Focus on basic education

Our educational system needs a revamp and fixing it by adding another year to college education is not the way to go. Writing as a person who has taught college freshman courses, I can readily tell that the problem is not with college education but with the 10 years...

Benchmarking the graduate

The semester’s nearly done and many seniors are just looking forward to graduation. And as it’s always been, graduations are a source of academic and political conflict. I probably wouldn’t ride on the sudden surge of my good friend Ma’am...

With great power…

…comes great chances of messing things up. Never mind if I’m actually a rookie but I sat as a panel member for the defense of three undergraduate theses done by seniors. And I’d have to say it really feels different being on the other side of the...

How come H&D has a .edu.ph?

I met my old boss yesterday just to talk a few things about the state of e-learning here in the Philippines since I’m exploring it as a possible study to do over the next year. While in my old office, I was made aware of this new learning system provider. I was...

UP or Ateneo revisited

I’m not even including La Salle here. Hehehe… Evil me. Anyway, I’m quite in a quandary here whether I have to reconsider my views. Well, you may think that since I am affiliated with UP, I will be in full support of the University. Well, quite...