Archive for the ‘Education’ Category

Ang pangmatagalan na salot ng raket nina Mary Ann Maslog sa textbooks

Nagkataon naman na school opening ngayon dito sa Pilipinas at nahuli itong si Mary Ann Maslog na nasangkot noon sa anomalya sa textbooks sa public schools. Tamang-tamang paala-ala sa taumbayan ang malaking perwisyo ng kurakukutan sa textbook sa edukasyon ng mga Pilipinong mag-aaral at sa hinaharap ng bansa. Ni-report ng VERA Files noong Biyernes na [...]

June 20, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Education  15 Comments

Pinay in textbook scam nabbed in the US

by VERA Files Mary Ann Maslog, the woman who delivered a P3-million bribe in Malacanang 11 years ago in connection with a P200-million textbook contract and was on the run for a string of swindling cases in the Philippines and the United States, has finally been arrested. A newspaper in the state of Virginia reported [...]

June 19, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Education, Vera Files  17 Comments

Pinay in textbook scam wanted in the US for swindling

by VERA Files The woman who shook the nation by delivering P3 million in bribes to Malacañang 11 years ago is wanted in the United States for swindling and is believed to be in hiding in the Philippines. Former textbook agent Mary Ann T. Maslog, who tried bribing officials of the Department of Budget and [...]

June 17, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Education, Vera Files  39 Comments

CenterLaw’s Bagares wins fellowship to France

Before Romel Bagares became a lawyer, he was a journalist, covering “Defense” for the Philippine Star. As a lawyer, he was in the forefront in giving support to the families of the victims of the Maguindanao massacre, a number of them his friends. At the CenterLaw, where he is the executive director, he handles the [...]

June 6, 2010   Posted in: Education, Human Rights  9 Comments

MVP’s embarrassing moment

While the Christian world was recollecting the martyrdom of Jesus Christ, telecommunications super executive Manuel V. Pangilinan was experiencing his own calvary. He admitted to having committed plagiarism. Plagiarism is defined in online dictionaries as “to commit literary theft: present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.” If it [...]

April 5, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Education  38 Comments

New nursing schools open despite ban (two parts)

by Andrew Jonathan Bagaoisan and Mark Angelo Ching VERA Files Nursing schools all over the country will be opening their doors this week to thousands of students with the great white cap dream—getting a nursing degree, working in a hospital abroad and earning a comfortable living. But not all these schools are qualified to offer [...]

June 15, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: Education, Vera Files  26 Comments

Taxing the future

Update: DOF suspends Order 17-09. In my appearance in Boy Abunda’s “Private Conversations” many years ago, I was asked what’s my idea of being rich, and I replied, “just to have enough money in my wallet to be able to buy a good book I want when I see one.” I said that because in [...]

May 25, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Education, Malaya  60 Comments

The ‘puzzle’ that is Philippine education: Still in crisis after all these years

by Jennifer Santiago VERA Files High dropout rates. Low pupil performance. Poor teacher quality. Inappropriate language of learning. Irrelevant textbooks. Excessive centralization. Inadequate financial resources. This is how Yale University professor George Counts described the Philippine educational system in 1925, when he did a study on the performance of the country’s school system. More than [...]

May 21, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Education  42 Comments

Magpalamig muna

Kung hindi garapal, tanga. Ito ang impresyon na nakukuha ko ng mga opisyal ng pamahalaan habang pinapanood ko ang hearing tungkol sa Legacy firms ng Senate Committee on Trade and Commerce sa pamumuno ni Sen. Mar Roxas. Dahil sa recess na, tatlong senador lang ang dumalo ngunit maayos ang hearing. Kasama ni Roxas sa pagtatanong [...]

March 10, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Education, Governance  59 Comments

Patuloy ang pagbobobo ng Pilipino

Pagkatapos ng labin-dalawang taon na pakikilaban para maituwid ang mga mali sa textbooks na ginagamit ng ating mga kabataan, sabi ni Antonio Calipjo-Go,pagod at hihinto na siya. Nakakalungkot ngunit hindi ko masisisi si Go. Kaya, sa mga magulang na hindi man lamang umimik at hindi sumuporta kay Go, magtiis na lang kayo kung sa halip [...]

December 4, 2008  Tags: ,   Posted in: Education, Web Links  73 Comments