Raul Pangalangan: A plea for public funding for SUCs - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

"WE MUST see state universities not as burdens upon the public coffers but rather as investments in the nation’s future. While the Aquino administration has increased the overall budget allocation for education to 3 percent of GDP, higher than that of the Arroyo administration, state universities and colleges will suffer draconian cuts in their budget—for the University of the Philippines alone, a cut of some P1.39 billion or 20 percent of its budget. There is still time to rectify and revise this, and I address this plea to the Senate and eventually the bicameral conference of the two houses of Congress. We should also find ways, if at all possible, to make poor but deserving students qualify for the Conditional Cash Transfer Program, or parallel programs that can empower poor students to take charge of their lives."

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Former U.P. Law Dean Pangalangan on the Supreme Court decision regarding plagiarism: "The latest injustice to the comfort women": opinion.inquirer.net

"PROF. HARRY Roque was reading the Supreme Court’s decision in the case that he filed in behalf of the comfort women, and he felt that certain passages looked eerily familiar. He then instructed a young associate in his firm, the Roque Butuyan Law Offices, to check out these passages in the Internet.

Romel Bagares, the associate, was shocked to find entire pages filled with text lifted verbatim—not just from the body of the article but also the footnotes—from three academic articles published abroad, and all these without making it clear to the reader that the text was not original to the ponente, Justice Mariano C. del Castillo."
 
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Former UP Law Dean Pangalangan on the Supreme Court decision re plagiarism "The latest injustice to the comfort women": opinion.inquirer.net