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Youth groups protest education budget cuts

MANILA, August 4, 2011—As second semester of the Academic Year 2011 – 2012  is at nigh, different student and youth groups trooped the Congress today to press the lawmakers to increase the budget in education and to stop the slashing off the budget allocated for state universities and colleges (SUCs). [ READ MORE ]

SPECIAL REPORT: 2011 proposed budget prone to corruption—think-tank

Independent think-tank Ibon Foundation, Inc. doubts that the increment in the 2011 Budget is not for the public good but for “patronage” politics, which the Aquino administration, upon the first day of its installation, has promised to eliminate. [ READ MORE ]

Youth groups ask new CHED chair to institute reforms in education

Youth groups challenge new Commission on Higher Education (CHED) chief, Patricia Licuanan, Ph. D. to make substantive reforms in the higher education sector in the Philippines, especially on the issue of skyrocketing matriculation and other school fees. [ READ MORE ]

Sa Buwan ng Kababaihan: Mga Eba ng tahanan, hikahos pa rin

Ngayong ipinagdiriwang ng buong mundo ang Sentenaryo ng Araw ng mga Kababaihan, sinasabing ang mga Pinay ay nananatili pa ring nakatali sa yapos ng kahirapan at oportunidad. [ READ MORE ]

Philippine health sector dying, says doctors’ alliance

With 200 hospitals halt their operations and about 800 have partially shut-down, the Philippine healthcare system is really, in deepest trouble. And who is to blame? It's the State, says militant Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD). [ READ MORE ]

Hindi pagsara sa UP Cebu High, ikinatuwa ng solon

Ikinagalak ni reelectionist Kabataan Partylist Rep. Raymond Palatino ang hindi tuluyang pagpapasara sa University of the Philippines High School sa Cebu dahil na rin sa petisyon ng mga mag-aaral, kaguruan at maging lokal na mga opisyal ng gobyerno roon[ READ MORE ]

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