The hosts of Hanseatic League of Universities
THIS article puts the spotlight on the four institutions of higher learning that hosted the 5th Conference of the Hanseatic League of Universities (HLU) held in ...
Hanseatic League of Universities
CENTURIES ago, the original Hanseatic League transcended borders to forge alliances rooted in trade, trust and forward-thinking collaboration. Inspired by this ...
Mayor Isko Moreno eats last
YEAH, Manila Mayor Isko Moreno always eats last. Literally. I noticed this during the six months that we were on the campaign trail during the 2022 national ele ...
Addicted and Unaware
WITHOUT the use of prohibited drugs, alcohol or gambling, one may be an addict. A new wave of addictive behaviors is emerging. The Diagnostic and Statistical M ...
The village that failed to educate Filipinos
FOR as long as politicians benefit from the miseducation and maleducation of the Filipinos — and the poverty of mind and life it brings — we cannot expect an en ...
Nests of excellence
Third of a series THIS is the third in a series of higher education institutions that celebrate their extraordinary achievements in their own special ways. They ...
Nests of excellence
THE graduates are the measure of excellence of schools, especially of higher education institutions. The board performance is one of the many indicators of this ...
Glimmer of hope in early childhood care and development
FLICKERING rays of hope glimmer in the silver lining amid the current state of Philippine education. The education crisis is here and real, but such alarm incit ...
Post-election: Life goes on as usual
THE election fever is not yet over. From being campaign strategists and propagandists for months, we have become political analysts. This is not at all wrong be ...
Ready to be governed by your inferiors?
PLATO's famous warning remains true to this time — that one of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your in ...
Insulted Filipinos and bastardized environment amid Election 2025
THIS Election 2025 is insulting the intelligence of the Filipinos, if there is intelligence left to begin with, and bastardizing the environment without regard ...
Franchising: Building success together
IN a world marked by uncertainty — trade wars, geopolitical tensions and inflationary pressures, among other challenges — we are reminded that if we work togeth ...
Matters of life and death
DEATH is not an experience in life (Ludwig Wittgenstein). Indeed, death is always described from the perspective of the living. How one perceives, thinks and fe ...
A framework for a meaningful personal branding
YOUR personal brand is your identity. This is how Boy Abunda opens the Prologue of the book, "Standing to Outstanding: A Framework for Meaningful Personal Brand ...
Standing to outstanding
THERE is so much loss among many men and women who have failed to optimize their value in their lifetime, not because they lack value but because they have miss ...
Beyond the four-way test: The enabling of leaders
THERE is more into the Rotary Club International than just the four-way test. It is an enabling environment for leaders. And if only all Rotarians will be true ...
The evil and good effects of political polarization
I WAS in Davao when former president Rodrigo Duterte was arrested, and I had a firsthand observation and interview of people around the city. Authentic emotions ...
WOMEN WINNING WARS FOR HUMANITY
SEX and gender is never an issue in our modern times, but in the spirit of the monthlong Women's Month celebration, here are empirical evidence on why women hav ...
Bandwagon effect: Science of stupid, again
WHEN birds fly together, they purposively either take advantage of the strategic aerodynamic V-shaped skein for ...
Elections and the science of stupid
IF you are really, really stupid, then it's impossible for you to know that you ...
Fixing the miseducation: A matter of survival
Fixing the miseducation: A matter of survival A PROBLEM well-stated is ...
Gambling. Devil’s masterpiece. Mental disorder
Gambling. Devil's masterpiece. Mental disorder GAMBLING disorder carries the highest ...
CHAOS: CHANCE AND CHOICE FOR CHANGE
THERE is just so much chaos in the global and in Philippine politics with so many moving parts that exhaust many of us. Polarized politicians h ...
JO KOY AND WHY SCIENCE SAYS THAT FUNNY PEOPLE ARE MORE INTELLIGENT
THIS article presents the sciences that point at the intelligence of the funny people. It celebrates comedy as probably the earliest entertainm ...
EARTH DIES BEFORE THE WARS OF THE HEGEMONS ARE EVEN OVER
AS nation states assert sovereignty and divide territories, they should urgently unite not to win war and alliances against each other but to e ...
The intelligence we need to be resilient
WHERE is resiliency when we continue to suspend work and classes due to bad weather conditions, instead of shifting to a mode proven effective ...
A silent epidemic called mental disorder
ALMOST one out of every five Filipinos suffers from a mental disorder in their lifetime. Almost 28 percent had a lifetime mental disorder at so ...
Beyond decor of the learning environment
THERE was a public stir when the Department of Education (DepEd) released the DO 21, s. 2023, and when Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte a ...
Art. Religion. Politics.
WHEN art enters religious territory, it can open new spaces of encounter that provoke, illuminate, challenge, and disturb (Quash and Lepine). This explains ...
10 airport ‘injustices’ we are getting used to
AIR passengers are getting used to just tolerating, and forgiving the air travel experiences that are causing unnecessary inconvenience and in ...
There is a Barbie in all of us
THIS is not a spoiler of director Greta Gerwig's colossal "Barbie" movie, which is still showing in theaters, and which has grossed more than $ ...
Language. Learning. Nationalism
LANGUAGE benefits from itself as it is called by many creative names — greatest invention and legacy of the human race; road map of a culture a ...
Warning: The potential evils of artificial intelligence
I AM interrupting the "Asian Century Series" to give way to this urgent warning on artificial intelligence (AI) which governments and humanity ...
Asian Century: Imagine the world without India
THIS column celebrates the Asian Century and shall feature a series of articles that amplify the contributions of the East to the universe and ...
Asian Century: Imagine the world without China
THIS column celebrates the Asian Century and shall feature a series of articles that celebrate the contributions of the East to the universe an ...
Who’s afraid of the open and digital world?
THIS article brings forward the disturbing speed of change in the digital world and social media and proposes the new set of human competencies ...
The mothers we love
MOTHERS are very special and most powerful beings in many life stories. Ancient Oriental Greco-Romans had a Great Mother of the gods named Cybe ...
Life lessons my kids taught me
OUR firstborn Lyca recently took the oath as a lawyer after passing the bar exams at the age of 23. After her induction into the legal professi ...
Philosophy and AI
There are several philosophical perspectives that can be applied to the use of artificial intelligence (AI), including:Ethics. AI raises ethica ...
Homo Deus and the artificial intelligence
THE human race evolved to become the Homo sapiens (from Latin "wise man") some 315,000 years ago in Africa. But unsatisfied with how its suprem ...
DQ: The intelligence of the present and future
PRIOR to the forced migration to the new (and better) normal of learning, the 21st-century learners were taught by 20th-century teachers in 19t ...
Cannibalizing the nursing curriculum
A DAY after the President ordered the Commission in Higher Education (CHEd) to offer solutions to the nursing shortage, a railroaded nursing cu ...
Islam and science
RAMADAN Mubarak!THIS article pays tribute to the fascinating practice of the Muslim faith and tradition, using science as the basis. The holy Q ...
Men are not weak, but women are strong
THE World Population Review website recently ranked the Philippines at 111 among 199 countries, with an average intelligence quotient (IQ) of 8 ...
Can never be won and must never be fought
FORMER US vice president Al Gore noted in his 2007 Nobel Prize acceptance speech that "scientists calculated that nuclear wars could throw so m ...
Can never be won and must never be fought
First of 2 partsTHE unseen coronavirus brought us into hiding and nearly paralyzed our modern world. Scientific advancement was caught by surpr ...
On mother tongue and physical torture
WHEN policies and public statements by government officials are not aligned with empirical evidence, they become unpleasant, disturbing and ala ...
PH is lowest in IQ. So what?
THE World Population Review website recently ranked the Philippines at 111 among 199 countries, with an average intelligence quotient (IQ) of 8 ...
VP Sara slayed the gray rhino in the classroom
VICE President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte slayed the gray rhino in the classroom last January 30 during the Basic Education Report 2023. This meta ...
Edcom 2: The gift of a second chance
LAST week's article, "The elephant, the rhino and the swan in the classroom" (https://www.manilatimes.net/2023/01/20/opinion/columns/the-elepha ...
The elephant, the rhino and the swan in the classroom
THE white elephant and the gray rhino were in the classroom, then the black swan joined them. And the classroom, the schools and education were ...