Canada offers scholarships to educators

MANILA, Philippines -  The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has inked a partnership with the Canadian Bureau of International Education to provide various scholarship and capacity-building opportunities for teachers in Philippine higher education institutions.

The collaboration will facilitate mobility programs for faculty and staff to pursue graduate degrees in Canadian universities.

It will also provide a venue for training programs on institutional internationalization, as well as second career education and community college best practices.

“We remain committed to forging new partnerships with the goal of granting scholarships and capacity-building opportunities to our college faculty and staff,” CHED chair Patricia Licuanan said.

“We look forward to strengthening their academic qualifications and enhancing their teaching through mobility and training programs in collaboration with Canadian universities,” she added.

Under the partnership, qualified faculty and staff will be awarded scholarships to pursue master or doctoral studies.

Aside from graduate scholarships, Licuanan said the faculty and staff can also apply for training programs on institutional internationalization, which will provide assistance in the development of implementation strategies, partnership-building curriculum development, research opportunities, and funding mechanisms.

“Faculty and staff may also choose to be trained on second career program or adult education, which focuses on the strategies and methods geared towards meeting the specific needs and abilities of adult learners,” CHED said.

“Participants will explore the principles of pedagogy, curriculum development, and assessment and evaluation techniques relating to mature students,” it added.

Another training program will highlight Canadian best practices in community colleges at both the ministry and institutional level.