Category: Education

Kudos to the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) for FINALLY junking Tagalog!

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Kudos to the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) for FINALLY junking Tagalog!

Long overdue! The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) memo directing the removal of Tagalog (a.k.a. “Filipino”) as a mandatory subject in the Philippines’ General Education Curriculum (GEC) effectively frees millions of Filipinos from wasting time on a dead-end field of learning. On implementation of the directive, the subject will be relegated to Grades 11 and…

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Culture, Education

Insulted much? Talaga lang huh!

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Insulted much? Talaga lang huh!

The viral issue at www.hongwrong.com smacks of cultural ignorance on the publisher and on the educational system disseminating it. We are at an Age where Diversity is being embraced by the enlightened and I could have easily snapped back with this highly suggested “Widow” edit : “I am Chinese and my government is Asia’s bully,…

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Culture, Development, Education, Government, Society

How idiopreneurship can stem the flow of talented people abandoning the Philippines

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How idiopreneurship can stem the flow of talented people abandoning the Philippines

Much has been said about how the appalling work conditions, low pay, and stifling congestion in the Philippines is driving away its most talented workers. But what seems to be the biggest put-off for the greatest Filipino minds is the intellectual bankruptcy that prevails in Philippine society. Much has also been said about technology being…

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Crime, Development, Education, Government, Media, Politics, Society, Technology

PAGASA mass exodus: Why are workers treated like crap in the Philippines?

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PAGASA mass exodus: Why are workers treated like crap in the Philippines?

Simple. Because there are so many of them. That’s a lesson in an Economics 101 course — the Law of Supply and Demand. When the enormous supply of a commodity dwarfs demand for it, the value of that commodity is crushed. Employers in the Philippines can treat their workers like crap, because they can. The…

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Development, Economy, Education, Government

Is depicting Filipinos as domestic helpers racist?

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Is depicting Filipinos as domestic helpers racist?

Apparently, quite a few Filipinos seem to think so. Given the highly hypersensitive nature of the Filipinos, it was only natural that they would react with rage to the screenshot below found in certain Hong Kong textbooks. The blog site Hongwrong.com couldn’t help but make a parody of such depiction of “racial harmony” as is…

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Culture, Development, Education, Lifestyle

What caused the 6-month delay in the release of funding for repair of schools destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan?

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What caused the 6-month delay in the release of funding for repair of schools destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan?

It’s always the same, year in and year out. The opening of the new school year in the Philippines never fails to make headline news. The figure now is twenty million. That’s the number of Filipino school kids who trooped to their classes today — a number just short of the population of Australia. Their…

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Development, Education, Government

The brutal business of implementing change in the Philippines

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The brutal business of implementing change in the Philippines

“In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act” – George Orwell Improving systems and changing cultures invariably starts with looking under the covers, and with brutal honesty sometimes. Self-delusion doesn’t — shouldn’t — feature in corporate life, nor should it in national governance. Would you prefer your taxes be…

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Culture, Development, Education, Government, Politics, Society

Can Senator Franklin Drilon survive Sandra Cam’s version of the Napoles List?

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Can Senator Franklin Drilon survive Sandra Cam’s version of the Napoles List?

Senate President Franklin Drilon may have escaped scrutiny after his seemingly baffling ommission from the the respective versions of the Napoles List bandied by President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III, Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Leila De Lima, and former Senator and Philippine National Police Chief Panfilo ‘Ping’ Lacson, but he apparently did not escape…

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Crime, Education, Government, Politics