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Mayor Belmonte vows to protect UP Diliman s academic freedom

University of the Philippines (up.edu.ph) Belmonte on Tuesday said that “academic freedom will always be protected and upheld” in her city as she acknowledged its importance following her previous teaching career in the university. “I was a lecturer at the UP before and I know how important academic freedom is in an educational institution,” the mayor said in a statement. “True learning will only happen in an environment where there is a free discourse of ideas by all members of the community,” added Belmonte, who previously taught Master of Arts or MA students at UP’s Archaeological Studies Program after completing postgraduate degrees in Archaeology and Museum Studies in the United Kingdom. 

QC tightens security in quarantine hotels

Published January 24, 2021, 7:38 PM Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte ordered the stricter implementation of security measures in hotels used as quarantine facilities for returning Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) after more cases of the B.1.1.7 or the new United Kingdom-variant of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) were reported in the country.  (FACEBOOK/ MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Belmonte suggested that police officers be deployed outside the said hotels to ensure that each person staying inside will complete his or her 14-day quarantine.  “Now that the DOH confirmed the presence of the new strain in several places of the country, the more we need to double our efforts in preventing the spread of the virus,” she said in a statement issued on Sunday. 

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