By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com The country’s urban poor have one more reason to consider President Benigno S. Aquino III an enemy of the poor: he vetoed a provision inserted by the House of Representatives into the 2012 national budget that would have forced the government to put a limit on borrowing funds from…
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The sorry state of education
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Shortages continue to plague the country’s education system despite President Benigno Aquino III’s campaign and inaugural promises that his administration would provide quality education for the Filipino people.
Polytechnic University of the Philippines, condemned to penury
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
PUP remains as one of the last few hopes for children of poor families to gain higher education. But it is slowly being dashed as the PUP struggles with extreme shortages, dilapidated facilities and the pressure to increase tuition and other fees to survive.
Passion for teaching
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – John Clifford Sibayan, 19, is following the footsteps of his mother who is a teacher in a public school in Pampanga. “There is nothing like teaching,” Clifford said during an interview. They do not only teach the students their lessons, for a public school teacher like Clifford’s…
Philippine Normal University, trying to make do with so little
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
The Philippine Normal University is supposedly another option. But more than this, the state of PNU would definitely impact on the state of basic education in the country. An overwhelming majority of teachers, especially in the public school system are trained at PNU, and the quality of graduates it produces would reflect on the state of the country’s public school system. While the PNU gasps for dear life, so would the whole public school system.
2012 budget is anti-poor – progressive solons
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Progressive partylist groups in the House of Representatives voted ‘no’ to the 2012 appropriations bill, saying that the national budget is “anti-poor” and that it reveals “government neglect and the absence of change.” “Mr. Speaker I cannot in my conscience vote in favor of a bill, which…
LTE: Make public school tuition affordable, not simply higher or lower
Letter to the Editor 14 October 2011 President Noynoy Aquino’s recent directive to state universities to raise tuition to cover funding gaps is a grave misunderstanding of public higher education. Quality education “at all levels” is a citizen’s right in the 1987 Philippine Constitution. When the law further mandated the State to take appropriate steps…
Tie AFP budget to human rights record, says ACT solon
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com A progressive lawmaker in the House of Representatives continue to fight for a pro-poor 2012 national budget by submitting amendments. Earlier this week, Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Representative Antonio L. Tinio submitted proposed amendments to House Bill 5023 or the General Appropriations Bill for Fiscal Year 2012 to…
Protest against 2012 budget dispersed, ralliers to file charges, intensify protests
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
“This PPP scheme for education and health will cost the taxpayers more because the government must guarantee the private sector partners’ return on investment.” – ACT Teachers Party Rep. Antonio Tinio
Proposed health budget for 2012, ‘inadequate, with wrong priorities’
By MARYA SALAMAT
In a study of the proposed 2012 health budget conducted by the Coalition for Health Budget Increase (CHBI), it found out that the increases in the health budget only “define the Aquino Health Agenda of privatization and commercialization of public health care which will further jeopardize the health of the people.”