.

Minimal rollback on LPG prices in July

MANILA – Industry players implemented a minimal price rollback on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) for July.

Starting at 12:01 a.m. Friday, Petron implemented a decrease of PHP0.40 per kilogram on LPG. It also slashed AutoLPG prices by PHP0.22 per liter.

“These reflect the international contract price of LPG for the month of July,” Petron's advisory said.

Solane-branded LPG also followed the rollback at 6 a.m. this day., cutting household LPG prices by PHP0.36 per kilogram.

The price adjustments reflected a decrease of PHP3.96 to PHP4.40 for a regular 11-kilogram household LPG tank.

LPG prices have gone down for three straight months. However, the adjustment for July was the lowest rollback since May this year.

Data from the energy department showed that the average price of an 11-kilogram LPG cylinder in Metro Manila last month stood at PHP970. (PNA)

DOST e-library to be available in rural areas via datacasting

MANILA – The digital library Science and Technology Academic and Research-Based Openly Operated Kiosk Station (STARBOOKS) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) will soon be available via datacasting.

Starbooks is a stand-alone information source designed to reach those with limited or no access to Science and Technology information resources.

The project provides STI (Science, Technology, and Innovation)-based content in various formats to students and other constituents in geographically isolated and economically challenged schools and communities nationwide.

It contains hundreds of thousands of digitized science and technology resources in various formats (text, like investigative materials, journals and encyclopedia, and video/audio) placed in specially designed “pods” set in a user-friendly interface.

"The latest shift in learning, from traditional face-to-face to remote education, has highlighted the need for a reliable ICT (information and communications technology) infrastructure and system in the country. It has also revealed the widening digital divide in unserved and underserved areas, where access to the internet and information are minimal to none," ASTI Director Franz de Leon said in a statement.

ASTI will train local IT personnel from DOST regional offices, who will manage the datacasting and the Starbooks resources.

The Institute will also accommodate the Starbooks’ researchers working on alternative teaching modalities to assess the effectiveness of datacasting.

ASTI will provide data on the number of times the resources were watched and will help in conducting a social impact assessment.

In addition, STII will provide orientation and training to supervisors and teachers.

Should there be technical problems, the STII shall manage the repair and troubleshooting activities.

"With this partnership, we are taking another significant step to achieving our shared goal of improving the state of infrastructure, education, resilience, and overall quality of life in the country," de Leon said. (PNA)

TESDA Conducts Training Induction Program at SCC Central Campus.

TESDA's Technical Support Staff Scholarship Program Ms. Mary Grace SM Reyes, conducts a formal Training Induction Program (TIP) orientation for Diploma in Nursing Services and Management Batch 3 Technology and Diploma in Computer Management and Technology Batch 2 at the Audio Visual Room, Southern City Colleges, Inc. Zamboanga City. In the photo is Mr. Marjon O. Madiog, Tesda Coordinator giving some pointers and instructions to students.

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