Senator Francis Pangilinan (Photo from Kiko Pangilinan website / kikopangilinan.com / MANILA BULLETIN)
This after Pangilinan filed Senate Bill 2016, or Academic Freedom Act, banning all police and military operations in all state universities and colleges without coordination with school management.
The measure seeks to strengthen and uphold the freedom of teachers and students to teach, study and pursue knowledge and research without unreasonable interference or restrictions in all state universities and colleges.
Pangilinan, a former student leader, filed the bill after Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana recently unilaterally abrogated the 1989 University of the Philippines-Department of National Defense (UP-DND) accord.
The proposed measure seeks to protect and guarantee academic freedom enjoyed by SUCs by:
A Filipino-designed Teacher’s Mirror device has been fabricated to help with online mathematics instruction.
The “Mirror Board” is an innovative device fabricated by the DigiHub FabLab Davao to provide the teachers or instructors a tool that can help them adapt to the new way of conducting their classes which are now done online.
The teacher’s device won the 3rd Place award in the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Region 7’s Fabrication Festival. DigiHub-FabLab Davao is a collaborative project between the University of Southeastern Philippines (USEP), the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI XI), and the Department of Science and Technology (DOST XI).
UP academic employees union leaders getting death threats union official By NICOLE-ANNE C. LAGRIMAS, GMA News
Published January 26, 2021 3:28pm Leaders of the University of the Philippines academic employees union have been getting death threats since last year, a union official said Tuesday. Professor Melania Flores of the All UP Workers Alliance, representing some 14,000 university employees, said their ranks have experienced red-tagging even before the unilateral termination of the UP-Department of National Defense accord. Sa kasalukuyan po, halos lahat ng presidente ng aming chapter sa All UP Academic Employees Union ay mayroong death threat at nakakaranas ng sunod-sunod na harassment, she said at a press conference.
PASAY CITY, Jan. 26 The Senate on Tuesday, January 26, 2021, passed a resolution expressing the sense of the Senate to welcome the Department of National Defense s (DND) decision to answer the various calls for dialogue with the University of the Philippines (UP) on the termination of the 1989 UP-DND agreement.
Sponsored by Sen. Francis Kiko Pangilinan, proposed Resolution No. 616 also urges both parties to revisit the accord and to further urge DND to hold dialogues with other academic institutions to find a common ground that promotes the rule of law, peace and security, and protects academic freedom and the pursuit of excellence.
Jan 26, 2021
NATIONAL team pool members William Navarro and Jaydee Tungcab s applications for the upcoming PBA Rookie Draft hike the number of applicants to 80 ahead of the league s Jan. 27 deadline.
The inclusion of the Gilas pool members further deepens the crop of talents in what is expected to be one of the most loaded aspirants pool in recent history.
Navarro, a 6-foot-6 center from Ateneo, and Tungcab, a 6-foot-2 guard from University of the Philippines, were part of the cadets called up for duty in the second window of the 2021 Fiba Asia Cup qualifiers in Manama, Bahrain last November.
Each played a game and contributed heavily in Gilas two-game sweep of Thailand.