Science teachers get graduate scholarship
THE Aboitiz Foundation and the Davao Light and Power Company is giving a graduate scholarship grant to 18 selected elementary science teachers from different public elementary schools here.
Aboitiz Foundation executive vice president and chief operating officer Augusto P.I. Carpio III and Davao Light executive vice president and chief operating officer Arturo Milan signed the Memorandum of Agreement with partner-school University of Mindanao represented by the school president himself, Dr. Guillermo Torres Jr., and the Department of Education-Davao City Division represented by Superintendent Dr. Helen D. Paguican.
The signing was held October 31, 2013 afternoon at the Bistro Rosario along F. Torres Street in the presence of the teacher-scholars and their immediate district supervisors and school principals, as well as the graduate school teachers from UM all of whom are members of the university’s International Fellows association.
Both Carpio and Milan shared that quality educa- tion has been on the core of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) program of the Aboitiz Group of Companies, with 80 percent devoted thereto..
“We are very excited during the conceptualization of this project. And finally, it is already a reality,” Milan said in his short message.
As his response, Torres lauded the Aboitiz Foundation and Davao Light for their generosity in sending the selected science teachers to learn more about their chosen field. In recognition of such partnership Dr. Torres offered to add two slots to make the total number of grantees 20. The two more teacher-scholars will be at UM’s expense.
For her part, Dr. Paguican said that the scholarship grant is now the opportunity for their teachers to be more capable to handle science subjects.
Only a few teachers make Science as their Major, that’s why, some are teaching science subjects even as they are not Major in Science.
The graduate scholarship program is considered a trail-blazing initiative by Davao Light and the Aboitiz Foundation and their partners University of Mindanao and the DepEd because it is the first ever such project being undertaken nationwide where the major initiators belong to the corporate sector.