Back to school
AN EXCELLENT article by Isy Faingold, the chief of education of the United Nations gives much food for thought. He admits to there being...
School buildings
CONSTITUTIONALLY, the State has the responsibility to “establish and maintain a system of free public education in the elementary and high school levels. Without...
Education and the Constitution
“EDUCATION is intertwined with national security,” so sayeth Vice President and Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Sara Duterte.
But national security is not the exclusive...
Contemporary concerns in education
Reading
Last week’s announcement that college students who volunteer as either Grade 1 reading tutors or as youth development workers can earn P570 a day...
Miscellany
No permit, no exam
Congress has proposed a bill that would reportedly prohibit the ‘no permit, no exam’ policy in private schools. I am sure...
Raising educational standards
NEIL HONEYMAN
LAST weekend’s PN featured Gihun Ng Yoo who recently won a silver medal at the World Mathematics Invitational (WMI) Final Round 2023 at...
The education imbroglio
NEIL HONEYMAN
NATIONAL broadsheets are festooned with headlines saying “DepEd eyes…” This means that a mid-level civil servant has given a speculative seminar about an...
Bancassurance
BANCASSURANCE is the concept of selling life insurance products through the connections that insurance companies have with banks and therefore the banks’ customers. For...
Tourism
LAST week’s news that the Philippines received 2.67 million tourists from overseas in the first six months of the year is very much welcomed....
Potpourri
AFGHANISTAN
It is reported that the US has asked a substantial number of Afghans to stay temporarily in the Philippines while their US immigration visas...