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The Philippines Destination for Foreign Students
« on: June 26, 2010, 04:35:39 PM »
By Francis M. Bilowan

The Philippines remains a favorite destination for foreign students as the Bureau of Immigration (BI) reported a 20-percent increase in the number of foreigners who were issued study visas by the bureau for current school year 2010-2011.

In a report to Immigration Commissioner Marcelino Libanan, BI student desk head Teodulo Estrada said that as of June this year, a total of 6,416 foreign students were issued student visas by his office for this year’s first semester, compared to the 5,343 who enrolled in the same period last year.

Estrada said the figures were still tentative and would surely go up further as there were still hundreds of foreign students processing their visa applications with his office.

“And these figures only pertain to foreign students who applied for visas at our main office,” said Estrada, as he disclosed that BI field offices outside of Metro Manila were also authorized to accept and process student visa applications.

He said that aside from the BI main office, there has been a steady increase in student visa applications filed with the bureau’s field offices in key cities such as those in Cebu, Baguio , Davao , Angeles, and Iloilo.

Estrada said that language schools in the country have the most number of foreign students, followed by the different state universities and colleges.

“Cebu and Baguio City have the most number of foreign students,” Estrada said.

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Re: The Philippines Destination for Foreign Students
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2010, 05:10:36 PM »
During my time in ateneo, daghang mga arabo nangiskwela ug AB for pre medicine, I met one after 22 years in Paris, I never thought he would still recognize me.

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Re: The Philippines Destination for Foreign Students
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2010, 05:56:36 PM »
sa UV Cebu, daghang taga Middle East nikuha ug Architecture (by module), kay ang rason, mga ngilngig daw ang Pinoy nga archi nga tua sa ME nag trabaho. :)

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Re: The Philippines Destination for Foreign Students
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2010, 02:32:50 AM »
With the influx of foreign students in the country, I will not be surprised if in the future our graduates will have nowhere to find employment.  Year after year, we are producing diploma mills; where our graduates are forced to work in labor or if not domestic help in foreign lands. Time comes this will not even available because they will be hiring their own. Typical example is the hiring of nurses in the US.

In one of my visits to Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam in the 90’s, I asked an official of the Ministry of Agriculture what made them top producer of rice in Asia, where, at that time we were heavily importing rice from Vietnam. He told me, “They are sending their scientists and technocrats to study and train in the Philippines and applied what they learned in their country."

The answer slapped me.


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Re: The Philippines Destination for Foreign Students
« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2010, 03:04:20 AM »
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With the influx of foreign students in the country, I will not be surprised if in the future our graduates will have nowhere to find employment.  Year after year, we are producing diploma mills; where our graduates are forced to work in labor or if not domestic help in foreign lands. Time comes this will not even available because they will be hiring their own. Typical example is the hiring of nurses in the US.

In one of my visits to Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam in the 90’s, I asked an official of the Ministry of Agriculture what made them top producer of rice in Asia, where, at that time we were heavily importing rice from Vietnam. He told me, “They are sending their scientists and technocrats to study and train in the Philippines and applied what they learned in their country."

The answer slapped me.


Look on the bright side mam.  Be proud nga naa tay antudlu-an.  Pareha bag maestra nga kung ang iyang estudyante is doing good proud pod moingon nga estudyante nako na. hehehe.  Pasagdi na lang nang wala mapply pa ato kay matod pas pikas thread life is unfair daw hehehe.

mang graduate lagi na sila sa ato. pero  hiron ra gihapon mo sa mga foreigners kay lahi baya atong work attitude.  Typical example is the hiring of nurses in the US.  ;D

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Re: The Philippines Destination for Foreign Students
« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2010, 03:36:14 AM »
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Look on the bright side mam.  Be proud nga naa tay antudlu-an.  Pareha bag maestra nga kung ang iyang estudyante is doing good proud pod moingon nga estudyante nako na. hehehe.  Pasagdi na lang nang wala mapply pa ato kay matod pas pikas thread life is unfair daw hehehe.

mang graduate lagi na sila sa ato. pero  hiron ra gihapon mo sa mga foreigners kay lahi baya atong work attitude.  Typical example is the hiring of nurses in the US.  ;D

Forgive me I don’t mean to offend you.  Of course there is another side of the coin, the bright side of it.  They contributed to the economic activities of the country. But we should be looking into long term here. Admittedly, the global demands for Filipino professionals are weakening as you can tell because of this trend.



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Re: The Philippines Destination for Foreign Students
« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2010, 04:20:13 AM »

In one of my visits to Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam in the 90’s, I asked an official of the Ministry of Agriculture what made them top producer of rice in Asia, where, at that time we were heavily importing rice from Vietnam. He told me, “They are sending their scientists and technocrats to study and train in the Philippines and applied what they learned in their country."

The answer slapped me.


Syempre! dahil nasa atin ang IRRI or International Rice Research Institute. ang kaso lang ay hindi pinapahalagahan ng gobyerno natin ang agrikultura kaya milya-milya na ang layo ng mga karatig bansa natin sa ASEAN. ang mga palayan natin ginagawang subdivision kaya hanggang ngayon umaangkat pa rin tayo ng bigas sa kanila. ang mga karatig bansa natin ay sa atin natuto dahil nasa Los Baños ang IRRI.

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Re: The Philippines Destination for Foreign Students
« Reply #7 on: June 27, 2010, 06:59:25 AM »
By Francis M. Bilowan

The Philippines remains a favorite destination for foreign students as the Bureau of Immigration (BI) reported a 20-percent increase in the number of foreigners who were issued study visas by the bureau for current school year 2010-2011.

In a report to Immigration Commissioner Marcelino Libanan, BI student desk head Teodulo Estrada said that as of June this year, a total of 6,416 foreign students were issued student visas by his office for this year’s first semester, compared to the 5,343 who enrolled in the same period last year.

Estrada said the figures were still tentative and would surely go up further as there were still hundreds of foreign students processing their visa applications with his office.

“And these figures only pertain to foreign students who applied for visas at our main office,” said Estrada, as he disclosed that BI field offices outside of Metro Manila were also authorized to accept and process student visa applications.

He said that aside from the BI main office, there has been a steady increase in student visa applications filed with the bureau’s field offices in key cities such as those in Cebu, Baguio , Davao , Angeles, and Iloilo.

Estrada said that language schools in the country have the most number of foreign students, followed by the different state universities and colleges.

“Cebu and Baguio City have the most number of foreign students,” Estrada said.

In my medical reviews at Newark, NJ, I met many overseas-physicians from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Jordan who knew that I was Filipino and spoke to me in their broken Tagalog. I was astonished. On further discussions and introduction, I found out that they were product of Philippine Medical Schools: University of the Philippines, University of the East and the prestigious Santo Tomas Medical School.

Three of them were neurosurgeons, 2 where interventional cardiologists and one was a psychiatrist. All of them were trained and specialized in the Philippines.

There is no question on the excellence of Philippine Educational Systems. I would even dare to claim that Philippine Medical Schools are one of THE best medical schools in the world. The way Philippine Medical Schools teach their students are--gold standard. They implement a strong basic-science background (rigorous competition), and a complementary problem-based solving technique when teaching clinical medicine--then send Medical Students to medical missions throughout the Philippines on 3-4 month blocks.

I met a friend, who was a recent graduate from University of Philippines School of Medicine in Manila, and told me about their 3 month Community Medicine Block. He was sent to one of the poor barangays in Antipolo and served and worked with the local community physician there to deliver children (hundreds delivered) and performed general urological surgery--he performed hundreds of circumcisions in a 3 month span--and with it a lengthy clinical experience.

Philippine Medical Schools teach not only the books--but the clinical experience is colorful. What students like myself read about in text books such as leprosy (lepromatous types), various types of E.coli infections that are unheard of here in the 'states, or various cases of cholera, yersinia pestis (bubonic plague) that are still viable in S.E Asia (non-existant and unheard of here in the US) can be seen and treated in the Philippines.

My friend, Christopher (that is his name), is a Fil-AM who went to college here in the United States, but went to medical school in the Philippines (UP) and finished his rotations there. We are both now very good friends.

Philippine-Trained Doctors are very well-rounded.


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Re: The Philippines Destination for Foreign Students
« Reply #8 on: June 27, 2010, 02:37:11 PM »
We are producing excellent graduates. I met an Indian ( he comes from India and I call him Bombay which he said is derogatory) a doctor of medicine from Divine Word Uni Tacloban City, he worked for HIV research program in Europe, he is now assigned in CDC Atlanta.
I also met a German dentist who finished her studies in Centro Escolar University in Manila.

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Re: The Philippines Destination for Foreign Students
« Reply #9 on: June 28, 2010, 09:05:25 AM »
A proof of Philippine Excellence in Education are the 20,000 Filipino Doctors that are working abroad in the United States. They were selected because of the excellence the Philippines exudes in its academic leadership.

An example and product of this is my medical hero:

Dr. Dioscoro Villanueva, M.D, who is a Cardiothoracic Surgeon and Mentor.
He was named one of the best Surgeons in Southern New Jersey.

He is a product of the prestigious University of the East School of Medicine.

He is seated in the picture (center)


He has saved thousands of lives, trained hundreds of American doctors. :)
Philippine Education training American Doctors.


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Re: The Philippines Destination for Foreign Students
« Reply #10 on: June 29, 2010, 08:30:10 PM »
The Philippine is a destination to foreign students to study here its because  our medium of instruction is English. 

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Re: The Philippines Destination for Foreign Students
« Reply #11 on: July 04, 2010, 07:55:54 AM »
The Philippine is a destination to foreign students to study here its because  our medium of instruction is English. 

unya barato pa gyud.  ;)

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