Across the years our educational system has been rocked by controversies which have remained unabated up to this day. Amidst the welter of issues, two of them have managed to stand out in importance:qualityandrelevance. The major difficulty in education in the Philippines is the short-sighted po...
"Educational institutions, other than those established by religious groups and mission boards, shall be owned solely by citizens of the Philippines or corporations or associations at least sixty per centum of the capital of which is owned by such citizens. The Congress may, however, require ...
Education, Labor Market, and Development: A Review of the Trends and Issues in the Philippines for the Past 25 Years This paper comprehensively reviews the developments in the education and labor markets in the Philippines in the past 25 years. It highlights the trends on......
Philippines Yuto Kitamura, University of Tokyo, Japan Colin Power, University of Queensland, Australia Konai Helu Thaman, University of the South Pacific, Fiji Advisory Board: Mark Bray, UNESCO Chair, Comparative Education Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong, China Yin Cheong Cheng, The ...
HIV/AIDS and vulnerability, education and participation: Issues of rights, responses and children in or out of school–A growing divide in China The rapid changes in China over the past two decades, particularly the spectacular economic growth with its visible impact in city skylines, urban road...
History Historical Perspective of the Philippine Educational System Education in the Philippines has undergone several stages of development from the pre-Spanish times to the present. In meeting the needs of the society‚ education serves as focus of emphases/priorities of t...
EnablingConsumerandEntrepreneurial LiteracyinSubsistenceMarketplaces EDUCATIONINTHEASIA-PACIFICREGION: ISSUES,CONCERNSANDPROSPECTS Volume12 SeriesEditors-in-Chief: DrRupertMaclean,UNESCO-UNEVOCInternationalCentreforEducation,Bonn;and RyoWatanabe,NationalInstituteforEducationalPolicyResearch(NIER)ofJapan,Tokyo EditorialBoar...
English has become the second language of basic education in many countries and jurisdictions within the Asia Pacific region, and it is now second only to the countries’ respective national languages. It is also being introduced earlier and earlier into
This book describes challenges in the policy and practices of the various water sectors in the Philippines that have led to water conflicts. Such conflicts arise in the nature of rural-urban competition, trans-administrative boundary issues, and inconsistencies between customary and state rules, and ...
Issues of Bilingual Education in the Caribbean: The Cases of Haiti, and Trinidad and Tobago The language situations in the Caribbean have long posed challenges for language education and, despite a number of enlightened proposals for bilingual edu... Youssef,Valerie - 《International Journal of ...