Category Archives: Personal Views

No More Taxes on Private Education, Please

Posted on September 3, 2018 by Joel Tabora, S.J.

It is not a good idea to burden private education with more with new taxes. If government needs more money for its Build! Build! Build! ambitions, it should not get this from institutions build! build! build!ing the nation’s leadership and … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal Views, Uncategorized | Tagged private education, Private schools, TAX, Taxation, Taxes, TRABAHO, TRAIN2 | Leave a comment

Taxation for Catholic Schools?

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Joel Tabora, S.J.

Answers to Questions Raised by Ms. Consuelo Marquez of the Staff of The Varsitarian, the official student publication of the University of Santo Tomas Why should the government not impose tax in church-run schools amid clamor from the public that … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal Views | Tagged Catholic Schools, Tax Exemption, Taxation | Leave a comment

Dispute Between the Bishop of Bacolod and St. John’s Institute (Huaming) and Its Implications for CEAP and ECCCE

Posted on February 1, 2018 by Joel Tabora, S.J.

Fr. Joel Tabora, S.J. President, CEAP The yet unresolved public dispute between His Excellency, Most Rev. Patricio Buzon, Bishop of Bacolod, and St. John’s Institute (SJI), also known as Huaming (Lux, Light), necessitates a clarificatory discussion of the juridical personality … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal Views | Tagged Canonical Understanding of the Catholic School, Dispute Between Bishop Buzon and SJI, Ecclesiastical Mission of Catholic Schools, Expected Support of Bishops for Catholic Schools, Gravissimum educationis, public ecclesiastical juridic person, SJI, SJI’s Alleged Loss of its Catholicity, St. John’s Institute | 2 Comments

Death in the Air

Posted on September 5, 2017 by Joel Tabora, S.J.

If the recent news has been giving you a sense of dread, it is because death is in the air. First, in deadly airs of self defense. North Korea has been firing missiles into the air in self-defense – against … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal Views | Tagged American UN Ambassador Haley, begging for war, Donald Trump, Kim Jung-un, North Korea, South Korea, THAAD Missiles, Thermal High Altitude Area Defense Missiles, thermo-nuclear device, with fire and fury | Leave a comment

Funding For RA 10931, But the Greater Challenge is Quality

Posted on August 22, 2017 by Joel Tabora, S.J.

The 85th Anniversary of the Philippine Association of the Colleges and Universities (PACU) gathered together some of the most distinguished educators of the country in the Ballroom of the Conrad Hotel. Celebration was in the air not only because at … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal Views | Tagged 85th Anniversary, COCOPEA, PACU, Philippine Association of the Colleges and Universities, Philippine Higher Education, Quality Higher Education, Sen. Ralph Recto, UAQTEA, universal access, Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act | Leave a comment

Seventeen. Kian was just seventeen.

Posted on August 20, 2017 by Joel Tabora, S.J.

I was seventeen when I decided to join the Jesuits. Some today may think that that was much too early to make a radical life decision, that there were too many other possibilities in life that I ought first to … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal Views | Tagged CAID, EJK, Justice for Kian!, Kian Lloyd Delos Santos, War on Drugs | Leave a comment

The UniFAST Board Must Implement RA 10931 In Its Entirety

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Joel Tabora, S.J.

As CHED Chair Dr. Patricia Licuanan is convening the expanded UniFAST Board in order to craft the implementing rules and regulations (IRRs) for the Universal Access to Tertiary Education Act (#UAQTEA or RA 10931), I would like to recall the … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal Views | Tagged #EAQTEA, Access to Higher Education, COCOPEA, IRR of RA10931, PASUC, Quality Assurance, Quality Higher Education, RA 10931, Student Loan Program, Universal Access to Quality Higher Education Act, Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act | Leave a comment

Category Archives: Personal Views

No More Taxes on Private Education, Please

Taxation for Catholic Schools?

Dispute Between the Bishop of Bacolod and St. John’s Institute (Huaming) and Its Implications for CEAP and ECCCE

Death in the Air

Funding For RA 10931, But the Greater Challenge is Quality

Seventeen. Kian was just seventeen.

The UniFAST Board Must Implement RA 10931 In Its Entirety

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