Pinas: Learning Center of Asia?

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How about this...

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This shows that the country has alot of good schools that are at par with the rest of the world.

The only problem is that these schools are not given the much needed attention....

Business Mirror
October 30, 2008



[SIZE=3]Davao University Churns out Own IT Software, Save Dollars[/SIZE]

By Manuel T. Cayon




DAVAO CITY—A religious-ran university here has been saving dollars and improving its operations through the ingenuity of its Filipino information-technology (IT) experts who developed their own software and saved thousands of dollars for the institution.
The University (UIC) of the Immaculate Concepcion has been reaping dividends on the talents of its IT’s Management Information Systems (MIS) department, whose director himself, Rolly Tayabas, has developed two of the university’s systems software of the three separate campus of the UIC.
He was also set to develop another software to replace the existing software used to manage the records of the UIC human resource and the payroll.
“All the operations of the university have been computerized, from cashiering and finance-recording to issuing bar-coded identification cards and library stockpiling, facilitating transactions and “allowing even parents to check on whether their children really paid the money they gave for tuition,” Tayabas said.
Tayabas said the university formerly depended on the Blackboard software, an electronic learning (e-learning) tool that allows students to access online books and journals, engage in discussion forum in the class and link all computers and offices of the Bankerohan campus, the Bonifacio and JP Laurel Avenue campus.

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I think before we aspire to become a learning center of Asia, we have to solve first many issues in our educational system like this issue mentioned below...

Philippine Star
By Ma. Elisa P. Osorio
Updated September 18, 2008 12:00 AM


Likewise, foreign businessmen have said that the problem of education has had a negative impact on the number of qualified workers available.
In fact, [SIZE=3]the education problem in the country will have an adverse effect on the investment behavior of businesses[/SIZE], European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) executive Henry Schumacher said.


“We (businesses) can’t wait (for the government to implement reforms). The jobs will have gone somewhere else,” Schumacher warned.


He said if the private sector will wait for the government to solve the education problem then it will be too late. The country’s ASEAN neighbors, specifically Vietnam , are actively attracting foreign investors and are giving attractive packages for businesses in order to set up shop in their respective countries.