Canadian Filipino Net - Informing, Engaging and Connecting Community

Canadian Filipino Informing, Engaging and Connecting Community

Philippine Ambassador Rodolfo Robles Promotes Credential Recognition on Visit to Victoria

“There are many Filipinos in Canada who completed nursing degrees in the Philippines and had years of nursing experience but who are working as home caregivers or nursing aides here. They are not practicing the professions they were trained to do.
Aspiring Canadian Filipino lawyers can pursue dream with Scotiabank scholarship

One of Canada’s biggest banks has launched a scholarship program for students wanting to become lawyers and champions of anti-racism.
Thirteen Reasons Why Our Children Should Stay In School

One of the most heartbreaking trends, observe our Filipino service providers and youth workers in Canada,
A Call for Canada’s MLAs and MPs to Adopt a Universal Tuition-Free Higher Education

The effects of the mid1980s neoliberal policy of privatizing social services such as higher or postsecondary education have been widely felt in North America,
The Trend from Academic Degrees to Vocational Education for Employment in the Philippines

Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide;
Winnipeg school runs first Filipino bilingual program

A Filipino bilingual program, believed to be the first in Canada, is now being offered by Manitoba’s Seven Oaks School Division at its Arthur E. Wright Community School in Winnipeg from kindergarten to Grade 3.
Why are better educated Filipinos among the lowest paid workers in Canada?

More questions spring from that headline question above: 1) what ranks as the Filipinos’ choicest job?
The Promise of Education as an Equalizer in the Philippines

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.Horace Mann
The Value of Education to Society

Education is more than a luxury; it is a responsibility that society owes to itself: Robin Cook
Does Education serve as an equalizer for Filipinos in Canada?

This question segues to the more intricate nature of education as a leveler for Filipinos in Canada, and leads to a number of proofs as to how Philippine-earned credentials proffer a level-playing-field.
Stereotyping and racialization, a constant Canadian Filipino struggle

Editor: In February of this year, a possible strike and walk-out by custodial staff was averted when a tentative deal was struck between union and management at the Capilano University.
Funding cuts to education hurt students and the community

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