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07-16-2007, 10:40 AM
COMMISSION on Higher Education (CHED) chairman Dr. Carlito Puno said the influx of foreign students in the country has increased significantly this year since President Arroyo launched the government’s program on tourism-education two years ago. Citing data provided by Presidential Adviser for Education Dr. Mona Valisno, Puno said from 10,000 foreign students and foreign tourist enrollees this year, the figure is expected to swell to almost 50,000 next schoolyear with the majority being Koreans.
"We’re becoming a university belt in Asia. Foreign students and foreign tourist enrollees come here because they like our educational system and we are positioning the Philippines as the Knowledge Center in Asia and the Pacific,’’ Puno said.
Valisno said there are now 80 schools with foreign enrollees. The schools are based in eight priority destinations clustered as Baguio, Ifugao, Banaue; Vigan, Laoag, Hundred Islands; Subic, Clark; Metro Manila and environs (Tagaytay, Cavite, Laguna, Batangas); Northern Palawan; Cebu, Bohol, Camiguin; Boracay, Iloilo; and Davao area.
Training programs or courses offered in the said schools include entrepreneurship development, Philippine cuisine, hotel and restaurant servicing, culinary arts, tour guiding, bartending, nursing assistant courses including care-giving, civil technology, computer design, tailoring, skills training on bamboo craft and T-shirt printing, among others.
Using the twin lures of an education system at par with the world and comparatively cheaper costs, Valisno said the goals set under the tourism-education program are achievable within three years. – Ashzel Hachero
(Taken from Malaya Online Edition)
http://www.malaya.com.ph/jul16/metro4.htm/
すごい微妙な気持ち…
I didn't know whether to be glad that we can offer world-class education that attracts foreigners or be sad that we serve overseas students when those efforts could have been redirected to serve so many Filipinos who still do not have even the basic human right of being given compulsory education.
"We’re becoming a university belt in Asia. Foreign students and foreign tourist enrollees come here because they like our educational system and we are positioning the Philippines as the Knowledge Center in Asia and the Pacific,’’ Puno said.
Valisno said there are now 80 schools with foreign enrollees. The schools are based in eight priority destinations clustered as Baguio, Ifugao, Banaue; Vigan, Laoag, Hundred Islands; Subic, Clark; Metro Manila and environs (Tagaytay, Cavite, Laguna, Batangas); Northern Palawan; Cebu, Bohol, Camiguin; Boracay, Iloilo; and Davao area.
Training programs or courses offered in the said schools include entrepreneurship development, Philippine cuisine, hotel and restaurant servicing, culinary arts, tour guiding, bartending, nursing assistant courses including care-giving, civil technology, computer design, tailoring, skills training on bamboo craft and T-shirt printing, among others.
Using the twin lures of an education system at par with the world and comparatively cheaper costs, Valisno said the goals set under the tourism-education program are achievable within three years. – Ashzel Hachero
(Taken from Malaya Online Edition)
http://www.malaya.com.ph/jul16/metro4.htm/
すごい微妙な気持ち…
I didn't know whether to be glad that we can offer world-class education that attracts foreigners or be sad that we serve overseas students when those efforts could have been redirected to serve so many Filipinos who still do not have even the basic human right of being given compulsory education.