How Our School Prepares Us for the College Entrance Test
By Clarice Joy Ching Each year, thousands of high school students prepare themselves for college, taking entrance tests at colleges and universities. They review for the exams, and sometimes take advance courses. But the question is, How do schools help their students...
The School DOES Matter II
My 13-year-old son, who is starting on his 2nd year of high school this coming school year, asked me one time what prompted me to choose UP from among all the universities. My answer was simple: I had no choice. Coming from a working-class family, my mother impressed...
How to Review On Your Own
By Helen Ng High school graduates are naturally excited in anticipation of new experiences and the kind of life that college offers. They also consider a college education as the best way to fulfill their dreams, because it is an investment that will never depreciate....
Study Smart. Be Ahead.
Whenever the entrance exams of the reputed top three universities draw near, we find students scrambling for their textbooks from their freshman high school year to the present. The student wonders, "Algebra first? Trigonometry? Or focus on Chemistry? What if the test...
Industry Leader Owes Business Skills to Caroling Experience
Rossana Llenado did not have any kind of advantage. Her family poor and no one gave her any capital. Her parents were not important people. They didn’t have any connections. When she was young, she lived in Los Baños, a small town in Laguna. She was a very...
Another A+ for AHEAD Tutorial & Review
Amidst the tutorial centers that have recently mushroomed in the metro’s school districts, one name stands out—AHEAD Tutorial & Review Center. For one thing, they’re the most visible. Their billboards, featuring celebrity students Maxene Magalona and Andrei...
PROGRAM OFFERINGS
ACCOUNTANCY Accountancy programs equip students with skills in recording, classifying, and analyzing formal business transactions. Students also receive training in related fields of business such as management, statistics, finance, economics, and psychology. They...
UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS
The University of Santo Tomas, the Pontifical and Catholic University of the Philippines, is a Dominican institution of higher learning. Under the inspiration and patronage of St. Thomas Aquinas, UST commits itself to the pursuit of truth and to the preservation,...
UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES
The University of the Philippines is the first and premier state institution of higher learning in our country. It was founded on June 18, 1908 by Act No. 1870 of the First Philippine Legislature. This Act, also known as the University Charter, specified the functions...
UNIVERSITY OF ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
The University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) traces its beginnings to the Center of Research and Communication (CRC). CRC was established 40 years ago as a think-tank conducting research and offering graduate courses in economics and management. It gradually...