There and back again
October 22, 2009
by Alex
3 comments
Oh that should be the least of your worries, Senator Angara.
Those 100 academics you helped ship should come back but their return shouldn’t be tied to utang na loob. It’s a worthy cause for the academic but the government must be able to capitalize on these scholar’s potential contributions by uplifting the standards of education here as well.
Mind you that a number of our academics abroad are there primarily because of the government’s failure to provide better learning venues. Our state universities rot due to budget cuts. Teachers sacrifice better lives by staying in the academe. And I’m glad you see things that way.
But how about the rest of us here, Senator Angara? How about the rest of the academics who toil for their own academic development all while paying taxes and serving the country? The answer I’m looking for is not about creating more opportunities to go abroad, it’s about making sure that our own institutions are able to provide world class instruction.
