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250th Issue Volume 68 No. 2 Wednesday 25 August 2010 |
In this issue |
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SME in Focus Back to Basics
One section of the business community says the present 10–year basic curriculum lags behind global standards. While the proposed 12–year curriculum will supposedly provide young Filipinos with basic life skills and make them ready to join the workforce by age 18. But Jesuit educator Bienvenido Nebres SJ of Ateneo de Manila University says government should go easy on the plan, noting that it could only lead to an increase in the semi-literacy that already plagues society. We are no longer strangers to reports about public school teachers juggling several grade school levels in a single classroom, of children having to trek several kilometers to reach school, or bare community libraries and schoolbooks, where those exist, are peppered with mistakes. It doesn’t even help that the continuing “baby boom” is contributing to the strain each year. It’s not the number of years one spends in school that’s the problem, said one elderly cab driver, himself a product of the public school system back in the 1940s. It’s the quality of education, full stop. In a system plagued by overpopulation, high drop–out rates, shortages of books, lack of teachers and deteriorating facilities, we certainly agree. Public resources are best put to use finding solutions to those problems, if we expect to produce the kind of literate, critical–minded and entrepreneurial citizenry necessary to develop the country’s industrial and commercial base.
Special Report Philippines chosen as regional hub for SME Knowledge and Finance
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Tax Calendar 2010 August - September
SME Events 2010 August - September
SME Power Quote “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. – |
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If the new Education Secretary’s plan is adopted, a new generation will be spending more years in elementary and high school than their elders.
Asia–Pacific SME experts chose Manila to host the proposed Regional SME Knowledge and Finance Center, according to the recently concluded 3rd Regional SME Roundtable at Planters Development Bank. The Center, the first in Asia, hopes to accelerate economic growth and development, generate employment and reduce poverty by improving access to formal finance to Small and Medium Enterprises throughout Asia and the Pacific.
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