Economy

Dishonest ABE

How a school?s alleged incompetence and failure to meet government requirements threaten the future of several of its students, many of whom had finished their course but couldn?t graduate.

By Cheryll D. Fiel
davaotoday.com

An advertisement for ABE featuring popular actress Heart EvangelistaDAVAO CITY (June 3, 2006) — Charo Divinagracia dreamed of becoming a career woman someday. Thanks to a sister who works abroad and who agreed to pay for her college education, she had the opportunity to pursue that dream.

She picked ABE International College of Business and Accountancy (ABE), a school that boasts of excellent e-business courses, because of its promise of a degree in three years? time and a diploma that would be recognized not only here but also abroad. ABE, a member of the AMA Educational System, had just opened its branch in Davao City when Divinagracia enrolled in Accountancy in 2001.

When Divinagracia reached third year, however, she and her batchmates were advised by the school to shift to another course. The reason: ABE?s accountancy course had not been recognized by the Commission on Higher Education (Ched).

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Workforce Crisis Endangering Public Health: WHO

At least 1.3 billion people worldwide lack access to the most basic healthcare, often because there is no health worker. The shortage is global, but the burden is greatest in countries overwhelmed by poverty and disease where these health workers are needed most.

MANILA ? A serious shortage of health workers in many countries is impairing the provision of essential life-savings interventions such as childhood immunization, safe pregnancy, and access to treatment for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.? This shortage, combined with a lack of training and knowledge, is also a major obstacle for health systems as they attempt to respond effectively to chronic diseases, avian influenza and other health challenges, according to The World Health Report 2006 – Working Together for Health, published today, April 7, by the World Health Organization (WHO).

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Davao?s Unsafe Beach Resorts Won?t Be Promoted: DOT

Nine beaches in the city failed? water-sampling tests
DAVAO CITY — Despite marketing Davao City as a premier islands-to-highland getaway and a land of cool highlands and sunny beaches, the Department of Tourism in Southern Mindanao will not promote beaches or resorts that fail to pass the safety standards set by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

?DOT will not promote unsafe beaches. We respect DENR?s findings,? said Roger Layson, assistant regional director for DOT in Southern Mindanao.

Last Sunday at his weekly television show Gikan sa Masa, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte read a letter from the Center for Health Development Davao Region of the Inter-Regional Inter-Agency Committee. The letter contained the list of nine beaches in the city, which had failed the water-sampling test conducted by the DENR-Environmental Management Bureau.

The beaches were found to have high pathological contamination and indicated severe water pollution. All of these unsafe beaches were located along Davao City?s coastline.
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