ARMM Teachers Up in Arms Over Delayed Pay
Click on image to view slideshow Teachers in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) have not been receiving their salaries on time, forcing many of them to hold demonstrations,…
Gov?t Spies in State Schools: Threat to Academic Freedom
The University of the Philippines (UP) as the premier academic institution in the country remains one of the bulwarks of academic freedom. But its students are being harassed and military and police forces are intensifying surveillance operations inside the campus. Reyna Mae Tabbada reports for Bulatlat.
Scandal Frays Nerves of Davao Nurses
Davaoe?os who passed the scandal-tainted June 2006 nursing board exams are junking the plan to require a retake of the test, while some bewailed the government?s failures in the education and health systems as the primary factors that created this mess. Jeffrey B. Javier reports.
Feeling the Crunch
The government hastens the privatization or commercialization of state colleges and universities by lowering the budget for these schools, who are forced to increase tuition and come up with all sorts of income-generating projects that have nothing to do with education. In the meantime, poor students and their families are caught in a bind. Davao Today staff writer Grace S. Uddin tells us why.
All Fired-Up: Students Oppose Tuition Hike in UP
Activism is alive and burning inside the UP Mindanao campus as students stayed up until dawn last week to protest the astronomical tuition increases the administrators of the University of thePhilippines system are proposing. Davao Today intern Melody Amor S. Nicolas was there.