Well, here is Cebuano bloggers something to look forward to. In preparation for the Mandaue Business Month 2008 in August, the Mandaue Chamber of Commerce and Industry recently launched the “Cebu Blog Contest”. The contest is open to all individuals, students, professionals and bloggers.
All you have to do is to create your blog and feature anything about Cebu and of course you should follow these rules:
Objective:
To let a hundred Cebu Blogs bloom.
Kwangwoon will grant scholarships to 10 universities for undergraduate and graduate degrees, according to Bonifacio Belen, executive director of the Cebu Education and Development Foundation for Information and Technology (CEDF-IT). More…
WHEN one sets foot on top of a mountain, the view before him is almost infinite.
This seems to be what two Cebuanos felt recently after taking the
top positions in the January 2008 Architects Licensure Examination held
in Manila. The two architecture, graduates of the University of San
Carlos, are Junel Villanueva and Roden Adam Abella. They copped second
and fouth places, respectively. And the opportunities are beginning to
appear before them like stars glittering in the night sky.
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Last Saturday, Cortes received in behalf of Mandaue City the buildings and facilities of what was until then the Mandaue campus of the Cebu State College of Science and Technology (CSCST) in Barangay (village) Looc. More…
SUGBUANON Na Ni, a radio program aired over dyAB ABS-CBN regional station every Sunday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., opened its doors to college students with a segment where they could air features about Cebu.
“We had two purposes in making the segment. One is to revitalize the program through featurettes’ and to give students a chance to have an outlet or venue for their learning,” Balbino “Ka Bino” Guerrero, one of the anchors of “Sugbuanon Na Ni,” said.More
The University of San Carlos College of Architecture and Fine Arts recently scattered the confetti for two of its freshest alumni.architecture graduates Joel Anthony C. Ong and Lloyd L. Marquez placed among the Top 10 in the eternally tough Architects Licensure Examinations held last June.Contrary to the common, outrageous I-was-not-expecting-to-pass-but-did-so-anyway tales, ninth placer Lloyd sincerely believed he had one of the top spots in the bag—until the decisive final exam day came. Read more…
The Department of Science and Technology-Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI) is now accepting applications for its Junior College S&T Scholarship.
The scholarship is given to 3rd year college students who are currently enrolled int he science and technology courses.
Eligible applicants must have a general weighted average of at least 83%; currently enrolled in any of the satte colleges and universities under Science and Technology; a Filipino Citizen; have no pending immigration application and a resident of the municipality in the last four years.
Interested applicant may get an application f orm from DOST Regional Office located at M.J. Cuenco Avenue, Banilad, Cebu City. Deadline of submission of application is on Sept. 21, 2007. Please call Rodel Maningo at 231-7024 for other details.
NINE students from five schools in Cebu City are in the top 10 list of examinees who took the nursing board exams last June. For at least one of them, it was a happy surprise after the ordeal of being ordered to take the exams again.
Of the nine, three are from Velez College, two each from Southwestern University (SWU) and University of Cebu (UC), and one each from the Cebu Normal University (CNU) and the Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC) College of Nursing. More…
Many Filipino doctors want to go abroad and earn
dollars but the only Cebuano in the top 10 of the 2007 Physician
Licensure Examination will stay in Cebu, working in a government
hospital.
Dr. Lily Mae Quevedo Dacay, 26, said she preferred working in a
government hospital because she felt she would find great fulfillment
in serving the poor.
Dacay who graduated from the Cebu Doctors’ University in 2006, is
the 8th placer in the Physician Licensure Examination, the results of
which were announced Wednesday by the Professional Regulation Commission.
She said she would apply for her residency at the government-run
Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) in Cebu City to
specialize in either obstetrics-gynecology or internal medicine.More.inq.net
TO ensure a steady supply of competent workers, a growing number of industry players have established links with the academe.
One of them is Toyota Motor Philippines Foundation Inc. (TMPFI).
To cope with the rise in demand for automotive technicians in Cebu, TMPFI collaborated with the College of Technological Sciences (CTS)-Cebu in the opening of the latter’s Bachelor of Science in Automotive Technology (BSAT) program.
“We guarantee employment for all BSAT graduates,” said TMPFI education section head Ronald Gaspar. More…
TO meet the annual demand of 1,500 entry-level software developers in the province, the Cebu Educational Development Foundation for Information Technology (Cedf-it) is now in the position to launch its Bridge Course Program (BCP) this September.
The BCP, considered to be the first in the Philippines, aims to meet the growing local demand for qualified software developers since it serves as a “tipping point†in bridging the gap between those who are hired and those who are deemed as second choices, said Cedf-it senior project manager Arnold Banogon.
Citing a survey by Cedf-it in 2006, he said only 600 information technology (IT) graduates are absorbed by companies. More…
With the integration of e-learning into the curriculum of the Center for Industrial Technology and Enterprise (CITE), students are now all excited to learn new concepts and skills related to their technology courses.
The e-learning modules developed by CITE in 1999 have been used by different school partners.
This school year, through the funds from the German Development Service, the school was able to convert some of its facilities into e-classrooms fully equipped with all-new browsing workstations.