Are you still believing or expecting a high quality of professional produced by University of the Phil?

Question

Billion of pesos (Taxes from the people), a huge amount of money used every year allocated to run these institutions, (8-Universities of the Phil.) and 25-State Universities & Colleges in the Philippines.

Answer 1

I agree with Urban Myth. Too much activism in UP and Fraternities and Sororities are should be banned.

Answer 2

It's the university culture. The years of martial law have left a spirit of activism as legacy, propagated by student organizations and alumni activists in every incoming batch of students.

I understand your concern. I too am not a fan of all the rallies and all the extremities that some UP students have resorted to doing. Believe it or not, some of them have destroyed property and assaulted people all in the spirit of the supposed patriotism and love for country. And don't let me get started on fraternities and sororities ... I will end up with a novel. Those organizations are social cancers disguised as righteous institutions continuously causing the decay of the young generation. If it were up to me, I would criminalize mere association. And yes, some students also take their time, dropping subjects or continuously failing, maxing out their 7-year residency before graduating, bleeding the state dry of its subsidy and becoming dead weight for the beleaguered philippine economy.

That being said, there are still a lot of good students in UP. Silently doing their part. Studying, getting good grades, doing what they are supposed to do in school. They eventually get good jobs, help support their families and become the backbone of the nation. We just don't hear about them, precisely because they don't go to the streets to shout or show up on tv to take swings at the government or die because of hazing or stay in UP for 7 years, long enough for people to notice them.

Keep the faith.

Answer 3

Yeah.  Of course.

Am not a graduate of U.P.    More like from the Pamantasan Ng Lansangan Ng Maynila.

And looking back all those years when I learned nothing but how to make pillboxes,  I could only envy those who did learn something.

I also know a guy who graduated with honors from the UP (University of Pangasinan) and who was turned down by the CitiBank just because his rival came from Ateneo.   If he came from the real U.P., he would have had a fighting chance.

Answer 4

The UP kids are very talented.

However, it annoys me that some of them spend more than 5 years in college (I know a few) and some of them migrate to the U.S. after graduating. It's very unfair.

Answer 5

urban said it well. u of P reminds me of University of California -Berkley in the late 1960. they were so dedicated to protesting the Vietnam war and anything else the government did that they never did anything constructive. Like the U of P now they got to the point that they would protest everything. Many employers back then started to disregard any job applicate from Berkley. The professors are the same way, they are so anti government that they seem brainwashed, unable to think clearly for them selves. and unfortunately they past that on to the students.