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Breaking the carabao’s back
15 Jan 2010
And 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 [...]
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 [...]
KAISA as UP’s ‘change’?
28 Feb 2009I had an interesting discussion with my English majors last Thursday in a discussion on the language of politics. Hot off the USC elections, the group in charge made references to the parties and their campaign tactics. It was interesting how they dissected the language and the context and probed the factors that may have [...]
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- Tags: Elections, Philippines, STAND-UP, University, UP, USC
I just came home from a forum on documentation and other scholarship. I don’t want to talk about much brainy-geeky suff issues for now so I’d rather discuss the other portion of the forum on e-library services.
So the Main Lib is beefing up its services by offering access to e-libraries and databases like ProQuest and [...]
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- Tags: Academics, Diliman, Education, Library, Philippines, University, UP
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Hi! I'm Alex, a 20-something blogger writing about the discourses of social media. Once in a while I still let slip posts about the mundane, the asinine, and the trivial. Feel free to contact me.
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