What it takes to send a family of Filipino domestic workers abroad
Her sister nearly died as a domestic worker abroad. But her dream to work overseas lived on.
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Jan Cuyco
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UPD nixes petitions to #MoveTheSem, opts for one week easing
The University Student Council, along with members of the UP Diliman community, urged the administration to push back the second semester of A.Y. 2021-2022 to give time for constituents to recover from the previous semester. Still, the campus administration decided to push through with the Feb. 7 opening, opting to suspend deadlines in its first week.
14K petitioners urge Shopee and Lazada: ‘reveal, reduce and redesign’ packaging
As Shopee and Lazada prepared to kick off a massive 9.9 sale, 14,000 individuals dropped a petition to demand urgent waste reduction and a sustainable delivery system to ‘enable a better normal.’
Delays in scholarship aid, internet subsidy a ‘perennial problem’ — UP student councils
Several student councils across the UP system reported delays in the delivery of gadgets and internet subsidies through the Student Learning Assistance Support (SLAS) Online, which is meant to cushion the pandemic’s impact on financially challenged Iskolar ng Bayan.
STAND UP wins landslide victory in first remote elections
STAND UP saw a landslide victory after the party’s bets filled 25 out of 31 posts in the UP Diliman University Student Council (USC).
Pandemic exacerbates challenges in K to 12 program as DepEd’s subsidies fall short
Economic difficulties arising from the pandemic have seen Grade 11 and 12 students from private schools flocking to public schools struggling to implement the K to 12 Basic Education Program. Over a hundred private schools offering senior high school education have closed because of low enrollment.
UP student councils campaign for safe, gradual resumption of face-to-face classes
UP student councils across the system called for ‘better’ implementation of remote learning and the gradual resumption of face-to-face classes in the 50th General Assembly of Student Councils (GASC) Monday.
Ready to add to cart? How online shopping creates a ‘silent plastic problem’
As no existing law regulates the e-commerce industry’s amounting waste, environmental groups are worried about the plastic waste uptake from online shopping.
‘Their demands are just’: Int’l scholars pledge support to PH academic strikes
More than 70 international educators and scholars have backed the strike movements brewing across Philippine universities after the series of typhoons that battered the archipelago this month.
UP rushes course packs, offers limited class slots in university’s first dip into remote learning
Teachers and students continue to bear the brunt of remote learning in UP: the faculty beating the deadline of course pack completions, and scholars further relying their chances on luck…
PH journalists wade in ‘uncharted waters’ as COVID-19 shakes the country
As the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spreads across the country, people contend with a Luzon-wide ‘enhanced community quarantine’ (ECQ) that orders them to stay inside to quell the spread of…
DOST scholars decry late stipend due to Form 5 delay, ‘long’ process
Text by Liana Bettina D. Apostol and Ma. Jan Felicia D. Cuyco Physics student Ajay Lagrimas has gotten used to the stipend delay since he entered the university in 2018. …