Labor and education - Matches

Despite millions poured into the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) Special Program for the Employment of Students (SPES), a study show..

What are the chances of a Filipino child dropping out of a public high school?According to the Philippine Institute of Development Studies (PIDS), 57 ..

President Duterte signed into law Republic Act (RA) 10391, or the “Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act”, last month. The la..

Can free education deliver on its promise of poverty alleviation?AFTER HURDLING the famously lethargic processes of the Philippine Congress, free coll..

When the law – Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education – was passed, its proponents expected universal approval. After all, it mand..

According to the Philippine Institute of Development Studies, there is an alarming 57 percent dropout rate among junior public high school students.Am..

The Manila office of the International Labor Organization (ILO) has just come up with Decent Work Country Diagnostics: Philippines 2017.The Diagnostic..

Days after President Rodrigo Duterte signed the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act or the free tuition law, the UP System announced th..

There’s no free lunch, but in the Philippines there’s free housing, education and, soon, free irrigation and tax-free incomes.Last week Pr..

Instead of weeping over the newly enacted law mandating free tuition and other related subsidies for students in the country’s 114 state univers..

Rody seems to have bit the bullet in signing the law on free tuition in public tertiary institutions against the advise of his economic managers due t..

Senator Loren Legarda today said that providing free tertiary education in public colleges and universities is the government's commitment to the peop..

Economists belonging to the Foundation for Economic Freedom (FEF) joined calls for President Duterte to veto the proposed legislation to mandate free ..

The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), Department of Education (DepED), and Innovations for Poverty Action Philippines are jointly o..

University of the Philippines Diliman Chancellor Michael Tan and other like-minded administrators of state universities and colleges may be up to some..