Live the teachings of the past for a better future
By Chelo Banal-Formoso
Develop your internal drive. This was the first piece of advice this year’s commencement speaker gave to the Class of 2013 of Centro Escolar University (CEU)-Malolos.
Develop your internal drive. This was the first piece of advice this year’s commencement speaker gave to the Class of 2013 of Centro Escolar University (CEU)-Malolos.
Consider this: The industries that are most desirable to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), according to the Philippine Business for Education (PBEd), are agro-based goods, fisheries, health care products, rubber-based goods, textiles and clothing, electronic goods, e-ASEAN, automotive products, tourism, wood-based products and logistics.
If all goes well, by 2015, the 11 member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), including the Philippines, will have transformed themselves into a “borderless” region where there is free movement of capital, investment, goods, services and skilled labor.
The holiday season might have breezed in and out for a lot of people, but it was far from uneventful for the students of the Sisters of Mary (SOM) residential schools whose graduation was held in December.
The 465-meter University of the Philippines-Department of Science and Technology (UP-DOST) Automated Guideway Transit (AGT) made its maiden trip on the Diliman campus on Dec. 14, nearly a year and a half after it was launched. Constructed by Miescor Builders Inc., the P31-million AGT stands on a 6.1-meter-high, 465-meter-long track and runs on rubber wheels to reduce the noise factor. The DOST said the AGT is an entirely Filipino venture and will be a “fully automated, driverless” electricity-run monorail.
This year, we welcomed first-time partner teachers from Cembo Elementary School (CES) and Hen. Pio del Pilar Elementary School in Makati City; Highway Hills Integrated School (HHIS) in Mandaluyong City; J. Zamora Elementary School (JZES) in Pandacan, Manila; Salapan Elementary School in San Juan; Old Balara Elementary School (OBES) in Quezon City; the nonprofit Erda Foundation in Tondo, Manila; and private schools Sienna College of Taytay and De La Salle-Canlubang (DLSU-Canlubang) in Laguna.
The timing was perfect for the awards for teachers given last week by Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), in partnership with the Department of Education (DepEd).
The main idea of the entire National Food Showdown (NFS) may be summed up in alliteration: Students show up and show off their skills at the showdown.
A passion to make a difference through an environmental project can get you somewhere, if you’re a college student who heeds the call from Bayer, the global company that makes products for health care, crop science and innovative system solution.
For five out of its 25 years of existence, the fashion-plus brand Bench has been our partner in education.
How does a leading edge brand celebrate its 25th year in the retail business?
Having shared a lot about parenting a child with autism in previous writings, I now don’t feel a need to preface this piece with a review of my son’s condition.
Zayden “Z” Ramos loves to read almanacs, fact books and travel books. He has a fantastic memory—as in, he can tell you which stock photo has appeared in which other books.
