The alumni, who include a lawyer, a journalist, a playwright, and a social entrepreneur, believe they deserve an apology from the Armed Forces of the Philippines
UP open to talk with DND, demands clarity of claim on NPA recruitment By TED CORDERO, GMA News
Published January 23, 2021 10:26am The University of the Philippines administration is open to a dialogue with the Department of National Defense to discuss DND s termination of a 31-year-old agreement with the institution, but wants more information about allegations that students were recruited for the communist insurgency. “Gaya ng sinabi na namin, ang UP naman laging open sa dialogo lalo na sa mga bagay na pareho nito,” UP Public Affairs vice president Elena Pernia said in an interview on Dobol B sa News TV on Saturday.
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CSC Chairperson Alicia dela Rosa-Bala urged the public “to nominate government officials and employees deserving of recognition for honest and exemplary service.”
She said the CSC’s regional and provincial offices are ready to accept nominations to the annual search, which forms part of CSC’s Honor Awards Program (HAP).
The awards to be given out are the highest and most coveted recognition given by the government to individuals or group of individuals who have excelled or shown utmost dedication and commitment to public service, the CSC said.
It said all government workers in the career and non-career service, including appointive barangay officials may be nominated.
CHED Chairman J. Prospero De Vera III (Photo from Prospero De Vera’s Facebook page)
CHED Chairman Prospero de Vera III said the recent row between the DND and the State university is expected to happen as the pact between the two institutions has “no clear operational details for implementation.”
“I assert that the implementation of the DND-UP accord was destined to be problematic. The accord has no clear detailed operational details to implement the provisions of the agreement,” De Vera, a faculty member of UP for almost four decades, said.
“The Joint Monitoring Group composed of UP regents and administrators, military, and police officials has not met regularly to determine compliance with the agreement, review alleged violations, determine appropriate penalties, and recommend revisions in the accord given the changing time,” De Vera, a vice president and chairman of the Board of Regents of UP before joining CHED which supervises Higher Education Institutions (HEIs