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Beleaguered Health Secretary Francisco Duque III found himself in the limelight again last week in the wake of remarks made before President Duterte and which was broadcast by many television, radio and online outfits.

IN THE recent hearings on the ABS-CBN franchise renewal at the House of Representatives (HOR), the chairman of the Committee on Good Government and Accountability – Rep. Jose Antonio R. Alvarado-Sy (1st District, Bulacan)

I am often averse to books with title covers filled with texts in varying sizes, recommendation stamps and call-to-action what-not's. This book? It has all of those. This pandemic can really force you to prefer things beyond the usual "you".

Way back in 1987, a history professor titillated my imagination and challenged my previous knowledge on Philippine history by posing this observation: “Why do your teachers in elementary and high school keep asking quiz questions like: ‘Who is the Joan of Arc of the Visayas?’ or ‘Who is the Joan of Arc of the Philippines?’ Why? Do the French ask their students, who is the Teresa Magbanua or Gabriela Silang of France?”

Flexible learning was a theme that Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Chairperson J. Prospero E. De Vera III underscored in his online talk in the morning of June 2. Organized by CHED Region 1 Office in light of CHED’s 26th founding anniversary, the talk was entitled “Reshaping Philippine Higher Education” and was apparently meant to help clarify matters on how higher education should be approached under the reality of a pandemic here in our country.