THE Scientific Career System (SCS) conferred to Mudjekeewis Dalisay Santos of the National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI) the rank of Career Scientist 5, the first in the Philippines.
IN a more enlightened period of advanced education in the Philippines, graduate schools required students, especially for doctorate degrees, to learn a foreign language. I was vice dean of the Graduate School of the University of Santo Tomas and aside from Spanish, we offered French and German.