By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“Tertiary education is really a privilege.” – Budget Secretary Florencio Abad
Budget secretary’s ”carrot and stick” approach to education scored
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Approved 2012 budget skewed vs peoples’ needs
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Meager spending for social services show that the 2012 budget is anti-people and far from being a ‘reform budget’.” – Vencer Crisostomo, national chairman of Anakbayan.
Sidebar: Filipinos get P1.25 for health, P6.55 for education per day
Filipinos get P1.25 for health, P6.55 for education per day
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com Main story: Approved 2012 budget skewed vs peoples’ needs MANILA — Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raymond “Mong” Palatino criticized the Congress-ratified 2012 national budget of P1.816 trillion ($41.61 billion) as “unhealthy and ignorant” because it gave Filipino a mere P1.25 ($.03) for health and P6.55 ($.15) for education per day. “The…
‘Days of Rage’ starting Nov. 25 against cuts as Senate railroads 2012 budget
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO and ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Debt servicing remains the priority with next year’s debt payments standing at P735.6 billion ($17.1 billion), dwarfing the combined funding of all social services for 2012 amounting to a mere P575.8 billion ($13.39 billion).
The sorry state of education
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Shortages continue to plague the country’s education system despite President Benigno Aquino III’s campaign and inaugural promises that his administration would provide quality education for the Filipino people.
Polytechnic University of the Philippines, condemned to penury
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
PUP remains as one of the last few hopes for children of poor families to gain higher education. But it is slowly being dashed as the PUP struggles with extreme shortages, dilapidated facilities and the pressure to increase tuition and other fees to survive.
Passion for teaching
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – John Clifford Sibayan, 19, is following the footsteps of his mother who is a teacher in a public school in Pampanga. “There is nothing like teaching,” Clifford said during an interview. They do not only teach the students their lessons, for a public school teacher like Clifford’s…
Philippine Normal University, trying to make do with so little
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
The Philippine Normal University is supposedly another option. But more than this, the state of PNU would definitely impact on the state of basic education in the country. An overwhelming majority of teachers, especially in the public school system are trained at PNU, and the quality of graduates it produces would reflect on the state of the country’s public school system. While the PNU gasps for dear life, so would the whole public school system.
Groups vow to intensify protest vs budget cuts
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Various groups opposed to budget cuts in state universities and colleges (SUCs), health and social services have linked-up with government employees who are fighting against the P800 million ($18 million) slash on the 2012 budget for the country’s judiciary.
‘Righteous path not about scrimping on health care and workers’
By MARYA SALAMAT
The House of Representatives approved a P200m ($4.6m) addition to the DOH budget and P400m ($9.2m) for government-owned and controlled corporation hospitals, as a result of the intense campaign of progressive health groups for a higher health budget.
2012 budget is anti-poor – progressive solons
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Progressive partylist groups in the House of Representatives voted ‘no’ to the 2012 appropriations bill, saying that the national budget is “anti-poor” and that it reveals “government neglect and the absence of change.” “Mr. Speaker I cannot in my conscience vote in favor of a bill, which…