Grade conscious

For those who have been years removed from schooling, the governments reforms to educational policies are taking effect soon. They’ve added two years to schooling with the new K-12 program. By 2015, school will be starting in August. Grades would be based on...

Blended unity

I have always been a frustrated programmer. I did some school-level programming when I was in grade school and high school but since I decided to go to the liberal arts for college, it basically ended up being a skill-I-used-to-have. Tragic really especially since IT...

Shallow draughts

Having worked in the education industry (oxymoron?) for a decade makes me think of the little hypocrisies of what we do. Make it a case of semantics but what is really the difference of sharing knowledge for the enlightenment of the ignorant versus aggrandizing...

Against the default mindset

I’m always torn whenever I step inside my English for the Professions class and talk about the “default” mindset for fresh graduates and their initial practice of profession. While the class should only deal with business communication, I can’t...

Near perfect

I seldom acknowledge my students in this blog since I usually stereotype them as spoiled brats who never displayed the academic rigor expected of UP students. However, I have to hand it to John Gabriel Pelias – my former English 1 student and the valedictorian...

Two more years

The Department of Education decided that the way to move forward with our country’s educational system is to add an additional two years in order to make sure that we produce world class graduates. No one’s really talking about it despite its looming...