New Zealand plans to woo more foreign students
New Zealand on Thursday announced a multi-million-dollar marketing push to attract more foreign students — especially from Asia — to its universities.
New Zealand on Thursday announced a multi-million-dollar marketing push to attract more foreign students — especially from Asia — to its universities.
Two Filipino law students, Janeca Naboya and Gian Miranda, attended last month the largest development conference in Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. The conference theme was “The End of Development? Why International Development Must Adapt or Fail.”
There’s a strong chance that lightning will strike in UP Diliman on Sunday. One hit UP Manila a week ago when students briefly held a protest during the commencement exercise.
It’s official–Itliong-Vera Cruz Middle School will be the first school in the nation named after Filipino-American heroes. After facing months of campaigning by the Fil-Am community, the New Haven Unified Board of Education on Tuesday night approved the renaming of Alvarado Middle School to Itliong-Vera Cruz Middle School, effective September 2015.
Filipino-American students will celebrate Filipino heritage and the Fil-Am experience by staging Skyline College Kababayan Program’s 8th annual Pilipino Cultural Night.
Recently, a cache of 2.5 million files was leaked to the media, files that named holders of offshore bank accounts, mostly in the Caribbean, and shell companies of those attempting to dodge taxes.
Twenty-three Bruneians attended the Filipino language class opened recently by the Universiti Brunei Darussalam’s (UBD) Language Centre.
Hana Isabella Raj E. Hautea was one of the first batch of students when the course Wika, Kasaysayan at Kulturang Filipino was started at the Philippine Embassy here five years ago.
The Filipino community in this city will have to wait until next month to see if their middle school will be the first U.S. school named after two Filipino American heroes–labor leaders who were part of the historic strike that changed labor laws.
An 18-year-old freshman Filipino American student was practicing a ‘”traditional Filipino dance” when he landed on his head Saturday evening, March 2, and died in a hospital the following day, according to Lori W. Fogleman, director of media communications of Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
Two pictures. One features an old man, sitting on a bed in a decrepit apartment.
