Mapúa University has entered once again the global Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings.
For 2021, Mapúa made it in the UK-based rankings alongside Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU), De La Salle University (DLSU), University of Santo Tomas (UST) and Tarlac Agricultural University (TAU).
The THE Impact Rankings is the only global performance tables that assess universities against the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by using carefully calibrated indicators to provide comprehensive and balanced comparisons across three broad areas: research, outreach, and stewardship. This year, it includes 1,115 participating universities from 94 countries.
“Mapúa’s inclusion in the SDG rankings demonstrates its commitment not just to supporting the SDGs through its teaching, research, and community extension work, but also to embodying the goals in its internal practices, policies, and procedures and providing verifiable evidence of its activities,” Mapúa
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DLSU, UST, PUP lead Most Popular Philippine Universities on Facebook
DLSU, UST, and PUP lead the Facebook engagement and statistics in the 2021 edition of the UniRank list.
De La Salle University (DLSU), University of Santo Tomas (UST), and Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) lead UniRank’s newest list of Most Popular Philippine Universities on Facebook, the social media platform which commands the widest following in the country.
The three Manila universities topped Facebook page engagement and statistics in the UniRank Facebook University Ranking of all Philippine higher-education institutions based on a study in February 2021 and released in April.
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At the tertiary level, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) instructed both public and private Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to implement flexible learning to ensure that education will continue.
Flexible learning, CHED said, is a “learner-centered approach that is deeply-rooted in the needs of the students” which should provide them with “most flexibility” while learning through the use of digital and non-digital tools.
To ensure the safety of students and faculty, most HEIs are holding online classes as among the learning delivery modalities under flexible learning. However, this mode also poses challenges to professors in various private HEIs and State Universities and Colleges (SUCs).
De La Salle University (Photo from DLSU Facebook)
On Sunday, Padilla said DLSU was established for “insulares, peninsulares, and mestizos” during the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines.
“Are you from Ateneo? de la Salle? UST? All Spanish established schools for insulares, peninsulares, and mestizos. You don’t need to be a doctor of anything to accept reality,” the action star wrote on his Facebook account, replying to a netizen who called him out for defending Sen. Bong Go who earlier claimed that Lapulapu was a Tausug who came from Sulu.
Padilla’s claim was quickly debunked by history advocacy group High School Philippine History Movement.