MISSING CONTEXT: UP Diliman only barangay in PH with no police station
Jan 26, 2021 3:22 PM PHT
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At a glance:
Claim: The University of the Philippines (UP) campus in Diliman, Quezon City is a barangay (village). It is the only barangay in the Philippines without a police station.
Rating: MISSING CONTEXT
The facts: The University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City, is different from Barangay UP Campus, but the university occupies a huge part of the barangay. The university also has its own police force that cooperates with the Philippine National Police (PNP).
Why we fact-checked this: A reader emailed the claim to Rappler for verification.
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.
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Maj. Gen. Vicente Danao (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
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