PAGBABAGO Those of us who continue to monitor the country’s performance in global surveys on competitiveness, education, media freedom, environment which are deemed critical in assessing the health of the country, will be dismayed by outcomes showing that the Philippines had slipped several...
PAGBABAGO The Digital News Report 2023, an annual survey by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, has just been released according to Yvonne T. Chua, professor at the University of the Philippines who authored the Philippine country study. As in the past, it presents a bleak picture...
PAGBABAGO There is an increasing awareness today about the role of architecture – that it is more than just building and designing, and that it has a social task. This socially conscious task, among others, is creating awareness of people’s needs and mobilizing the latter to come up with...
PAGBABAGO I start this piece with thoughts of needed caution and watchfulness by every Filipino citizen. The big news this week was the approval by the joint congressional committee of the Maharlika Investment Fund or Sovereign Wealth Fund, which was introduced as a bill six months ago. With 279-6...
PAGBABAGO I have just completed the manuscript for my autobiography. When I started writing it last October, it was in the form of memoirs, a selection of memories in my life journey. But I started covering more events chronologically so someone suggested I should describe it as such. Many of...
PAGBABAGO After the several encounters between the Chinese maritime vessels and our own Philippine Coast Guard ships in the West Philippine Sea, former Philippine Ambassador to the US Jose L. Cuisia Jr. urges our government to bring the reports on the recent skirmishes to the UN. And to gather...
PAGBABAGO According to the Second Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM II), its primary goal is to implement the 1987 Constitution’s mandate to provide a “policy environment” of strengthening academic freedom,” and thus, higher education should have less regulation. Thus, it...
PAGBABAGO When the international community celebrates World Press Freedom Day (WPD) on May 3, it will be facing rising conflict and violence, threats to health and the environment, as well as continuing disinformation and misinformation. Adding to these challenges is the growing inequality between...
PAGBABAGO April is Filipino Food Month. And we remember among others, Senate President Pro Tempore Loren Legarda’s commitment in pursuing our rich culinary heritage when last year, she introduced Senate Bill 244 or the Philippine Culinary Heritage Act which is geared towards cultivating and...
PAGBABAGO “Pandemic generation” is a term used by the recent Commission on Human Rights (CHR) report to refer to the “first wave of students” who had gone through pandemic learning. Today, in our post-pandemic normal, the graduates are finding it difficult to land jobs. They ...
PAGBABAGO Two legislative acts – EDCOM II or the Second Congressional Commission in Education, and the Creative Industry Development Act which became law in May 2022, are of great significance to the future of the country. They demand priority attention from the public which should monitor...
PAGBABAGO The issue is whether to accept the proposal of the Department of Education which is to abandon the teaching of MTB-MLE or the Mother Tongue in Grades 1-3 and to merely adopt it as a medium of instruction. Or to continue with both as proposed by E-Net, a Civil Society Network for Education...
