From left: UP Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs (Faculty Development) Ian Kendrich Fontanilla; Dr. Jack Tsao of the University of Hong Kong; Dr. Edizon Fermin, chair of the Commission on Higher Education Technical Panels on General Education, Teacher Education, and Graduate Teacher Education; UP Diliman College of Fine Arts Dean Abdulmari “Toym” […]
Tag: General Education
Key administrators, faculty members, and academic leaders from all constituent universities of the UP System gathered at the UP Diliman Institute of Biology auditorium for the UP System General Education Conference 2026. Photo by Misael Bacani, UPS-MCO. The University of the Philippines Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs organized the UP System General […]
The University of the Philippines Center for Education and Development, a recently-established unit under the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, organized a panel discussion on general education, May 22 at the Institute of Biology, UP Diliman. The discussion featured Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Martin Hayden of the Southern Cross University […]
Since assuming office as Faculty Regent in January, I have found our university community immersed in critical conversations on curricular reform and faculty welfare. At face value, these may seem like two separate institutional concerns — one pedagogical, the other linked to career progression. But both, along with other issues that have not gained the […]





