Just as Filipino families with financial means often send their children to prestigious schools abroad, the presence of foreign students in Philippine colleges and universities may be seen as a welcome development that indicates our country’s standing as a center of academic excellence. The revenue from abroad has helped the economy as well, with little Korea towns sprouting around universities in Luzon and the Visayas to cater to the sizeable number of Korean students. Hosting foreign
It was in late 1973, at the freshly established Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) at Tagaytay City, that I saw the term “social indicators” for the first time. It was on the draft research agenda of Onofre D. “OD” Corpuz, the first DAP president. I was with several professors of the University of the Philippines (UP), invited by OD for an overnight stay, to see if we would like to help him out in some way. I said I would be interested in social indicators if poverty measurement was part of it; happily, it was. OD appointed me to direct
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