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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 […]

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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.

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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.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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