Tag: public education

To Parents and Educators: Support our kids and help them get back on track!

September 7, 2022 Moduli No Comments

Educator wife recently shared the woes that they encountered in a school where she is currently the academic consultant, in connection to the face-to-face (F2F) transition. Upon asking the faculty for encountered difficulties in the first two weeks, some provided the following feedback: There are grade 6 pupils who could not resolve a simple 2×3….

Education

Pandemic impact on today’s youth demands making education a top election issue

July 28, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 1 Comment

How to integrate pedagogy with technology was the challenge we faced during my short stint at a local city university from 2019-2020. Even before the pandemic, the education sector was being disrupted by Education 4.0, as a response to Industry 4.0, or the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Public and private educational institutions have been facing challenges…

Education

Politicians genuinely concerned about the future of the Philippines will make EDUCATION a top election issue

July 5, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 2 Comments

PhilSTAR columnist Boo Chanco in his piece today laments “our compromised future” writing how a “fast-growing young population not equipped with the skills to help themselves and the economy to move forward faster” making for a “grim” future considering that “it will take more than two or three presidencies to overhaul DepEd and get our…

Education

Manny Pacquiao’s cheap talk on government corruption won’t solve it

July 4, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 12 Comments

I waited for Senator Manny”Pac-Man” Pacquiao’s exposé on corruption in various government agencies before writing about what I experienced about corruption in government at the level of a public educational institution. Corrupt government employees are socio-psychopaths. Most of them have a distorted sense of values. They’re engaged in corrupt practices but like to think they’re…

Crime, Government

Will Ateneo- or UP-standard education make Filipinos a more progressive people? Think again.

March 11, 2021 benign0 24 Comments

The idea that substandard education is the reason why Filipinos are not progressing as a people is starting to wear thin. Granted, of course, there is a massive investment gap that keeps the Philippines’ public education system (within which the vast majority of Filipinos are educated) decrepit and practically ineffective at churning out smarter people….

Education, Tech Talk

Should expensive private schools like the Ateneo de Manila and De La Salle be banned?

May 23, 2018 benign0 16 Comments

A report on the work needed to reform Malaysian state services now that a peaceful change of leadership had transpired provides some insight on the growing private school industry in southeast Asia. For the average outsider, the reliance of a society’s elite on private schools to educate their youth is regarded to be not normal… There is also…

Education, Society

Higher education for poor Filipinos: Two Cents from a ‘Filipino Traitor’

April 22, 2013December 17, 2016 Hector Gamboa 52 Comments

My last article got me accused of being too anti-Filipino for my stand against giving poor Filipinos the opportunity to get a university degree. I was told that to deny the poor Filipinos the same opportunity that I had, to get to where I am in life right now, is not only cruel but also…

Education

Education Freebies for the Poor? What the Fudge?!

April 2, 2013December 17, 2016 Hector Gamboa 86 Comments

First of all I would like to request my readers to look at this funny video below from the show Bubble Gang. Funny, huh? But let’s think about a certain angle for a moment. Suppose that you are a student in a public school and you (or your parents) saved enough money to pay for…

Education, Government