Category: education
Philippine higher education: Put the right people in charge
By Flor Lacanilao This is a review of some issues I have discussed related to higher education. Although some have asked why I often repeat what is already said, I remind those in science that I repeat only what is … Continue reading
“…the Philippines without science cannot be saved.”
a new book Reforming Philippine Science by Dr. Raul Suarez and Dr. Flor Lacanilao, published by the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC/AQD), has a graph on its cover that compares the number of scientific publications yearly of … Continue reading
Fix major education problems first–Nebres
By Philip Tubeza MANILA, Philippines—Ateneo de Manila University president Fr. Bienvenido Nebres has criticized the Aquino administration’s plan to add two more years to basic education, saying the government should focus first on cutting the number of “illiterates” the country … Continue reading
bookbug blues
i could be more upset about the book tax. i am a bookbug, after all. i buy imported and local fiction and non-fiction regularly, mostly imported mostly english, and i read them all as a matter of pleasure, of study, … Continue reading
the senator’s daughter 2
thanks to anna de brux for asking: Youmean to say that sex education is still not part of the school curriculum in Pinas? That accounts for the phenomenal population ‘explosion’ in the country.” there is some “sex education” going on in … Continue reading
the senator’s daughter
pregnant at 18. what a bummer for bong revilla and lani mercado, no matter what they say (now that they’re over the shock and the shame) that it’s okay, they did their best, hindi sila nagkulang sa pangaral, hindi naman … Continue reading
elderly divide – lumbera vs. salonga & bernas
it wasn’t a face-off, just three of our elders one-on-one with korina sanchez: first former senate president jovito salonga, then the jesuit constitutional commissioner father joaquin bernas, and finally national artist for literature bienvenido lumbera. no doubt natuwa ang palasyo … Continue reading
of med schools & sluts
O.A. na talaga the howl over the desperate housewife’s dig at diplomas of philippine med schools. besides the class action suit to be filed by filipino doctors in the u.s. against producers abc/walt disney, a second lawsuit is being planned … Continue reading
Serendipity (St. Scho in the ‘60s)
Serendipity was originally published in Daughters True, St. Scho’s centennial offering, which won the National Book Award 2007. I was five when I entered St. Scho and sixteen when I left for U.P. Diliman. After twelve years of convent schooling … Continue reading