Kartilya: Presidential aspirants should bare plans for Education crisis

CARP vs. GARB

Posted by Ronnie Clarion On February - 2009

Land distribution to landless Filipino farmers is a preset of provision under Art. XIII Sec.4 of the 1987 Constitution. Prior to this provision, former Pres. Corazon Aquino mounted the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) which was later enacted through the passage of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL) or RA 6657 on June 10, 1988. However, the program had been excoriated for its failure to completely distribute lands to the beneficiaries within its target completion timeframe of 10 years. It was later extended for another 10 years yet the struggle for genuine agrarian reform continues.

Ang Kartilya ng Katipunan

Posted by Christian Espinoza On June - 12 - 2010

The Revolution of the Katipunan may well have been thwarted by American imperialism at the turn of the 20th century, but it is noteworthy to declare that our people, who at that time were only beginning to form the concept of nationhood, were more than able to organize a revolutionary force that would liberate the entire islands from their Spanish colonizers.

Noynoy Aquino Inaugural Speech

Posted by Kartilya On June - 30 - 2010

Ang pagtayo ko rito ngayon ay patunay na kayo ang aking tunay na lakas. Hindi ko inakala na darating tayo sa puntong ito, na ako’y manunumpa sa harap ninyo bilang inyong Pangulo. Hindi ko pinangarap maging tagapagtaguyod ng pag-asa at tagapagmana ng mga suliranin ng ating bayan.

Subjugating the Philippine System of Education

Posted by Christian Lloyd Espinoza On Oct - 2009

The transformation and reorientation of the current rotten system of education in the country is not possible without the development of a critical consciousness that reflects and acts upon the existing social (dis)order. Any meaningful change in our basic curriculum must be liberative of the docility that has long infringed our mentality, dissolving what little nationalist ideal there is left in the heart of every Filipino youth.

Presidential aspirants should bare plans for Education crisis — CEGP

Posted by Kartilya On 2:08 AM

PRESS RELEASE
12, February 2010

Presidential aspirants should bare plans for Education crisis — CEGP

Young journalists under the leadership of the country’s largest and widest intercollegiate alliance of student publications— the College Editors Guild of the Philippines joined today the KABATAAN PARTYLIST and various student organizations in visiting schools in the University Belt area for their “Ronda Eskwela” campaign which aims to discuss with fellow students the crisis of Philippine education under Ms. Arroyo.

“Every February, many students suffer from heartbreaks not just because they don’t have dates on Valentines day, but most especially because the month is the schedule for yearly ‘fee consultations’ which always end up on imposing new rounds of tuition and other fee increases,” said CEGP President Vijae Alquisola.

The students toured around the University Belt area from one school to another, asking students to sign the petition titled “Manifesto of the youth for genuine education reform and meaningful social change.”
Explaining that education crisis does not only talk about dilapidated facilities, obsolete books, incessant tuition spike, Alquisola said that the crisis goes deep into “the whole situation of the academe.”

For issues and concerns faced by campus journalists, CEGP said they have documented some 204 cases of campus press freedom violations ranging from censorship to harassment.

“Such happened because in these schools, issues of tuition increase and students’ resistance including the editors’ criticism of the policy and fees are present. Even professors with dissenting views face repression, like denial of tenure, just like the case of UP Sociology professor Sarah Raymundo,” he explained.

Raymundo was repeatedly denied of tenure, despite accomplishing more than enough of the requirements for tenureship, apparently due to her involvement in political activities and organizations.

Alquisola added that many teachers don’t get paid on time and trainings, research support are limited or worse, none at all. Most of the non-academic personnel are always on the brink of losing their job. “The government continues to assault us students by giving scanty allocation to education,” Alquisola said.

“This is the sorry state of Philippine education that the presidential candidates fail to discuss every time they are in the podium. If you want to get the youth vote, speak and stand for our issues! Stop bragging; start working on how you would address the education crisis!” Alquisola concluded. ###