COUNTRY FOCUS: PHILIPPINES
Filipino students
benefit from flexible
learning thanks
to technology
partnership
PLDT Enterprise is providing mobile data and access to learning
platforms to students at PHINMA Education institutions to
enable real-time communication and collaboration.
PHINMA Education has partnered
with PLDT to provide mobile data
and access to learning platforms to
students in five schools and universities
across the Philippines.
“We are pleased to secure this partnership
with PLDT Enterprise to help our students
navigate education in the new normal,” said
Dr Raymundo P. Reyes, PHINMA Education,
Chief Operations Officer (COO).
“Technology that facilitates flexible learning
is one of our strategies to continue delivering
quality education, in spite of limitations in
conducting face-to-face classes.”
PLDT Enterprise will provide mobile data
and access to learning platforms to students
of PHINMA University of Pangasinan in
Dagupan City, PHINMA UPang College
in Urdaneta City, PHINMA University of
Iloilo, PHINMA St. Jude College in the City
of Manila, PHINMA Republican College in
Quezon City and Southwestern University
PHINMA in Cebu City.
Jovy Hernandez, ePLDT President and
CEO and SVP and Head for PLDT and
Smart Enterprise Business Groups, said:
“PLDT Enterprise’s SMART Giga Study
data plans are really geared toward
providing support for students and teachers.
This is a challenging time for the education
sector, which is why supporting various
learning modalities like e-Learning has
become one of our most urgent priorities
at PLDT Enterprise.”
With SMART Giga Study data plans,
students and teachers are given access
to the basic programs they need for
collaborative learning and individual
research, such as Microsoft 365 and
G Suite by Google.
“These programs will help everyone
accomplish their work easily and also be
able to communicate and collaborate in
real time,” added Hernandez.
PHINMA Education is also receiving
a value-added service from PLDT
Enterprise which includes a free SMS
Messaging Suite for every campus per
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