Education

College tuition fees to hike again in June

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Mar 02, 2013

By IRENE V. DAGUDOG
Davao Today

Cherry Orendain, Southern Mindanao spokesperson of Anakbayan, an nationwide mass organization of Filipino youth, said they are dismayed as CHED is supposed to be “a regulatory body to control school fees,” but the agency instead, “has become an instrument in the launching of such staged consultations for tuition hikes in campuses.”

Lumad partylist hopeful, seeks Apo Sandawa’s blessings

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Feb 23, 2013

By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today

“Nangayo kami og blessing nga molampos kami sa katuyoan nga madala ang tingog sa tribu didto sa kongreso ug luwas kami sa peligro (We ask that we will be successful in our aim to bring the voice of the lumads in the Congress and that the gods will protect us from danger),” Capuyan, Katribu’s third nominee, told davaotoday.com.

Protest halts with USM prexy’s reassignment

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Feb 20, 2013

By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today

Protesters who barricaded for over a month at the gates of the University of Southern Mindanao stopped their collective action after the Commission on Higher Education issued an immediate temporary special assignment to former USM President Jesus Antonio Derije.

Indonesia opens two new schools in Mindanao

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Nov 27, 2012

By MICK M. BASA
Davao Today

“We have to establish the learning centers as we know the Indonesians living here have limited access to basic needs such as education.” — Muhammad Nuh, Indonesia’s Education Minister

Youth, lawmakers lament House’s approval of K+12 on final reading

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Nov 20, 2012

By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today

“The plan for K+12 is not to provide higher education opportunities to the youth, but merely to create an army of semi-skilled labor for immediate employment abroad. It’s being designed to develop immediately employable youth locally for them to become underpaid, or worse, abused workers in a foreign land.” — Atty. Leah Librado-Yap, Davao City First District Councilor

Letters from Czechoslovakia: Davao students lament education crisis

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Nov 17, 2012

By PAUL RANDY P. GUMANAO
Davao Today

According to Palma Gil, the students’ resistance has inspired the establishment of an anti-Nazi students’ coalition in Czechoslovakia and elsewhere.  Now, the commemoration is essentially an observance of the continued contribution of student activism in various reforms in the educational system.