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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 |
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EDITORIALs
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Schools start, learning lurches
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PUBLIC grade and secondary schools reopen next Monday, and with them
the reopening of the education Pandora’s box—the multitude of
problems that has beset the education system, students, teachers and
parents for decades that the government has not fully dealt with.
Come Monday, many students will return to
overcrowded classrooms (50 to 60 per class is the norm) or study
under shade trees. The school-building program has not kept pace
with population growth (and the growing pupil population) and the
massive migration to urban centers.
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O T H E R C O L U M N S A
N D F E A T U R E S
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POLICY
PEEK
By Ernesto F. Herrera
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Still Manila’s
finest?
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IN a previous column written almost a couple of months ago, I warned
readers about a rogue mobile patrol unit operating and victimizing
people, usually young urban professionals and students in the Vito
Cruz area.
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VIRTUAL
REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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Electricity shortage
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You may be ranting about high electricity rates. The fact is—if
there is no electricity, you will pay any price to have it.
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The POEA chief in distress?
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During last week’s wake for my son, Gil, some of his friends from
the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) came to pay
their last respects. In my talk with them, I asked how their boss,
POEA Administrator Rosalinda Baldoz, was faring.
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MEN
& EVENTS
By Alito L. Malinao
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There oughta be a law
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Senate President Manny Villar, who has not been shy in proclaiming
his intention in 2010, was quoted as saying that since there is no
law that bans politicians from endorsing certain products...
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MISSION
IMPOSSIBLE
By Marit Stinus-Remonde
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Filipinos and the au
pair system in Europe
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Mr. and Mrs. Hansen, a wealthy Danish couple, met Minnie in a small
island resort in the Visayas. They liked the teenage girl, and
offered to sponsor her nursing studies and invite her to stay with
them in Denmark.
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FEATURE
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Former street kid helps
Manila’s homeless children
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MANILA: On a humid summer day, street educator
Butch Nerja pounds the garbage-littered streets of Divisoria,
Manila’s chaotic merchant market district, to check on his wards.
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