Contemporary concerns in education
Reading
Last weekās 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 āno permit, no examā policy in private schools. I am sure...
Raising educational standards
NEIL HONEYMAN
LAST weekendās 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 āDepEd eyesā¦ā 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 banksā customers. For...
Tourism
LAST weekās 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...
Education (and other) challenges
THE GOVERNMENT is proposing a budget of P5.768 trillion for 2024. It is good that there will be plenty of time to debate whether...
Anniversaries
TIANANMEN Square ā a square in the center of Beijing. It is an enormous public open space. I write this on Sunday 4 June.
This...
OTOP
MANY years ago (2008), a revered family member was hired by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). His initial assignment was to provide...