This CyberEducation Project is wrapped in so much secrecy and mystery. Considering its scale and magnitude and its gargantuan project cost, to be shouldered by our already burdened Filipino taxpayers, many pertinent details remain unknown, raising very disturbing questions on the implementation, actual outcome and even motive of the project. – Rep. Teddy Casino What [...]
Students are burdened with budget cuts, yearly increases in tuition rates, and repressive policies of government and school administrations. For the school year 2006-2007, 27.31 percent or 390 private higher education institutions (HEI) have increased their tuition according to the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd). The table below shows the increase of tuition since the [...]
Sa loob ng halos dalawang dekada nang pagsasakatuparan ng Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), malinaw sa masang magsasaka na isa lamang itong huwad na programa sa reporma sa lupa. Malaking panloloko ang deklaradong layunin at mga sinasabing tagumpay nito. Nananatili hanggang ngayon ang malawakang problema ng kawalan ng lupa ng nakararaming magsasaka.
After the resounding success of the first ever Bloggers’ Kapihan 1.0: Blogging Beyond the Basics, the BK crew once again comes around for yet another virtual-becomes-real venture.The BK Crew presents Bloggers’ Kapihan 2.0: Blog Ed 101. This time around, let us tackle the importance of blogging in learning, learning in blogging and blogging as a [...]
The decreasing number of students that enroll in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program has prompted renewed efforts to once again make it mandatory. House Bill 309, seeking to repeal Republic Act 9163 (NSTP Act of 2001), has been filed before the House Committee on National Defense by Rep. Eduardo Gullas of Cebu — [...]
As Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) Commissioner Romulo Neri speaks today at the Senate inquiry on the controversial ZTE deal, members of the militant League of Filipino Students wrote “speak up” on a bulletin board where his picture was posted in UP Diliman in a symbolic gesture of their appeal to the education czar. Neri, [...]