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Several senatorial candidates are calling for more state subsidy for poor students following the suicide of University of the Philippines Manila freshman Kristel Tejada who could not pay her tuition.
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Three days before his graduation from high school, a fourth year student of the Philippine Science High School died after reportedly collapsing during a graduation rehearsal on campus on Tuesday.
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Senatorial candidate Teddy Casiño on Tuesday urged the Aquino administration to reinstate the P17 billion slashed last year from the budget proposal of state universities and colleges (SUCs), and to incorporate that amount in the 2014 budget.
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A group of young demonstrators sympathizing with the family of Kristel Tejada vandalized the walls of the University of the Philippines-Manila Tuesday.
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Heads must roll. Kabataan Representative Raymond Palatino on Tuesday told Radyo Inquirer 990AM in an interview that concerned officials in the University of the Philippines-Manila should resign for their alleged “unsatisfying” response to the case of Kristel Tejada who committed suicide supposedly after being denied access to the university’s education due to financial woes.
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“The UP deprived my daughter of her only hope to help us,” said the father of Kristel Tejada, a freshman at the University of the Philippines (UP) Manila who took her life on March 15 at their home in Tayuman by drinking silver cleaner.
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When poetry and medicine entwine, even the sick and dying discover the beauty of the “finite life,” an award-winning poet’s research showed.
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Students of the Far Eastern University (FEU) Makati campus could not have been in a better place to see if they were cut out for entrepreneurship.
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Suggestions on how to help impoverished students are pouring in amid the outrage sparked by the death of a UP Manila freshman, who committed suicide after she filed a leave of absence for failure to pay tuition.
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The faculty of the Department of Behavioral Sciences in UP Manila on Monday called on the school's chancellor and vice chancellor to resign following the death of 16-year-old freshman Kristel Tejada.
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The University of the Philippines (UP) Visayas administration has ordered the scrapping of a controversial annual fundraising activity at the freshman dormitories in its campus in Miag-ao town following an outcry from several alumni and teachers.
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Officials of the University of the Philippines Manila (UPM) suspended classes on Monday and called for sobriety amid public dismay and outrage over the suicide of a freshman forced to put her studies on hold because she could not pay the tuition.
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Team PNoy senatorial bets have taken turns offering remedial measures following the tragic suicide of Kristel Tejada, the 16-year-old Behavioral Sciences freshman of the University of the Philippines (UP) in Manila after she was forced to take a leave for her inability to pay a tuition loan.
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In death, Kristel Pilar Mariz Tejada has definitely grabbed her school’s attention. A day after the student’s suicide put the University of the Philippines and its student support system under scrutiny, UP president Alfredo Pascual on Saturday said the state-run institution “can turn the tragedy into a greater resolve to act and make UP accessible to the poor.”
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Education officials in Taguig are fast-tracking the installation of security cameras in the city’s public schools and taking other security measures in the wake of Thursday’s shooting at the Ricardo Papa High School in Barangay Tuktukan when a student accidentally shot his cousin in the jaw with a homemade gun.
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Academic excellence literally pays off in Taguig City with the approval of an ordinance that grants cash incentives of up to P30,000 to outstanding elementary and high school graduates in public schools.
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A cadet from Davao del Sur has topped the graduating class of the Philippine Military Academy this year, PMA officials announced on Monday.
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Consider this: The industries that are most desirable to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), according to the Philippine Business for Education (PBEd), are agro-based goods, fisheries, health care products, rubber-based goods, textiles and clothing, electronic goods, e-ASEAN, automotive products, tourism, wood-based products and logistics.
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De La Salle University (DLSU) is hosting an entrepreneurship expo on March 16 on the ground floor of Henry Sy Sr. Hall on its Taft Avenue campus.
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Over the last three years, with a hushed dedication one would expect from a librarian, Joselito Carpena Jr. has been sending out emails to potential book donors.
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The Commission on Higher Education has ordered at least six schools in Southern Mindanao to stop offering nursing courses effective June due to the mediocre performance of their graduates in recent Nursing Board exams, among others reasons.
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Like the children of soldiers who died for their country, the offspring of workers who died for the environment will be awarded scholarships to honor their parents' struggles, Environment Secretary Ramon Paje said on Friday.
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Poverty is the number one concern that candidates should focus on, INQUIRER.net’s survey reveals on Thursday.
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The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday said it could not stop candidates from giving speeches at graduation ceremonies but that they should turn down these invitations as a matter of “delicadeza.”
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Three young women environmentalists shared tips with student leaders from the Visayas on how to adapt to climate change.
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A proposed ordinance in Manila seeks to ban the no-permit-no-exam policy at all private and public schools in the city. The draft ordinance filed by Councilor DJ Bagatsing notes that aside from the “skyrocketing tuition” and miscellaneous fees, schools also marginalize poor students who have not paid their fees by prohibiting them from taking periodical examinations.
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If all goes well, by 2015, the 11 member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), including the Philippines, will have transformed themselves into a “borderless” region where there is free movement of capital, investment, goods, services and skilled labor.
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