Category: Education

The Philippines cannot progress without an intelligent civil service

June 17, 2024 benign0 13 Comments

Nothing is more confronting than statistical facts. Today’s Inquirer op-ed, “Dismal passing rate”, paints a sobering picture of the Philippines’ brains trust — perhaps an oxymoronic term to use considering that it is anything but. The Inquirer Editor in essence issues an indictment on the ability of the Philippines to sustainably implement good governance and,…

Development, Education

Filipinos’ ability to compete with other Southeast Asian countries hobbled by their dismal reading comprehension and listening skills

August 8, 2023August 8, 2023 benign0 25 Comments

At first it seems baffling that the Philippines continues to suffer the same problems it had suffered over more than half a century after it was granted independence by the United States in 1946. The same inability to innovate, build industrial capacity that matches its enormous population, and move from labour-added-value up the food chain…

Development, Education, Religion, Society

#MeToo Movement erupting in UP Diliman “activist” community amid avalanche of sexual misconduct allegations

May 8, 2023May 8, 2023 benign0 No Comments

It seems that beyond Carl Ieuan Uba, a former member of the University of the Philippines (UP) Student Council (USC) and who served under the UP Diliman campus organisation Student Alliance for the Advancement of Democratic Rights in UP (STAND UP), recently called out as an alleged sex offender by a comrade, there are many…

Crime, Education, Society

Militant STAND UP “activist” and former USC Councilor Carl Ieuan Uba in hot water over allegations of sexual misconduct!

May 6, 2023May 7, 2023 benign0 No Comments

Social media is a a abuzz over a certain Carl Ieuan Uba who was councilor in the University of the Philippines (UP) Student Council (USC) over the school year 2021 to 2022. It seems Uba was a respected member of the cadre of communist “activists” that infest UP campuses as evident in this tweet from…

Crime, Education, Politics

The administration of the University of the Philippines is NOT a democracy

April 6, 2023 benign0 2 Comments

In her Inquirer piece “UP Diliman’s top-down leadership” today, columnist Anna Cristina Tuazon laments how “outside observers” are wont to “dismiss” the “passionate, sometimes chaotic expressions of [University of the Philippines (UP)] Diliman students, faculty, and staff” as “disrespectful behavior (or worse, to Red-tag them)”. She then goes on to suggest that members of this…

Education, Media

UP Diliman “activists” who destroyed university property should be EXPELLED

April 4, 2023April 4, 2023 benign0 15 Comments

Want to be a true rules-based society? Then it is clear what should be done to those students of the University of the Philippines (UP) who, while protesting (or, rather, throwing a really bad temper tantrum) over the decision of the UP Board of Regents (BOR) to select UP College of Law dean Edgardo Carlo…

Crime, Education

Is there still hope of turning the Tagalog dialect into a modern intellectual medium of communication?

March 28, 2023 benign0 16 Comments

Back in the old days, televised news reporting used to be mostly done in English. The EDSA “revolution” changed all that. Practically overnight, Tagalog news shows such as pioneer shock “news” caster Noli de Castro’s TV Patrol turned what was once a public service into mass entertainment. Key to this was the pivoting of telejournalism…

Culture, Development, Education

Libellous allegations of “plagiarism” vs GRP tweeted by @znsuzara (a.k.a. Budget Babe) illustrate the dishonesty of the Yellowtards

March 23, 2023March 23, 2023 benign0 No Comments

At Get Real Post (GRP), we put in reasonable effort to ensure the content we publish is of the highest possible standard. This, of course, does not stop our detractors from dismissing it as a “fake news site” (bizarre, considering GRP is not and has never claimed to be a news site). Even more notable…

Crime, Education, Tech Talk