The World Bank apologizes
"Inadvertence? An oversight? No, sir. " It is just as well that the World Bank, the Washington D.C. based ...
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Forget your college diploma
"Filipinos are ill-prepared to capture those jobs, thanks to our diploma mills." In the 2018 tests conducted by the ...
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Overseas Filipinos can adopt schools
The recent report by the 2018 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that showed the Philippines scored lowest among ...
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We are at the bottom
"There was a time when our country was one of the leaders of the pack in Asia." Out of 79 ...
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Crisis and Opportunities
"The results showed a disheartening and dismal failure." Having the first public school system in Southeast Asia, Filipinos ...
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The Education We Need
"This is a real, honest-to-goodness wake up call." Those who are criticizing the results of the Programme for ...
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Lawmaker wants to remove some subjects from kinder to Grade 3 students
Pasig City Rep. Roman Romulo wants to ease the kindergarten to Grade 3 pupils with overloaded subjects to enable them ...
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.