ATENEO DE MANILA UNIVERSITY
The Ateneo de Manila in the Philippines is one of the oldest Jesuit higher learning institutions in Asia. It traces its roots to 1859 when the City of Manila entrusted the administration of the Escuela Municipal de Manila (in Intramuros) to the Jesuit Fathers. The...
ASSUMPTION COLLEGE
Assumption College is an innovative women's college committed to excellent education for leadership and social transformation. It was inspired by its founder, St. Marie Eugenie Milleret de Brou. The College passionately forms persons and communities of faith and...
Business Opportunity is a Matter of Perception
By Rosanna L. Llenado Taking the plunge into a business is always tricky. It requires a combination of market knowledge, business skill, capital, and unwavering nerve. Headlines that incessantly proclaim economic crisis at every corner of the globe are a cause for...
Working Parents
Rossana L. Llenado Combining a Tutorial Business and a Happy Family By Hariette M. Lozano Gone are the days when married women merely serve the role of a housewife, that is to stay home, take care of the kids and do the household chores. Today, these same women can...
Plan to Plan: Planning AHEAD
by Abigail S. Ong A wise man once said that if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Indeed, planning is essential in every success story. For college-bound students, the season for college applications is fast approaching. And with all the possible choices in courses...
Helping the Youth Fulfill their Dreams
High school senior Adrian wants to take up BS Mechanical Engineering in a prestigious university next year. He dreams of becoming an automotive expert. After all, he has always been fond of automobiles. But grown-ups say that if he doesn’t get his grades up, he could...
A New Service Industry Invented
Go to any school zone in Metro Manila today, and you’d surely pass by at least a couple of tutorial and review centers along the way. In the last three years or so, centers offering tutorial and test review services have gained increasing popularity. What used to be...
Getting the Youth Ready for the World
Various studies have found out that Filipino students are falling behind their Asian and western counterparts in science and mathematics. Now, students are falling behind even in their old turf, English. There are many “excuses” for this academic meltdown. But then,...
Mogul Moms
People By Joanne Rae M. Ramirez For someone who is at the forefront of one of the country’s leading review and tutorial centers, Rossana Llenado, 34, remembers a time when she would have wanted to be anything but a teacher. But almost two decades later, ironically,...
AHEAD Launches Big Bash at Glorietta, Celebrates Reviewees’ Success
Hundreds of people gathered recently at the Glorietta activity center in Makati for what turned out to be the first major youth event of 2002, the “Get Ahead Gimik @ Glorietta,” presented by Ahead Tutorial and Review Center (now a division of AHEAD Learning Systems,...