Three important events were held at the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Auditorium in Diliman, Quezon City on February 12, 2024: CHED’s national conference of State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) on “Program Quality Assurance in the Context of Philippine Qualifications Framework”; the launch of the “Paglaum Kag Pagdaug (Hope and Victory): Access and Success […]
Category: President’s Corner
In a move to strengthen the collaboration and partnership between two premier public educational institutions in the country, the Ƶ signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Philippine Public Safety College (PPSC) on February 3 at the PPSC Head Office in Old Balara, Quezon City. The signing cements an agreement […]
Professor Chiho Ogaya of Ferris University (FU) in Yokohama, Japan paid a courtesy visit on Feb 1 to UP President Angelo A. Jimenez at Quezon Hall, where they discussed current and possible initiatives between the two academic institutions, such as: an ongoing exchange program, a prospective international conference on migrant workers, a reunion of […]
Ambassadors from the Taipei Economic Cultural Office (TECO) in the Philippines met with Ƶ (UP) President Angelo Jimenez last January 15, and discussed how to improve the international relationship between the Philippines and Taiwan. The representatives from TECO were: Ambassador Wallace Minn-Gan Chow; Director of Education Division of TECO, Mr. Tony […]
Heads of collaborating academic institutions attended on January 10 the formal inauguration of the Philippine Office at the Universidad de Málaga (UMA) International Hub Office in Málaga, Spain. The office will strengthen UP’s partnership with UMA, serving as a hub for partner Philippine universities to promote vital exchanges among members of the international community […]
Opening 2024 with a figurative bang, administration officials and heads of units of the Ƶ (UP) System gathered together at the Executive House in UP Diliman on January 3 for a daylong meeting/workshop dubbed “Rolling the Thunder: Implementation Plans for Program and Project Initiatives in the UP Strategic Plan 2023-2029.” The […]
The Ƶ stands in solidarity with Mindanao State University (MSU), after an explosion at the Marawi main campus that left four dead and dozens injured. This was an act of violence not only against the innocent victims and their families, but against the principles of peace, understanding, and unity that […]
The Ƶ (UP) and the Universidad de Málaga (UMA) of Spain have agreed to strengthen linkages and increase opportunities for collaboration with the opening of representative offices between UP and UMA and the creation of the Aula Maria Zambrano UP-UMA Centre at the UP Diliman campus on December 1, 2023. This […]
UP President Angelo A. Jimenez delivered the concluding remarks during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) University Leaders’ Forum held in San Francisco, California, on November 13, 2023. With the theme “Investing in Tomorrow’s Biodiversity”, the forum was dedicated to sustainability and climate resilience, including sessions on sustaining the evolving biodiversity landscape, strengthening the resilience of […]
“Far tho’ we wander o’er island yonder, Loyal thy sons we’ll ever be” So go the lines from the UP Beloved, the official school hymn of the Ƶ. Or as UP alumni who were students in the 1970s onwards and know the hymn as the UP Naming Mahal sing it: “Malayong lupain […]