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Marking thirty-three years: Professional Regulation Commission
CREATED on June 22, 1973, by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 223, the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) took over the licensure functions that were formerly supervised by the Civil Service Commission. Initially, the PRC occupied the old building of the Civil Service Commission. Despite the lack of facilities and equipment, the PRC was not deterred in fulfilling its mission as it pioneered in the computerization of its operations with a database of the country’s professionals and by 1975 was issuing computer-printed registration cards. In the same year, the PRC started to accredit the professional organizations that would take over much of the certification work in the future.
Billions for clean-up drive
THE administration has allocated a billion pesos to combat corruption led by the Presidential Anti-Graft Commission in coordination with the Office of the Ombudsman. Unlike the billion pesos to combat insurgency through military build-up and poverty alleviation, no deadline was set for the eradication of corruption.
It’s up to Iran now
IN a surprising shift from a long-term policy, the United States, which has had no direct talks with Iran for 25 years, since the hostage taking incident in Tehran, suddenly announced that it is willing to join Iran nuclear talks. Not only did Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice clarify the new policy, she also envisioned a pattern of rewards and punishments that Iran could face, flew to Vienna and sold the idea to her European colleagues. Six world powers (US, UK, China, Germany, Russia, and the EU) met and agreed to direct talks with Iran, based on the agreed rewards and punishments. Nothing more happened in Vienna, than approval of the agreement, which the EU’s foreign policy chief Javier Solona delivered to Iran.
Education and job generation
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has ordered the reorientation of the Philippine education system to be more responsive to the current socio-economic trends here at home and abroad.
Farewell to an exemplary father, and a dedicated public servant: Superintendent Hilario P. Davide Sr.
HILARIO P. Davide Sr., the father of retired Supreme Court Chief Justice Hilario G. Davide Jr., joined our Creator on Saturday, June 17, 2006, the eve of Father’s Day. A native of Colawin, Argao, Cebu Province, he was born on January 14, 1905. A school teacher, he began his career teaching the first grade in the mountain barangay of Apo in his hometown of Argao in southern Cebu. While teaching at Talaga Elementary School, he met his wife Josefa Gelbolingo, also a teacher. They continued their public school service, with Davide Sr. moving up the educational bureaucracy, serving as a supervisor who lobbied for the construction of more public elementary schools in barangays of Argao, then as school superintendent in Lapu-Lapu City where he retired in 1969.
Pollution without end
THE word smog, for smoke, and fog, was first coined in 1905. Smoke from factories and vehicles is trapped by a low-lying fog. All the deadly air pollutants are in that smoke, too.
The Lord’s prayer
JESUS said to His disciples, "In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.
Proud of our country
WE all know what it means to be proud of an institution and be loyal to it to the point of being generous and self-sacrificing for it. Students of a good school have such pride; so have officers and employees of a company or of a great, reputable institution.
Bright and breezy
ACCORDING to GMA herself, eighty to a hundred students can and should be packed in one classroom, in two shifts, to solve the endemic shortage of space. That boggles the imagination of anyone who has seen those box-like schoolhouses donated by philanthropists and civic-minded federations of commerce and industry. The countryside is dotted with these well-meaning though inappropriately designed structures. Mystifying as it may seem, we were quite adept at designing schools until we lost the knack for it, for some inexplicable reason.
Corruption
CORRUPTION with its vast complexity as a national anomaly is in the news again, this time as a malignancy that must be rooted out at all cost.
Signs of times
BILLBOARDS blighting our cities, along highways and expressways and under and over passes — the billboard jungle sequestering every public space above the heads of pedestrians and passengers. This isn’t about safety and distracted motorists only; this is also about order, beauty, aesthetics.
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