Category: Education

How Filipino women can strongly contribute to building a more intelligent Philippines

January 17, 2014 Kate Natividad 100 Comments

The Net is awash lately with lots of lament about the sad state of intellectualism in Philippine society. Most recent is the stuff about the way Pinoys lionize new X Factor celeb and erstwhile caregiver Rose Fostanes. Like, is there nothing more to the Philippines than reality TV stars and beauty pageant winners? Then there…

Culture, Development, Education, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Filipino labour force not up to par: Philippines ready to host foreign workers

January 15, 2014January 15, 2014 benign0 65 Comments

The Philippines’ Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is reportedly considering opening the country to foreign workers. A list of occupations for which there is a “shortage” of local people qualified to fill has been released by the DOLE… Architect Chemical Engineer Chemist Environmental Planner Fisheries Technologist Geologist – Geophysicist, petrogeochemist, petrophysicist, micropaleontologist, engineering geologist…

Development, Economy, Education, Lifestyle

Why I think Lourd de Veyra’s ‘open letter’ to Vic Sotto is pointless

January 8, 2014January 8, 2014 Kate Natividad 77 Comments

Indeed, Lourd de Veyra “has a few things to say” to Vic Sotto. And he laid them all out in his open letter addressed to the star which was published on Spot.ph. My first impression about Lourd’s open letter was that it was a very thoughtful lament on the wasted opportunity in the huge influence…

Culture, Education, Glitz and Glamour, Government, Media, Society

Positivity in times of disaster is overrated

November 21, 2013November 21, 2013 Kate Natividad 24 Comments

But of course it comes across as being “negative” when we talk about just how horrific a disaster Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) brought upon the Philippines. It is being “negative” when one points out how decades of neglect, corruption, and idiocy had laid layers and layers of the groundwork that turned much of the Philippine archipelago…

Civics, Culture, Education, Society

Much-needed crisis leadership: the United Nations action plan for Typhoon Yolanda victims

November 14, 2013December 4, 2013 benign0 44 Comments

Within several days, a coherent picture of the situation in the areas devastated by Typhoon Yolanda (international code name: Haiyan) which hit the Philippines on the 8th November 2013 has been produced by an international team of crisis management experts. The Situation Report published on the 13th November 2013 by the UN Office for the…

Civics, Development, Education, Environment, Government

How Serious is the Philippines’ Educational Crisis?

November 6, 2013 Richard Javad Heydarian 9 Comments

Lately, the Philippines has — for a number of good reasons — enjoyed the limelight, emerging as an economic bright spot in Asia. Receiving a stamp of approval from the world’s leading rating agencies, namely Fitch, S&P, and Moody’s, the country stands — in label — as a full-fledged investment-grade economy. This, at least theoretically, means…

Development, Education

Presidential sister Pinky Aquino indoctrinates kindergarten kids on the art of Noynoying

November 5, 2013 benign0 38 Comments

This counts as one whopper of a WTF? statement coming from a presidential sister other than Kris Aquino. One of today’s Inquirer headlines screams: President’s sister Pinky asks kinder pupils to pray for her brother! “Who is our brother again? You’re right, it’s Noynoy. Please pray for him because he is confronting so many problems…

Civics, Education

Three fundamental principles about the pork barrel that ordinary Filipinos will NEVER understand

October 25, 2013 benign0 8 Comments

So the Philippine intelligentsia are scratching their heads; baffled as to why Philippine President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III remains “popular” despite outrage over pork barrel thievery rippling across their society. Wonder no more! It’s always been obvious that it is Filipinos “resilience” that is at work here. Filipinos, after all, are renowned for their…

Crime, Education, Government, Politics

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Gabsboy
on Why are Filipinos so irrevocably corrupt?
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Blank
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benign0
on Blocking Grok and other AI chat apps in the Philippines is a good idea
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Gabsboy
on Blocking Grok and other AI chat apps in the Philippines is a good idea
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Gabsboy
on “Press freedom” activists and leftist groups up in arms over conviction of commie “journalist” Frenchie Mae Cumpio on charges of terrorist financing
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Gabsboy
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Had Western academia (and Filipino academia by extension, since the
benign0
on Why are Filipinos so irrevocably corrupt?
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