Thursday, July 14, 2011

Statistics on Philippine Education

Statistics on Philippine Education: Good News and Bad News!
by Dr. Romulo A. Virola 1
Secretary General, NSCB

Newsweek says Asia’s globalized youth have been cast as “money-grubbing me-firsters”. While this characterization may aptly apply to the conspicuous, capitalistic young consumers of the emerging economic powers of the region, and while Dr. Jose P. Rizal’s hope of the fatherland may not exactly fit this tag to a tee, it pains me to hear about many of our brilliant, young students dropping out of college to work in the call centers. Yes, the call centers where the money seems to be. Statistics on Philippine Education

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