In an addition to issues raised by Caffeine_Sparks, the print edition of today’s Philippine Daily Inquirer carries a news item reporting that the Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines (CEAP) is seeking an exemption from the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of the recently passed Magna Carta of Women. The law prohibits the dismissal of [...]
The Inquirer’s Calipjo-Go postmortem: A letter to Mr Go
December 6, 2008 By 97 Comments
Dear Mr Calipjo-Go I say “Well done Mr Antonio Calipjo-Go”! The Philippine Daily Inquirer has felt that a whole editorial on your “demise” is needed. Since I am an educator myself, I have seen and read how bad the textbook situation is. But the PDI respectfully called the Innuendo by our Dear DJB doesn’t provide [...]
On being called doctors
December 2, 2008 By 9 Comments
PhDs are considered to occupy a tad lower in the “doctor” hierarchy in Pinoy society. Physicians occupy the top traditionally since medicos provide health services that can make the difference between life and death. Dentists occupy a lower rung. Optometrists too and obviously vets. Pinoy society call all of them doctors. Pinoys are extremely title conscious [...]
Frustration and Tomorrow
November 21, 2008 By 17 Comments
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 [...]
UP’s RGEP? Plain and Simple Idiocy.
November 14, 2008 By 30 Comments
For now I will leave to my esteemed colleagues the discussions on the new impeachment case, the unconstitutional GRP-MILF MOA-AD, the Joc-Joc joke and other hot stuff in the news today. Instead, I’m going to take a leaf from Blackshama‘s book and focus on another of my personal advocacies — education. Specifically, a program of [...]
On the edge of reform of Pinoy education
November 12, 2008 By 18 Comments
Basic education reform is close to my heart since those who end up in my freshman class are products of our basic education system. The extent of reform and its hindrances are the subject of Professors Cynthia Bautista of UP College of Social Science and Philosophy, Dina Ocampo of the UP College of Education and [...]
Where education should be focused – a proposal
October 5, 2008 By 31 Comments
A while back, The Jester in Exile issued out a call to revamp education system of the Philippines. When a call such as this is issued out, what usually separates the men from the boys (or the truly insightful from the Madcats ;) ) is the ability to actually come up with a proposal. Interestingly [...]
Can the Future Be Designed (Redux)?
October 1, 2008 By 22 Comments
Revamp the Philippine Educational System?
September 29, 2008 By 75 Comments
(Excerpted from The Journal of The Jester-in-Exile and adapted for this blog.) Here on Filipino Voices, our new colleague blackshama has posted two interesting articles: What’s really wrong with Philippine Science? and What is terribly wrong with the University of the Philippines?, in which he brings to the table a couple of timely and valuable [...]
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