After 10 years, K-12 doesn’t look A-1
If we’re to believe the World Bank, Philippine education is in serious crisis. That’s because one in every four Grade ...
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Rody accepts World Bank apology, demands update
President Rodrigo Duterte has accepted the apology of the World Bank after its premature publication of a report on Filipino ...
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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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Gatchalian: Beef up anti-cyberbullying measures
With a few days to go before the formal opening of classes, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Thursday called for a ...
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Inclusive quality education
"We need to create an environment that promotes learning." One of the key ingredients to national development is ...
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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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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.