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Bajarin chalks up 10th in LET’s top list |
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The long wait is over. After seven years, the Institute of Education (IEd) has made another milestone in the history of the Tarlac College of Agriculture (TCA) as one of its products emerged as among the top performing graduates in the 2011 Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) given on Sept. 25. Ms. Ofelia Bajarin, who graduated as the highest ranked cum laude of TCA last April, successfully hurdled the 2011 LET and ranked No. 10 among the more than 10,000 elementary teachers who passed the said examination, based on the results released by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) on Nov.17. Bajarin, 21, of Sapang, Moncada, Tarlac is now the second TCA Teacher Education graduate who landed in the LET top ten passers after Mr. Julius Ervin A. Javier who secured the 7th place in 2004 . Ofelia, or Ofel, disclosed that she deliberately persevered in attending the IEd’s LET review classes. She also admitted that she allotted a regular 9-hour review time, from Mondays thru Saturdays, to cover all the required competencies in the LET, and regarded Sundays as her rest day and time for God. As planned, she finished reading/reviewing all her review materials covering all learning areas in the LET as early as 3rd week of August. [Read More..] |
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MPG tours India, inks pact on PHIRARDEP |
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Written by OPPA
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 Dr. Max P. Guillermo, president of Tarlac College of Agriculture (TCA), together with Dr. Tessie E. Navarro, the College’s VP for Research, Extension and Training (VP-RET), have recently invaded India to actualize a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), a non-profit, non-political international organization aiming to strengthen the country’s rainfed agriculture research, development and extension. ICRISAT, which aspires to help developing countries mobilize science to increase dryland agricultural crop productivity, has expressed its desire to link up with TCA in its mandate to pursue research and extension functions through partnerships with national and international research institutions, in order to implement the Philippine Rainfed Agriculture Research, Development and Extension Program (PHIRARDEP). The abovementioned institutions both recognize the importance of establishing and fostering research, development and extension (RD&E) collaboration to carry out PHIRARDEP and thus to facilitate the project’s implementation, TCA and ICRISAT signed a MOA embodying the policies governing the execution of the scheme on sustaining the country’s rainfed agriculture. [Read More] |
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TCA researchers present studies in ISSAAS nat’l confab |
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Written by OPPA
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 The Tarlac College of Agriculture has proven anew its proficiency in conceptualizing socially-significant researches as some of its researchers have qualified to present their papers at the 11th International Society for Southeast Asian Agricultural Sciences (ISSAAS) Philippine National Convention and International Forum at the Hotelvida Convention Center, Clarkfield, Angeles City, Pampanga on Oct. 25-26.
Anchored on the theme, “Environmental Conservation, Food Security and Health Risk Eradication”, the said event aimed to shed light and provide updates on the state of the environment and how ecological risks and environmental degradation affect the health and food security of a community, particularly in terms of emerging trends, issues, and directions. The research studies presented by TCA researchers addressed four thematic areas namely: environmental conservation and sustainable development, food security and competitive agriculture, environmental risk management and climate change. [Read More] |
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Reigniting awareness on administration and financial policies and procedures AFS office initiates reorientation seminar |
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Written by OPPA
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 To further educate the concerned staff with the fundamental guidelines on finance, the Administration and Financial Services unit of the Tarlac College of Agriculture headed by Dr. Jeremias DC Rodriguez, VP for Administration and Financial Services (VP-AFS), spearheaded a one-day reorientation seminar on administration and financial policies and procedures held at the Research and Development Hall on Oct. 20.
The seminar convened the heads of units/ offices and their staff assigned to do clerical jobs. The participants were reoriented on five vital issues concerning financial matters. Before the seminar proper, Rodriguez gave an overview of the activity to familiarize the delegates with the series of topics to be discussed in the reorientation seminar. [Read More...] |
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Pre-service teachers hold investiture |
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Written by OPPA
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 Donned in their pre-service uniforms, senior students of the Institute of Education (IEd) marched with self-esteem and elation as they were conferred with authority to act as future mentors during the Pre-service Teachers’ Investiture held Nov. 11, 2011 at the Tarlac College of Agriculture (TCA) Gilberto O. Teodoro Multipurpose Hall.
Jointly organized by Bachelor of Secondary Education (BSE) and Bachelor of Elementary Education (BEEd) practice teaching officers, with the support and supervision of Prof. Emerson B. Cuzzamu (BSE) and Dr. Lucena Garcia (BEEd) as practice teaching coordinators, the Pre-service Teachers’ Investiture was held to cordially welcome future educators to the porch of teaching, before deploying them to their respective cooperating schools. The ceremonial endeavor, which was anchored on the theme, “Pre-service Teaching: Geared towards the Call for the K-12 Curriculum,” was graced by Mr. Bobby C. Caoagdan, who is a proud alumnus of TCA and presently serves as the Principal of Birbira National High School and at the same time, the Division ICT Coordinator. [Read More] |
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