Marlen V. Ronquillo
An education issue managed to get a rare, prominent break into the tight news pages of the major dailies a few days back. It was about the tough act of getting into the University of the Philippines, the country’s premier university. Some 80,000 hopefuls took the entrance exams across the country, and 30,000 of them crammed into the main campus in Diliman. Acceptance for the whole system will reportedly be at 15 percent and only less than 4,000 will gain entry into the Diliman flagship campus.