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The above mentioned programs that we have been doing for the last 3 years were pilot tested in Region III, VIII and CARAGA and are now being implemented other regions nationwide per my agreement with our Chairman.

And yet the increasing volume and speed flows - of person’s goods and ideas is not only inevitable, it is irreversible. Its effects are all pervasive, affecting not just markets and economic exchanges, but also political realities and alignments and, as our conference theme emphasized, also higher education.

 Doctoral research should add to knowledge but may include applied and practical research.

 Graduate students should be required to acquire writing skills before their write thesis/ dissertation.

 Graduate students should be assisted financially in thesis/ dissertation writing.

educational leadership and policy studies to prepare professionals to fill administrative, supervisory, and policy making roles; and psychology in education which prepares graduate students for leadership roles as educators, researchers, clinicians, counselors and practitioners.

2. Adragogical Principles in adult learning – Admittedly, pedagogy applies to child and adolescent learning and is the concern in the undergraduate teacher education. Adult learning, however requires a totally different set of principles. Applied to graduate teacher education, the following four (4) andragogical principles were found effective:

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In conclusion, may I reiterate: “becoming a professional teacher is not a destination; rather, it is a journey, a long journey; in fact, a lifelong journey.”

Most important was understanding and supporting the leadership style of the top administrators and establishing “big brother-small brother relationship” with SUC presidents.

On the second and third years we tried to have a more focused programs: Academic Research and Income Generating projects (IGP’s). The complementary relations between Instruction, research, extension and IGP5 were stressed.

Globalization, though accelerated and magnified by technological development, is by itself an emergent phenomenon. Some decades ago, a number of countries and even communities operated and developed quite independently of each other. Now, the ties that bind countries and societies are not only limited to the treaties and formal agreements, trade and information move through the international mass media.

The concept of TQM is best applied in the teacher education continuum starting with the baccalaureate program in secondary or elementary education and continuing to the graduate programs. This principle is implicit in CHED Memorandum Order No. 36, s. 1998, otherwise known as the Policies and Standards for Graduate Education. Section 2, Structure of Graduate Education, states: “Philippine graduate education shall, if feasible, be vertically articulated by discipline.

Huberman, Thompson, and Weiland in their article Perspective on the Teaching Career” proposed a chart of lifelong career for professional teachers. An adaptation of a lifelong career model is presented that can serve as guide in the development and continuing improvement of graduate teacher education.

 Stage 4: Growth and Enthusiasm Dissatisfaction

 Stage 5: Career Stability / Career Frustration

 Stage 6: Career Wind-down / Bitter Exit

CHED Executive Director Dr. Roger Perez offers a pragmatic definition: “Quality is not perfection. It is improving your previous best and showing that you are at the leading edge in most aspects”.

A second was a dissatisfaction of how parts of the world seemed to be so inadequately connected to each other. Many Frenchmen did not even know that the Philippines was or where it was; my knowledge of Europe was not much better. A garbled two-minute long distance call to my mother cost my father almost two weeks’ salary.

The British Higher Education Council admitted that quality is difficult to define but concluded that “quality is the central mystery of British Higher Education – a mystery in all variants of meaning and nuance of which the world is capable”.

consistently implemented in an organization from the highest officials cascading down the line of office staff, faculty, students, alumni, parents, employers and agencies with which the institution relates.

 Graduate teacher education includes a one-year, non-degree post bachelor’s program for non-education graduates to qualify them for elementary and secondary school teaching.

 The graduate teacher education degree program from Master’s to doctorate include three divisions: curriculum and instruction for teacher career advancement (M.Ed., M.S. in college Teaching, M.A. in Teaching);

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For instance, The Philippines Higher Education System at present is confronted with formidable challenges. It has to undergo radical transformation and renewal if it is to effectively play its unprecedented role in the present day society, and more so, to be a vital component of economic, technological and political development in the national and international scenario.

The 21st century has aptly been called the “century of inventions”, “technological developments” and “globalization”.

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My concluding thought comes from a recollection of a scene in a classic disaster move of a sinking ship. As the Titanic was going down, the waiters in it were still shuffling around arranging the dinner silverware and furniture in the professionalism which was their habit. As the huge ship of university systems in our countries navigates around the icebergs of cataclysmic changes in our societies, my plea is that we do not fritter out time away by re arranging our furniture and concentrate on saving and navigating our ships.

Virtual University – When Higher Education goes to Cyber Space - Commissioner Nona S. Ricafort

3. Lifelong Learning for Professional Teacher – In 1992, Feseler and Christensen concluded from empirical studies over a twenty-year period that teacher’s professional career passes through six stages:

 Stage 1: Preservice

 Stage 2: Induction

 Stage 3: Competency Building

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• Virtual University – Where Higher Education goes to Cyber Space – Nona S. Ricafort

• Total Quality Management in Graduate Teacher Education – Rosita L. Navarro

• The Changing Vision and Mission of Research in Higher Education Amidst Globalization – Victor Ordonez

A Sage once said “Whether we are conscious or not, education is the force that will, more than any other, shape the worlds future”. This new millennium has brought many challenging changes by leaps and bounds, most especially in the field of education.

When Benjamin Franklin was given the Outstanding Inventors Award, he said in his acceptance speech, he does not consider himself as an outstanding inventor inspite of the many inventions he has made. He would rather describe himself like a sponge that absorbs ideas from other people. The big difference is that he was able to put good use these ideas.

The challenge is ours, the work too is ours but let us remember, we are not alone to pursuit of what is offered in the world. Together let us all move on and make the difference.

In summary, education now and in the future, should strive to produce people who have all the principles and values that will empower them to be themselves, to design their own destiny, to make their own choices, to safeguard diversity and to live in harmony altogether.

According to Rosita L. Navarro, quality is a degree of excellence or relative goodness, so quality is not excellence per se but refers to the ascending degree of excellence - perhaps low quality, moderate quality, high quality. Even among items or objects with “high quality” one can have higher quality and another one may possess the highest quality. Management is getting things done through the efforts of others.

The great challenge to mankind, who are sharing one globe, critical for its survival and prosperity, is to think and work globally, as we are facing a global world where people are interdependent and where individuals of various origins, societies and cultures are bound to meet, to mix and to compete.

Most significantly, it is not only the Asia pacific region that is breaking out of its shell. We are increasingly aware of an inter-connected world, be it through telecommunications, the world wide web or trade and commerce. The so called economic miracle and increased prosperity in the region made us aware of the spin-offs of growth from other countries. Ironically, the financial crisis also made us aware of the contagion effect other countries would have on our very lives.

It was not my first cruise, but it brought back memories of my fist long boat ride, exactly fifty years ago, on a passenger liner with my father from Manila to France. It was a smaller boat, and slower, needing twenty-eight days to complete the journey. And I remember that, even at time, my ten-year-old mind brought back two lessons I have never forgotten:

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They are all important products of the century that you and I belong to and it would be hard to deliver quality and relevant education without them.

• SUCs as Leader in RPs Economic Development

• Ownership, Management, Uses and Commercialization Property Rights (IPR) – Edgardo J. Angara

 Adult learners prefer to be involved rather than just passively listening for extended periods of time.

 Adult learners need to be more self-directing

 Adult learners expect that their previous experiences and knowledge will be respected.

 Adult learners tend to be present, rather than future oriented.

There has been an incessant bombardment of new terminology, like internet ware, group ware, body neta, hyper organizers, digital libraries, virtual classrooms, chat rooms, automated tutors, cookies, portals, cyber cafes, e-commerce and cyber schools.

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Utilization of Knew Knowledge Will Make The Big Difference

It is not sufficient for future leaders to be well prepared only in the academic and technical fields but to be prepared also to think and act with global leadership qualities.

1. There is greater need than ever to undertake university research collaboratively, rather than individually

2. The determination of a university research agenda is becoming more policy maker driven and less researcher or institution driven

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• The Third Millenium Challenges to the Knowledge Builder of the Asia Pacific Region in 21st Century – Erlinda Pefianco

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Socrates was once asked: “Why is it that Alcibiades who is so brilliant and has traveled so widely, and has been so much of the world is still such an unhappy man?

Socrates answered: “It is because wherever he goes Alcibiades takes only himself with him.”

1. The learning continuum is fast becoming borderless, embracing a lifelong dimension, with the pace of the knowledge acquisition described as unprecedented.

2. Population growth is fast outpacing the world’s capacity to provide learning opportunities to individuals and groups. Mass participation in education needs to be addressed by the education sector.

This goes to show that the world we know it today, came about because of the advances and innovation in science and technology, the fast changing requirements of communications technology, the advances in computer, internet highway and virtual campuses.

Graduate programs shall emanate from strong undergraduate programs across all the higher education disciplines”. Consistent with this provisions are the requirement in section 3 that Level III accreditation of undergraduate programs shall be a major consideration in granting permit to open new graduate programs.

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The 21st century is called the age of 3C’s – Competition, Change, and Customer. To survive, educational institutions must implement changes geared toward this future society, continuously and rapidly so that customers of education, the students may compete in the world stage.

• Total Quality Management (TQM) in Graduate Teacher Education

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Ownership, Management, Use and Commercialization of Intellectual Property Generated from research and Development Funded by Government and for Other Purposes – Senator Edgardo J. Angara

And the paradigm shift requires fundamental changes in 3P’s – Persons, Processes and Products.

The bigger challenge now aside from building ICT awareness among the populace, is the issue of not really the demand for skill but the supply of skills.

It is in this critical period that the government’s education agenda must be aligned with this challenges. Education institutions aside from creating awareness of ICT, must also be encouraged to focus on the potential of technology, in designing and providing education based on the new learning needs of tomorrow’s world citizens.

3. Recognition of prior learning, accreditation and equivalency are approaches that are gaining substantial focus.

4. Work-specific and beyond the campus strategies deserve the educator’s attention

5. Distance education, open learning and other flexible systems are now recognized as having the capacity to provide access to lifelong education opportunities.

In the latest Global Competitiveness Index published by the World Economic Forum, the Philippines ranked 87th out of 134 countries. This is considerable drop of 16 places from last year’s 71st rank.

1. Global Perspective – In 1992, two internationally famous surveys of graduate education were conducted: Survey of the Masters Programs in the United States and Survey of the Doctoral Programs in English -speaking countries: Australia, Great Britain, Canada and United States.

It is noteworthy to acknowledge that our Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, in her 10-point government agenda declared, all public high schools to, at least have computer laboratories and all state universities and colleges to have internet cafes to have it accessible in the regions. This will enhance communications facilities. It is the universities and colleges that are expected to meet this challenge head on.

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3. University research must detach itself from single discipline focus, to involve systemic and inter-disciplinary perspectives

4. Most importantly, university research must focus on effectiveness issues rather that efficiency issues.

The first was a conviction, as I returned to my schooling in Manila, that I had learned more in that summer in France that in my first five years of formal schooling, good as that was. Learning to speak English slowly and clearly to foreign language speakers improved it; soaking in history from actual museums and monuments left indelible marks on my memory, frequent calculations converting different currencies honed my arithmetic skills, dealing with all sorts of people developed by social skills. As you see, I have become an avid traveler since.

Total Quality Management in Graduate Teacher Education –

Rosita L. Navarro

The common denominator of these countries is that the national productivity and growth are driven by technological innovation gained through advanced scientific research. Such innovation is backed by sufficient R&D investment, highly equipped research institutions, a dynamic academe-industry collaboration, a strong entrepreneurial drive, and well defined intellectual property right regime.

SUCs as Leaders in RPs Economic Development

Carlito S. Puno

 The highest concentration of enrollment and graduates was in teacher education.

 An overwhelming opinion is the need to improve the faculty advising, directing or supervising of thesis/dissertation writing.

• Total Quality Management (TQM) in the context of Teacher Education

To respond to this changing interdependent world, what is needed is clearly a new vision for education, not just for information dissemination, or for skilled development, or for citizenship, but for empowering individuals and communities to thrive and contribute by guiding this onslaught towards greater more equitable interdependence among communities and counties – in political, economic, and social economic spheres.

During my first year I had to orient myself with the situation in each of my SUCs, made some situational analysis as I did campus visits to these institutions. The first order of the day was doing “housekeeping” chores: streamlining the systems and procedures, organizational structure and staffing pattern.

Total is a word used to refer to the hole, the absolute, including everything and everyone. TQM therefore refers to a set of concepts, principles and activities of the highest degree of excellence actually practiced and

The Changing Vision and Mission of Research in Higher Education Amidst Globalization Victor Ordonez

To our SUC presidents and administrators, SUCs are not just meant for social development in other countries, they are playing the very important role in their economic development. In the past we have been so dependent on government funds. We have always been thinking on what the government can do for us, if we really want to have strong Republic, let us start thinking of what we can do for the government.

The survey is topped by Switzerland and followed by the US in close second. Singapore, Sweden and Denmark round out the top five. In South East Asia, we only bested Cambodia at 110th place. Our neighbors have overtaken us by a considerable length: Singapore #3, Malaysia #24, Brunei #32, Thailand #36, Indonesia #54 and Vietnam #75.

Of course my small ten-year old mind, could never have imagined the rapidity of scale with which interconnectedness has galloped over a last fifty years. And what alarms me, and what should alarm the university community as well, is something not spoken enough about: These changes will not be logical extrapolations of present trends; they will come from out of the blue, from out of a yet inchoate set of premise, they will be as it were “un-anticipatable” changes. The future is not what it used to be; changes will not just be quantitative, but qualitative. And our universities must prepare societies to handle these.

I have just become officially a senior citizen, marking my sixtieth birthday three weeks ago. Friends and relatives decided to mark the milestone with weeklong cruise to Alaska, with much fun and merriment.

This Time Let us Be Different, For Us To Make A Difference.

 Two common types of Master’s program were the traditional or ancillary also called the gatekeeper for the Ph.D. (M.A. / M.S.) because those who enrolled saw them as good preparation for the Ph. programs; and the second were the career advancement Master’s programs; client-centered and career oriented. (M.B.A. M.Ed. and M.P.A.)

It was at this point we visited South Korea, China and Hong Kong where we have now joint academic programs, faculty exchange and faculty development programs in Information Technology (IT) and engineering.

We started streamlining the operations of our IGPs and we took over the PASUC textbook writing program which is now generating additional income for our faculty writers aside from providing relevant and affordable textbooks for our students.

While technology is gradually changing the way people learn, teach and interact, its most pervasive effect is on the way people and societies earn their living.

Amidst rapid social change, globalization and technological development, the educator faces an oncoming millennium with a range of opportunities and challenges. A rapidly, changing world and changing societies are bound to impact on education, perhaps more than any other field of human endeavor.

Why the Philippine ranking in technology transfer trails far behind its Asian neighbors? We are disadvantaged in terms of innovation because of the weak transferring and commercializing of research and development results. Our research efforts are useless without the ability to transfer technologies – bringing them out of the job and finding practical, commercial uses of them.

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The Third Millennium’s Challenges to the Knowledge Builders of the Asia pacific Region

Erlinda C. Pefianco

The Asia Pacific Century

In a learning society with an increasingly boundary-les learning environment, one is hard to put to identity who are the stakeholders in education. Yet, the center of responsibility for guiding and managing the learning process must still fall on a given sector. Thus the term knowledge builder may be posited to more properly depict the institution group or individual primarily responsible for managing the learning process. We, the educator, can be regarded as the knowledge builders in the region.

The changing role of the teacher in the education process is a case in point. The teacher, once the walking repository of knowledge, experience and information, wielding the power to pass or fail students, must compete with a host of other information sources. The teacher in the coming information age should not only transmitter of facts and figures, but rather a guide in a student’s quest of learning.

These developments are most visible in the Asia Pacific region demonstrates the needs and its readiness to adapt to changing realities. The region has recorded unprecedented economic growth over the past two decades, with the highest levels recorded in Southeast and East Asia.

Thank you and God Bless!

What the great thinker meant was intelligence and worldwide travel are useless if not properly utilized – for the individual to be transformed so he himself can be an effective agent of developmental change.

In local scene some thirty years ago, we taught the Thailanders how to plant rice. In five years’ time, they became self-sufficient in rice an in another five years, they became the world’s number one exporter of rice.

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