“These challenges are confronting us and as we face this pandemic [and] I doubt that this will be our last pandemic, there will be more of them,” Education Secretary Leonor Briones said in a statement issued Saturday, April 17. “We’ll be needing more scientists, more people in science and technology,” she added.
DepEd said that as indicated in its Memorandum No. 15, s. 2021, the grant is open to High School Science and Mathematics teachers who are currently employed with teaching load and have teaching experience of less than seven years. DepEd explained that this program aims to make graduate education more accessible to talented Science and Mathematics teachers who are financially constrained to pursue graduate studies; upgrade the teaching of S&M in the secondary level through teacher education programs; and to accelerate the development of critical mass experts in science and mathematics education.