Ranhilio Aquino on the State of Graduate Education in the Philippines
The woeful state of graduate education
I USED to be convinced that primary education was the weakest link in the Philippine system of institutionalized education. I have since changed my mind, and I am now convinced that education in our graduate schools is. That graduate schools are a dime a dozen is evident and is deplorable, except to those who profit from the proliferation of graduate schools. Because the master’s degree is the basic requirement for teaching in the tertiary level, there has been a rush to obtain quickly, effortlessly and cheaply MA and MS degrees. I have no quarrel with making graduate education accessible; I am all for it. If quality graduate schools can be set up in the countryside by state universities and colleges, no matter how distant from Manila, may such institutions flourish! After all, I have never looked up to Manila as the seat of wisdom! The problem, however, is that almost any nondescript college or university reckons itself entitled to offer PhDs and MAs. When in one year, a provincial college or university confers a stupefying number of PhD’s, then I greatly fear that we have only added to the alarmingly lengthening roster of quack-doctors! Click here to read the full essay.
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