“Edukasyon ang aming panlaban sa kamangmangan at paniniil ng ibang mamamayan” — Lala, Grade 12 Student ng Lumad Bakwit School sa Cebu Dalawampu’t limang guro at estudyanteng nagkukubli sa Unibersidad ng San Carlos sa Cebu City ang dinakip ng pulisya sa di umano’y ‘rescue operation’ ng PNP. Lumikas ang mga…

Philippine Education System: Don’t just build back. Build better. This piece was submitted as an entry to the UPLB Economics Society Econvergence Essay Competition and won 1st place. If education predicts the future, then every Filipino should be worried. The pandemic has disrupted education. The pandemic, however, did not cause the education…

In the Philippines, a communist label could be your death sentence. The 60-year conflict between the state and the Communist Party of the Philippines’s armed guerilla, the New People’s Army (CPP-NPA), has been the longest ongoing communist insurgency in the world. Many presidents have promised, in one way or another…

This piece was submitted as an entry to the Ditto Sarmiento Journalism Cup 2021 and won 9th place out of about 450 entries. — Sa pag-usbong ng pandemya at pagsimula ng distance learning, tila kahanga-hanga ang bilang ng paligsahan sa pamamahayag online. Mapa- hayskul o kolehiyo, masasabi ng karamihan na buhay na buhay ang campus journalism sa bansa. Ngunit, talaga nga ba? Noong ika-4 ng Agosto, inilahad ng Kagawaran ng Edukasyon ang Memorandum №065…

Nitong ika-7 ng Marso, naghain ng 24 mandamyendo de rekisa o warrant of arrest ang PNP at AFP na nauwi sa 9 patay at 6 arestadong aktibista sa Calabarzon. Ngunit makatwiran nga ba ito o sadyang ginawa lamang upang mapatahimik ang mga kritiko ng gobyerno? Karamihan sa mga naaresto’t namatay…