By LUCKY MAE F. QUILAO
Published February 10, 2021 3:53pm A former student of the University of the Philippines-Visayas who is now based in Australia would still recommend studying at the school in face of the negative image it has been portrayed recently by security forces. “I will still proudly recommend the UP System and its mode of education to others. I will never see the human individual, the society, and the whole world this way had it not been for the UP education and the extra-curricular activities it has offered,” shared Gereon Ardivilla, a 49-year-old Filipino-English language translator and interpreter at the South Australian Department of Human Services.
DILG, UP to hold meeting to discuss 1992 agreement By ANNA FELICIA BAJO, GMA News
Published February 2, 2021 11:40am The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the University of the Philippines will hold a meeting this week to review their 1992 agreement. In a press statement Tuesday, the DILG ensured that it would not unilaterally abrogate its deal with the University without consulting concerned officials. “Contrary to a report that came out in a broadsheet, the DILG wants to hold a dialogue with UP officials to revisit the 1992 agreement. For the record, what we said was that there is a need to review the 1992 agreement requiring the PNP to notify UP authorities before entering its campuses,” DILG spokesman Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya said.
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has ordered the relief of Armed Forces Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence Major General Alex Luna after an "erroneous list" of alleged members of the New People's Army killed by the state forces was published.
By ERWIN COLCOL, GMA News
Published January 27, 2021 10:47am Two more measures have been filed at the House of Representatives to institutionalize the provisions of the 1989 pact between the University of the Philippines (UP) and the Department of National Defense (DND) to the university s Charter as well as for all other academic institutions. The House Makabayan bloc, led by Kabataan party-list Representative Sarah Elago, filed the two bills on Wednesday, around two weeks after the DND unilaterally terminated the three-decade-old UP-DND Accord. LOOK: Makabayan Bloc files two House bills institutionalizing the UP-DND Accord in the UP Charter, and in all academic institutions, private and public @gmanewspic.twitter.com/UKzmn8UQW5 Erwin Colcol (@erwincolcol) January 27, 2021
The Senate on Tuesday adopted a resolution supporting the pending dialogue between the Department of National Defense (DND) and the University of the Philippines (UP) to address the recent unilateral abrogation of the accord which prohibits the entry of state forces in the premiere state university's campuses.