Makati City is working out on becoming the country’s first wifi city. It gradually rolled out its plan by making Makati City hall a wifi spot last July 12.
Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) will be internet provider for the city’s proposed project.
Philippines is slightly behind by its Southeast Asian neighbor, with Vietnam’s Hoi An took the mantle as Asia’s first city to give free wifi to its residents last February.
Yes, you read it right! The phenomenal Jessica Sanchez the runner-up to Philip Phillips in the recently concluded American Idol.
Sanchez will join with the rest of former American Idol contestants for American Idol Live Tour 2012. It will be on September 21, 2012, 8:00pm at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.
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Asia News Network reported that 3 universities from Metro Manila were among in best English.
The full news item below:
Philippine universities among world’s best English-teaching schools
Manila (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) – Three Philippine Universities are among the top 50 universities in the world when it comes to teaching English according to a new survey by the London-based research and ratings firm Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).
In a statement sent to the Philippine Daily Inquirer, QS said the country’s specialist strength in the English language was affirmed in results of its latest World University Rankings by Subject, an index that rates universities across 29 disciplines.
Ateneo de Manila University posted the highest rating of all Philippine schools, ranking 24th in English language and literature. University of the Philippines ranked 32 while De La Salle University ranked 44th.
World-renowned universities in the United Kingdom and the United States took the top five spots (in this order): Cambridge, Harvard, Oxford, Yale and University of California Berkeley.
The specialist strengths of Philippine universities in English language and literature are clearly shown in these rankings. The country should be proud of their achievements,” Ben Sowter, QS research chief, said in the statement sent to the Inquirer.
The Philippines rated in only one other discipline, with UP placing within the 101-150 bracket in Geography.
QS ranked schools on 29 subjects based on academic reputation, employer reputation, and citations per paper,” QS said.
Amid strong showing in English, Philippine universities have been slipping in world rankings in the past few years.