Representatives of a school district in Kansas will go to the Philippines to recruit teachers for Topeka Unified School District 501. They will look for teachers who can provide instruction in math, science, and special education.-Read more.

The POEA has prepared to make their services better for the thousands of returning OFWs for the holidays. Some of them are the following: Additional counters in its Balik-Manggagawa Processing Center in Ortigas for the processing of Workers-on-Leave (WOL) or Balik-Manggagawa (BMs) and more evaluators, assessors, and cashiers from POEA, OWWA and PhilHealth to be in charge of the added counters.-Read more.

OFWs are warned about the new text scam allegedly sponsored by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). The scammers will notify the prospective victim that they won a total of Php 2 million based on the last digits of their mobile phone in an electronic raffle draw conducted by BSP.

Just like other text scam that has fooled lots of Filipinos, this scam also uses the same tricks in which the swindlers send messages to their victims and accept calls to the mobile numbers they gave. They will ask the unsuspecting victim to transfer money by wire for “processing.-Read more

Dr. Ruben Robillo, vice president of the Philippine Paramedical Technical School of Davao (PPTS), said that more RP nurses will soon be hired to work in The Netherlands. This is because of the Explore Program that PPTS started where 5 Dutch nurses were sent to a Philippine hospital and seven of RP nurses were sent to Netherlands to train for 10 weeks.

The Dutch government was impressed with the performance of the RP nurses that employment for Filipino nurses there is feasible. “The Dutch government has two basic requirements in hiring foreign nurses. First, the nurses should know how to speak their language, and second, they will only hire nurses from other countries if they run out of nurses. They protect their own workers kasi, but they claimed within two years kukulangin din sila ng nurses especially in nursing home institutions,” Robillo said.