“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
--John Dewey
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY -- Iloilo City Tourism Officer Junel Ann Divinagracia assured the Filipino-American community as well as businessmen, students, and potential investors here that Iloilo City has some of the best colleges and universities in the Philippines even as she joined University of the Philippines in the Visayas (UPV) Vice Chancellor Mary Ann Gumban and West Visayas State University (WVSU) College of Communications dean, Dr. Carmencita Robles, in the panel to convince the audience that Iloilo City’s school system offers quality learning, exhorting them to “study” in Iloilo City.
Promoting Iloilo City’s schools is part of the main agenda in the trade mission spearheded by the Philippine Council of Management (Philcoman) Research Institute, Inc with a theme, “Invest, Work, Create, Study, Retire, Live, and Grow” in Iloilo City.
“Ilonggo students are always among the top examinees in national board examinations these past years,” Divinagracia said during the panel discussion on Iloilo City’ premier schools in the New York leg of the Iloilo Trade Mission and Investment Forum June 4-10, 2018.
QUALITY
This can be attributed, she said, in the quality of programs and education being offered by Iloilo City schools.
Iloilo City is considered as the educational hub in Western Visayas, with potential for growth and home to 28 public and private colleges and universities.
Robles, for her part, reiterated that WVSU, formerly known as Iloilo Normal School, is a center of excellence in teacher education and center of development in nursing.
The Diamond Jubilee in 1999, she said, was ushered in by the offering of more academic programs: the Bachelor in Cooperatives Management in 1997 and the Bachelor of Science in Information Management and Bachelor of Science in In formation Technology in 1998.
She explained that the Higher Education Modernization Act (1997) integrated into the University four CHED supervised schools in Calinog, Janiuay, Lambunao, and Pototan in 2000.
Some of the best Filipino nurses in the United States today are graduates of the WVSU College of Nursing, Robles said.
Gumban said UPV offers Bachelor’s, Master’s and Certificate programs.
She identified the College of Management, and the CAS Division of Professional Education as the two degree-granting units that remain in Iloilo City Campus.
The U.P. High School in Iloilo (formerly U.P.V. High School) is also on campus.
STRATEGIES
The High School is an experimental laboratory for innovative teaching strategies designed to provide academic training for underprivileged students in order to better prepare them for access to tertiary education in the University of the Philippines.
The panel emphasized that it is in Iloilo City where the Philippines’ topnotchers are found like the Central Philippine University (CPU), which is a Center of Excellence in Agriculture and Business Administration; and a Center of Development in Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.
The University of San Agustin has been hailed as the Center of Development in Teacher Education.
The COE/COD programs are subsidized by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) with assistance given to research, faculty development, library and laboratory facilities.
Mayor Jose Espinosa III said the UPV Iloilo Campus is the only school in the country with a jail inside because the property, formerly owned by the City Government, was donated to the UP.
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