MANILA, Philippines - Thousands of Filipinos who are seeking jobs in Information Technology-Business Process Outsourcing (IT-BPO) but lack skills to
Read MoreThis is a re-posted editorial piece. MANILA, Philippines — In material or economic development, the Philippines sticks out like a sore thumb for havi
Read MoreRegional News GORAKHPUR, India — Pedestrians weave their way through a sea of cars, rickshaws and motorbikes, a desperate scramble for space just m
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — The 37th Philippine Business Conference (PBC), the country's biggest annual business meeting in the country, is urging the gov
Read MoreRegional News The global outlook has become increasingly uncertain, and the recovery is more sluggish than we envisaged just a few months ago as th
Read MoreDespite efforts by the government to fast-track the approval process, only four of the 10 priority public-private partnership (PPP) projects may be
Read MoreLOW- AND MIDDLE-income countries like the Philippines can boost economic growth and global competitiveness by spending more to make sure skills of s
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. Part 2 When President Aquino unveiled the PPP program to the world on the occasion of his first state-of-the-nati
Read MoreThis is a re-posted photo release from the website of the Senate of the Philippines. one laptop per child Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile j
Read MoreThe Department of Education (DepEd) plan to extend the basic education course by two years is set to take off next school year with new curricula de
Read MoreTHE GOVERNMENT’S review of its centerpiece public-private partnership (PPP) program could result in more changes to the list of projects initially p
Read MoreRegional News NEW DELHI—India on Wednesday unveiled a much-anticipated low-cost tablet computer it aims to be sold to students for about 1,750 rupe
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — I share the disappointment of our leading universities over the drop in their global rankings. No Philippine university made i
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. You know a program is successful in this country when politicians are itching to dip their hands into it. Going b
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. WHO ARE the poor? Where are they? Ofelia walks every day with her children to the forest to gather hearts of banan
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - Sen. Franklin Drilon yesterday vowed to defend the retention of the entire P39.4-billion allocation for the Department of Soci
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. Filipino student activists have found a more engaging way to call attention to themselves than the issues they are
Read MoreThe story is going around that P-Noy got visibly irked and walked out of the room after the current education secretary gave a ridiculously low figu
Read MoreTHE promotion of religious literacy to foster peace-building in the Philippines has received a big boost through a tie-up of the country’s top educa
Read MoreRegional News This is a re-posted op-ed piece. The rapid economic development of Asia since World War II — starting with Japan, South Korea and Taiw
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