The Department of Budget and Management is scheduled to submit to Congress next week the National Expenditure Program or the “President’s Budget” for 2026 that will run up to P6.793 trillion, ...

Last week, as is customary with many academic offices, our department had a general assembly to bring together faculty and staff in preparation for a new academic year. Our agenda moved from ...

I teach a required college freshman course called “Readings in Philippine History.” When the course title is abbreviated for ...

There’s a peculiar silence that visits me sometimes—uninvited, unsettling, yet familiar. It arrives in the quiet after the day has dimmed, when laughter has faded and the world retreats into its ...

President Marcos’ 2025 State of the Nation Address (Sona) clearly signaled that education is a national priority. Nearly 20 percent of the speech was dedicated to the sector—a notable shift from ...

Mahiya naman kayo! (Shame on you!)” seemed to be the most resonant sound bite from President Marcos’ State of the Nation ...

Two Sundays ago, Gen. Nicolas Torre III taught Filipinos a crash course on “How to Deal with Bullies 101.” Too bad his ...

We still tend to think of caregiving mainly as catering to the elderly, even coining the term “old-sitters.” The shortages we face today are for both “babysitters” and “old-sitters,” ...

A few years back, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I found myself confronting an "existential” crisis. Not too different from my favorite philosophers, Socrates and Søren Kierkegaard, ...

One of life’s greatest scourges is discrimination against people, regardless of their reason: race, religion, political views, poverty, gender, or disability. This scourge is all the more serious ...