November 10, 2026|5:30 pm
Education Secretary Sonny Angara reveals among the brand-new MacBook Neo laptop computers acquired for school instructors and personnel at a Palace rundown Nov. 10, 2026.
Department of Education
MANILA, Philippines– Teachers and school personnel who will get the Department of Education’s recently bought MacBook laptop computers will not have the ability to offer or pawn them off, Education Secretary Sonny Angara stated Tuesday, November 10.
Angara informed a Malacañang press instruction that the laptop computers stay federal government home and are registered in DepEd’s gadget management system, which permits it to lock or disable gadgets from another location if they are taken, offered or pawned.
Those who try to offer the laptop computers might deal with administrative and criminal charges, the DepEd secretary stated.
“These can not be offered due to the fact that they stay federal government home. Every school has a residential or commercial property custodian who monitors the stock and makes certain the laptop computers are utilized effectively,” Angara stated in Filipino.
DepEd is dispersing 172,654 MacBook Neo laptop computers from this month up until March 2027. Of these, 169,008 will go to instructors and 3,646 to administrative personnel. The department is likewise offering 62,717 Windows laptop computers to instructors.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signed up with the circulation of the very first batch of laptop computers on Monday, November 9 at Dagupan City National High School in Pangasinan.
DepEd purchased each MacBook system for about P43,000, or around P6,900 less than the P49,900 market price of the base design in the Philippines. That put the expense of the MacBooks alone at about P7.4 billion.
Apple president John Ternus has actually called it the business’s greatest education offer.
DepEd approximates that each plan deserves more than P70,000 when software application, shipment to schools, instructor training and the guarantee are consisted of.
Asked whether the laptop computers acquired needed to be MacBooks, Angara stated it was not DepEd’s authority to opt for Apple gadgets, as the brand name and the provider were chosen through competitive bidding.
Angara worried that DepEd’s focus was on the specs, in which it intentionally looked for a longer service warranty for the gadgets to conserve on federal government expenses on repair work.
The MacBook Neo systems have a five-year guarantee, the very first time that DepEd’s laptop computer for instructors will have a guarantee longer than a year.
Under DepEd’s Teacher Assignment for Laptop Allocation standards, the brand-new laptop computers will be dispersed based upon school and instructor populations. Schools and instructors that have actually not yet gotten a federal government laptop computer will be focused on.
If a school has more certified instructors than laptop computers in a concern group, it should hold a raffle with witnesses to choose the receivers at random.
Still fails?
The purchase of MacBook systems for instructors has actually not agreed with the ACT Teachers Partylist, as Rep. Antonio Tinio thinks these still “fall far short of meeting the digital needs of the entire education workforce.”
“Even combined with laptops already under contract, this procurement will serve only a fraction of our nearly 900,000 public school teachers. The overwhelming majority will still be left to provide for themselves,” Tinio stated in a declaration recently.
“No school should have to resort to lotteries or contest-style distribution just to decide which of its workers get the tools of their trade. These are necessities, not prizes,” he stated.
The Teachers’ Dignity Coalition invited the purchase and circulation of the brand-new laptop computers however asked DepEd to focus on class instructors.
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