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The Silliman University National Writers Workshop (SUNWW) is an annual creative writing workshop that was established in 1962 by the late Edilberto K. Tiempo and National Artist for Literature Edith L. Tiempo of Silliman University.
The YWCA sponsors groups such as the Y-Buds which consists of elementary school girls, the Y-teens organized in secondary schools and the Student Y organized in colleges and universities. Furthermore there are the Young Professionals and the Adult Y'ers. There is also the Community Youth Club whose members could either be in school or out-of ...
It was the first university for women in Asia founded by Asians. From 1928 up to the outbreak of the World War II, Philippine Women's University introduced the following programs: Home Economics, Music and Fine Arts, Social Work, Nutrition, Pharmacy and Business. In 1938, a course in Social Civic training was incorporated into the curriculum.
This program encouraged Filipinos to obtain education in the United States and return to the Philippines. The first year of the program there were about 20,000 applicants with only one hundred of Filipinos men ultimately selected to study abroad in the United States. About forty boys and eight girls were chosen each year in 1904 and 1905. [10]
Women's colleges in the Philippines generally offer programs in all levels (from elementary up to graduate school). Most programs are available only for women. However, a few colleges allow male admissions, but only at the postgraduate level (i.e., master's and doctorate, continuing education courses, etc.)
The ineffectiveness of these schools will be seen when it is remembered that a school under the Spanish regime was a strictly sectarian, ungraded school, with no prescribed course of study and no definite standards for each year, and that they were in charge of duly certificated but hardly professionally trained or progressive teachers, housed ...
UP-NCPAG traces its roots to the Institute of Public Administration (IPA), which was established on June 15, 1952, after the University of the Philippines entered into an agreement with the University of Michigan in the United States to aid the former in providing technical assistance in the field of public administration as part of the Bell Mission's recommendations.
She obtained a degree in history from the University of the Philippines in Manila in 1917, and a master's degree the following year from the same university. Her thesis was a historical survey on the school education of women in the Philippines, a theme that proved apt in light of her later activism as a suffragette. [5]