Marcos OKs Philippines’ gradual return to old academic calendar

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Department Of Education,Ferdinand Marcos Jr.,Sara Duterte

The upcoming school year will end in April 2025, a month earlier than scheduled, enabling the government to bring back the old June to March academic calendar

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MANILA, Philippines – President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has approved the Philippines’ gradual return to the old academic calendar, under which the school year begins in June and ends in March the following year. A press release from the Presidential Communications Office on Wednesday, May 22, said that the upcoming school year 2024 to 2025, which is slated to begin on July 29, will end on April 15, 2025, a month earlier than scheduled.

One of those two options raised the possibility of compelling students to go to school on Saturdays to complete the 180-day school calendar, which Marcos does not want.

 

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