QUEZON CITY, March 16 -- The education sector needs to focus on basic science and mathematics, teacher education, and graduate education to improve the quality and supply of science and technology (S&T) graduates in the Philippines. This was emphasized by professor and academician Dr. William Padolina during a recent webinar organized by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) titled “A Labor Market Analysis of S&T Human Resource Needs in the Philippines”. Padolina said that basic sciences, including biology, chemistry, physics, earth sciences, social sciences, as well as mathematics, need to be strengthened as these are the source of “new ideas”.