When we talk of upskilling business executives, we are usually referring to technical skills like those required in the functional areas of sales and marketing, finance, production, information technology, and people management. In my experience as a professor in schools of business here and abroad...
As formal tertiary education is experiencing a crisis because of its historical inability to produce among its graduates the knowledge and skills actually demanded by the real world of business and industry, some highly innovative entrepreneurs engaged in the education sector are introducing new...
Another upskilling program for Philippine management personnel introduced by the Center for Research and Communication (CRC) in the late 1960s and early 1970s was the Industrial Economics Program (IEP). When Dr. Jess Estanislao, Founder of CRC, decided to leave the Program Implementation Agency...
The experience of upskilling, reskilling, and retooling CRC with industrial and business economists encouraged Jess Estanislao and those of us who teamed up with him to identify other professional manpower gaps that existed in the late 1960s and the decade of the 1970s. Since we were all interested...
Because higher and professional education in the Philippines for decades has focused on college degree-oriented programs, resulting in what I have called the cultural disease of "diplomitis," the recent passing of the EBET Law gives the impression that enterprise-based education and training is...
Human resource development in the Philippines is undergoing a veritable revolution. The traditional approach to preparing the youth for employment through formal education in colleges, universities, or technical schools—normally leading to some academic degree and ordinarily accomplished through...
It is easy to give the oft-repeated advice to teach poor people how to fish rather than giving them fish. As anyone who has been involved in development work in poor countries knows, this is very reasonable and wise advice to follow in the long run. "Teaching" always takes some time, however. As the...
Those who are trying to sneak into our society immoral practices regarding sex by referring to "international standards" set by such woke-obsessed organizations like the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Planned Parenthood Federation spread the false news that so-called...
The year 2024 saw the Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to two economists, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson (along with their colleague Simon Johnson), who wrote a widely read book by development economists and political scientists entitled "Why Nations Fail." The attention given to their...
Another relevant social principle of the Church concerning current issues faced by Philippine political leaders at the national, regional, and local levels is the universal destination of goods. The Pope writes: "God meant the goods of the earth for all. Private property is a right, but its use...
The Philippines is touted by international organizations such as the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, not to mention private think tanks and banks, as one of the fastest-growing economies in the Indo-Pacific region, together with India and Vietnam. The harsh reality, however, as President...
As a professional educator teaching then at the Center for Research and Communication, I was asked in 1976 by a group of parents to help them implement the dictum of St. Josemaria Escriva, Founder of Opus Dei (who had passed away just a year before in Rome), "Parents first, teachers, second and...
