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Category: Education

Concluding Remarks for CONTEND Annual Conference 2022: Martial Law @ 50

[These are the concluding remarks I gave as Secretary General of the Congress of Teachers/Educators for Nationalism and Democracy (CONTEND) … More

Postcolonial and transformative education in the University of the Philippines

This chapter looks at contemporary union, teachers organizations and student struggles in the University of the Philippines to shed light … More

Behind UP’s curricular reforms

[This commentary was originally published by the Philippine Daily Inquirer on April 12, 2017.] Last March 20, the University of … More

Educating millennials on martial law

[This commentary was originally published by the Philippine Daily Inquirer on October 5, 2016.] Of late, members of the younger … More

Education, Higher Education, Martial Law, Neoliberalism, Philippines, Politics

Continuing miseducation

IT APPEARS that another student was forced to death by the outrageously high cost of education in the Philippines. Last … More

Education, Internationalization, Jessiven Lagatic, K-12, Kristel Tejada, Miseducation, Neoliberal, Neoliberalism, Renato Constantino

Lumad schools in Mindanao threatened by military, closed down by DepEd

“Those children should be in school.” This is what Department of Social Welfare and Development Secretary Dinky Soliman said in … More

Education, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Lumads, Militarization, Mindanao, Schools

UP Visayas’ first summa cum laude is a student activist

BS Applied Mathematics student Raoul Daniel A. Manuel is the first ever summa cum laude of the University of the … More

Raoul Manuel Daniel, Student Activism, Summa Cum Laude, University of the Philippines Visayas

UP student with near-perfect grades exhorts fellow graduates to a life of service to the nation

University of the Philippines Diliman Summa Cum Laude Tiffany Uy, who graduated BS Biology with a near-perfect grade from the … More

Summa Cum Laude, Tiffany Uy, University of the Philippines

Why we need to stop Aquino’s K-12

Note: What follows is a statement by Anakbayan National Chairperson Vencer Crisostomo. The clamor to junk the Aquino regime’s K-12 … More

Education, K12, Neocolonial Education, Neoliberal Reforms, Philippine Education, US Imperialism

Students of Catholic university face expulsion for supporting workers

This was written for Philippine Online Chronicles. While Pope Francis is condemning the evils of capitalist exploitation and encouraging the … More

Alem Garcia, Campus Repression, Cebu, Fr. Emmanuel Sarabia, Justin Gular, Katleen Abugan, Ken Ecarma, Society of the Divine Word, STAND-USC, Students Rights, University of San Carlos

In Tiempos Muertos: Why moving class opening to August is disastrous

The seasons are not natural. There are two seasons, The milling season and the off-season, one wet With grease and … More

Academic Calendar, Academic Shift, ASEAN, Philippine Education

A Day of Protest against Pork Barrel in Iloilo

I wrote this article for the Philippine Online Chronicles. Iloilo City, Philippines – The effigy of a yellow pig lies … More

Aquino, Iloilo, Iloilo Protest, Noynoy Aquino, Philippine Politics, Politics, Pork Barrel, Student Protest

Iskolar than what? UP Scholarship as Consumer Brand Name

I wrote this commentary for Philippine Online Chronicles. Iskolar than what? This is the usual reaction to the tagline printed … More

Consumerism, Individualism, Iskolar Than You, University of the Philippines, UP

Higher (Cost of) Education in Western Visayas

I wrote this article for Philippine Online Chronicles. With over two hundred thousand college level students returning to class this … More

Education, Iloilo, Panay, Philippine Education, Students, Western Visayas, Youth

Rolling in the Deep: ACT and the Cebu City scholarship scandal

I wrote this article for the Philippine Online Chronicles. “We could have had it all / Rolling in the deep … More

ACT Cebu, Adele, Asian College of Technology, Bebot Abellanosa, Cebu City Scholarship Program, Rolling in the Deep

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