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Friends who have kids about to enter college have been pestering me on how to improve their kids chances of getting into 1) UP, 2) Ateneo 3) DLSU and 4) UST. The kids are in the process of lodging applications for admissions in the university. Even a monsoonal downpour wasn’t able to disperse a long [...]
It is no longer news that graduate (or more accurately postgraduate) qualifications are needed in getting a job promotion especially in the government sector and more increasingly in the private sector. In the higher education sector, a masters qualification is the minimum needed in employment as a regular faculty member in a teaching college. This [...]
Professor Isagani Cruz of De La Salle University has written much on the shortcomings of basic and higher education in the country. He believes that the country has no choice but to add a year or more to the years we have to spend in school if we are to meet international obligations. (I recall [...]
I first read about the story of textbook crusader Antonio Calipjo-Go when I was a PhD candidate in Australia, Apprently he had made an advocacy of detecting errors in basic education textbooks. I never saw anything wrong with that. All writers make errors textbook writers not excepted. That’s why publishing houses hire editors of all [...]
It’s frustrating! The divisiveness, the single-minded nature of this country and how often our leadership’s decisions are idiotic, self-centered, often indecisive, and self-defeating— it baffles the imagination, you know? Did I mention, frustrating? Not just our politics, even our local church is so frustratingly stultifying you have to wonder, if this is the same Church [...]
This another of my attempts to echo the UP centennial lectures. Since my chair has given me the unenviable task of attending as much as possible these lectures, I might as well tell all FV readers what the lectures were all about. Besides many FV readers are UP alums and since there is renewed drive to get [...]
Filipinos have been the receipient of development scholarships for over a hundred years. When the Americans imposed their sovereignty over the country, one of their first priorities was to send Filipinos to school in the US. They were called “pensionados” or government scholars. Among the most notable is Dr Honoria Acosta-Sison, first Pinay physician. Breaking with [...]
The 100th year of the University of the Philippines is a time for a series of big parties, oblation runs, centennial lectures, a Big Dome Alumni homecoming, several theatrical extravaganzas and of course the Mother of all Lantern Parades to close the year. Not even a typhoon could stop the Alumni homecoming. But the only lowdown could [...]
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