Technical vocational education and training, under the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda), rests on a robust quality-assurance system—the Compliance Audit, System for TVET ...

My mother, a person with disability, retired in 2024 at the age of 65, after years of being the municipal budget officer in Ilocos Sur. She’s a registered PWD, and according to Republic Act No.

Apparently, a few who have reason to be.For five years, the nation’s simplest anticorruption tool—the statement of assets, liabilities, and net worth (SALN) of public servants—was locked away ...

Just when you think that last year’s ban on Philippine offshore gaming operators (Pogos) would keep us safe from this scourge comes the news report that more than 200 Filipinos were rescued Monday ...

To understand why corruption remains deeply rooted in the Philippines, one must look beyond politics and laws and examine the moral patterns that shape our daily lives. Ours is a nation of faith yet ...

This holy All Saints’-All Souls’ weekend (with its ghoulish Halloween counterpart), may we contemplate the fleeting nature of life, the exhilarating wonders it offers, and the crushing pain it ...

They were called “Bright Boys” when they both became congressmen for the first time in 1998. They were elected together as ...

I began living on my own at 16, not fully, perhaps, but far enough from home to feel it. Senior high school brought me to ...

TO whom can we entrust our nation’s future if the political leaders in Congress—those in whom the people repose their trust by electing them to their exalted positions—are themselves involved in ...

In the pursuit of a half-a-trillion peso crime, the Independent Commission for Infrastructure’s (ICI) first set of timid ...

The abrupt suspension of the Senate investigation into the substandard and ghost flood control projects has left everyone in suspense, whetting the public’s appetite for more revelations about this ...

Ours is a country with a serious learning disability. Signs of it are all around us, both at macro (aggregate) and micro ...