Category: Education

An entire generation of young Filipinos are growing up to be liabilities

June 29, 2024 benign0 7 Comments

Certain “activists” take exception to a country’s people being referred to as “capital” to “invest in” in order to “get returns from”. This is in reference to the recently-published World Bank Philippines Human Capital Review report where some pretty damning facts about the collective ability of the Filipino people to compete in a rapidly-evolving world…

Development, Education

50% of Filipinos stunted at childhood in the 1980s could be why the Philippines is so intellectually-bankrupt today!

June 25, 2024 benign0 3 Comments

For many of the world’s richest — or even emerging — economies, the biggest threat to continued prosperity is a rapidly aging and, in the worst cases, declining populations. The effect of wealth and better education on fertility has long been known. As people get better-educated, enjoy a greater variety of lifestyle options, and gain…

Development, Economy, Education

The Philippines cannot progress without an intelligent civil service

June 17, 2024 benign0 13 Comments

Nothing is more confronting than statistical facts. Today’s Inquirer op-ed, “Dismal passing rate”, paints a sobering picture of the Philippines’ brains trust — perhaps an oxymoronic term to use considering that it is anything but. The Inquirer Editor in essence issues an indictment on the ability of the Philippines to sustainably implement good governance and,…

Development, Education

Filipinos’ ability to compete with other Southeast Asian countries hobbled by their dismal reading comprehension and listening skills

August 8, 2023August 8, 2023 benign0 25 Comments

At first it seems baffling that the Philippines continues to suffer the same problems it had suffered over more than half a century after it was granted independence by the United States in 1946. The same inability to innovate, build industrial capacity that matches its enormous population, and move from labour-added-value up the food chain…

Development, Education, Religion, Society

#MeToo Movement erupting in UP Diliman “activist” community amid avalanche of sexual misconduct allegations

May 8, 2023May 8, 2023 benign0 No Comments

It seems that beyond Carl Ieuan Uba, a former member of the University of the Philippines (UP) Student Council (USC) and who served under the UP Diliman campus organisation Student Alliance for the Advancement of Democratic Rights in UP (STAND UP), recently called out as an alleged sex offender by a comrade, there are many…

Crime, Education, Society

Militant STAND UP “activist” and former USC Councilor Carl Ieuan Uba in hot water over allegations of sexual misconduct!

May 6, 2023May 7, 2023 benign0 No Comments

Social media is a a abuzz over a certain Carl Ieuan Uba who was councilor in the University of the Philippines (UP) Student Council (USC) over the school year 2021 to 2022. It seems Uba was a respected member of the cadre of communist “activists” that infest UP campuses as evident in this tweet from…

Crime, Education, Politics

The administration of the University of the Philippines is NOT a democracy

April 6, 2023 benign0 2 Comments

In her Inquirer piece “UP Diliman’s top-down leadership” today, columnist Anna Cristina Tuazon laments how “outside observers” are wont to “dismiss” the “passionate, sometimes chaotic expressions of [University of the Philippines (UP)] Diliman students, faculty, and staff” as “disrespectful behavior (or worse, to Red-tag them)”. She then goes on to suggest that members of this…

Education, Media

UP Diliman “activists” who destroyed university property should be EXPELLED

April 4, 2023April 4, 2023 benign0 15 Comments

Want to be a true rules-based society? Then it is clear what should be done to those students of the University of the Philippines (UP) who, while protesting (or, rather, throwing a really bad temper tantrum) over the decision of the UP Board of Regents (BOR) to select UP College of Law dean Edgardo Carlo…

Crime, Education