The picture reminds us that there are Filipino classrooms under acacia, mango or whatever shady tree(s) that grow in school grounds to accommodate increasing school populations in our public school sytem, both in the elementary and high school levels. Lack of classrooms and inadequate learning facilities like the requisite computer and science labs, and libraries continue to plague the public schools. Of course, there's the dearth of competent teachers esp. of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) courses in both levels.
We see how students and parents howl in protest each time there is a move for, or there is actually, a tuition fee increase in the university level.
Our front page story tells us that in Nigeria, "the newly appointed minister of state for education, Kenneth Gbagi, has called for the deregulation of the university sector so that schools can single-handedly raise funds for their projects."
We wonder how the students of our state universities and colleges esp. the Iskolars ng Bayan of the University of the Philippines would take a proposal of that kind.
Nigeria's predicament is that "government's resources are inadequate to cover the high cost needed to run Nigerian universities every year." That's sounds very Pinoy too!
Go for more details of the front page story by Ngozi Sam in http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/National/5607562-146/minister_advocates_deregulation_of_universities_.csp
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