Education Secretary Leonor Briones has formed an investigating team to look into reported corruption in the agency, involving the bidding of projects and travels abroad by several of its officials.

Meanwhile, the good governance group Filipino Alliance for Transparency and Empowerment appealed to Briones to look into reports that Multifocus Corp., a supplier to the Department of Education (DepEd), sponsored a junket to China for some of the agency’s inspectors to check “cabinets for bidding.”

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