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Posts Tagged ‘University of the Philippines’
Basic IT as GE course
In: Education
10 Feb 2010
I’m getting sick and tired of the “excuse,” “Kaya nga ako nag-English” as an excuse not to know basic math concepts and technology concepts.
I’ve been involved in IT education as writer, editor, trainer and consultant largely because part of [...]
Breaking the carabao’s back
15 Jan 2010And we complain about the “poor” command of English our graduates have. There’s no reason to play chicken and egg on a problem that is caused by many wrongs on so many different levels. But one thing that the academe shouldn’t do is make matters worse by implementing obviously detrimental policies.
I just recently heard from [...]
I think I am not alone in saying that it is frustrating to be young academic at a university in a third world. Thanks to the Internet, we know that there are so many exciting studies and researches being done elsewhere. The reality that we are lagging behind has just become even clearer.
Even in the [...]
Valued opinion
In: Work
3 May 2009One career drawback of working from home is that it takes its toll on the social aspect of one’s life and career. As for career advancement, who knows when the recession will end or, God forbid, another dotcom bubble bursts? Not that I’m saying that working online is a dead-end path (since there are huge [...]
The profitability of English Studies
28 Apr 2009I might have been brash to attack my own (dying) degree but reality does affirm that English Studies (BAES, UP Diliman) has zero profitability. Survey the graduates of our batch and not one (aside from those who are teaching) has found a field to which the core concepts of the program can be applied. Most [...]
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- Idle Hands
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- That Conan thing
- Breaking the carabao’s back
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- Outpaced
- Binarurot na tambakol
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- Alex: Hi Edzee. Sorry for the very late reply. It seems like you have to bring that up with Globe. If your [...]
- EdZee: I have a 384Kbps Globe Broadband subscription for P995 in the past 36 months and I only learned abou [...]
- Ethel: Mr. Dave Barnedo....Is this the same Mr. Barnedo who's Dad was hospitalized at UST Hospital during t [...]
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