The Department of Education (DepEd) in the Philippines is planning to adopt the school calendar of the SUCs (State Universities and Colleges). This would mean that the opening of every school year to all DepEd schools will start on the first day of August and...
February is the month of love. It is a time for Valentine’s Day and a time for remembering love. It is also a time to put emphasis on the importance of love in our lives. For all the over-romanticizing and blatant commercialism during the love month,...
Many of my colleagues in local media will agree with me that the cancellation of Rappler’s registration to operate by Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is not an attack to press freedom. No, it is not an attack to press freedom. Rather, it is a...
Every Filipino wastes at least two tablespoons of rice per day and that is according to a survey conducted by National Food Authority in 2013. If we have to remember the year 2013 was declared by then president Noynoy Aquino as “The National Year of...
Majority of the faculty members in the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) were jubilant upon learning of Patricia Licuanan’s resignation from Commission on Higher Education (CHED) as Chairperson on January 15, 2017 and of which was accepted by President Duterte. Licuanan was an appointee of former President...
What is the difference between a resolution and a wish? Mr. Webster defines resolution as a firm decision to do or not to do something while the same Mr. Webster defines wish as a desire or hope for something to happen or something to be...
This novelty type of Christmas song entitled “All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth” was the very first Christmas song that I could sing with merriment especially that I heard it the first time when I was in Grade 1 with a...
This is not about the 2002 Star Cinema movie entitled Nine Mornings starred by Piolo Pascual and Donita Rose. This is not about the Nine Mornings of a Vincentian festivity either. Rather, nine-mornings is the slang expression for simbang gabi or misa de gallo. In my...
It is the thesis season in our AB-English Language program. Graduating students are scrambling for thesis-defense schedules. And it is the practice that before the thesis-defense starts someone will always say a short prayer before the panel member. They can pray in their own language...
Should college education in the Philippines be outcome-based? I believe that to some extent we are already into OBE or Outcomes-Based Education especially in the technical courses. Some college educators argue that OBE is already practiced in the form of competency-based learning and performance-based standard. When...
