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Tag: UP

  • Categories FACT CHECK FB FC

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Quote card of ‘Iska’ on ROTC is NOT TRUE

    By VERA Files  |  Aug 02, 2022 10:49 AM

    Several Facebook (FB) groups and pages are spreading a fabricated remark attributed to a “University of the Philippines (UP) student” on the proposed revival of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program. The fake quote first appeared on a satirical FB page. The quote card initially came out on July 28 and featured the alleged […]

    ROTC, UP

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    Categories Editor's Pick Marcos Files News

    The military’s obsession with UP: some historical notes

    By Miguel Paolo P. Reyes, Joel F. Ariate, and Larah Vinda Del Mundo  |  Jan 28, 2021 3:07 PM

    Toting long firearms and with the media in tow, without any coordination with either the proper authorities of the University of the Philippines (UP) or barangay officials, the military trucks rolled inside UP Diliman to the Materials Recovery Facility in Pook Amorsolo and the gardens in Pook Village B and Pook Arboretum noontime of Jan. 20, 2021.

    military obsession, University of the Philippines, UP

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    Categories FACT CHECK

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Oblation Run photo ALTERED, not a protest vs communists

    By VERA Files  |  Jan 26, 2021 10:33 AM

    The original photo showed the demonstrators raising blank plywood signboards.

    cpp npa, CPP-NPA-NDF, Oblation Run, UP

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    Slow procurement delays graduation of state-funded science scholars

    May 09, 2013 1:55 PM

    By DARLENE CAY, VINCE NONATO, RALPH TY, ADRIENNE ADRE and CHARRY ESPINO (First of two parts) GRADUATE student Jose Castillo was one of the tens of thousands of students expecting to graduate late last month from the University of the Philippines in Diliman. After all, except for this thesis, he had completed all the requirements […]

    Department of Science and Technology, DOST, Education, Engineering, Engineering Research for Development and Technology, ERDT Program, Procurement, University of the Philippines, UP, UP College of Engineering

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    10 things UPCAT takers should know

    Aug 03, 2012 5:31 AM

    YOU are aware that the University of the Philippines is the country’s national university. And according to the international research organization Quacquarelli Symonds Intelligence Unit’s (QSIU) report on Asia’s top universities, UP is the best university in the country. As your research will tell you, many of the nation’s movers and shakers graduated from this […]

    University of the Philippines, UP, UPCAT

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