Month: February 2022

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Circular Economy – Co-authored by RCSSED Academic Researcher Dr. Arlen Ancheta and her colleagues from the Philippines and India

A newly-released book by the global publisher Springer looks at global trends on what is called the ‘Circular Economy’ – this being ‘a model of production and consumption which involves sharing, leasing, reusing, repairing, refurbishing and recycling existing materials and products as long as possible.’ A chapter on the Philippines is featured here.

Co-authored by RCSSED Academic Researcher Dr. Arlen Ancheta and her colleagues from the Philippines and India. Book can be found here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-0913-8…

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Certificate Course on Family Literacy and Intergenerational Learning

The University of Santo Tomas Graduate School strongly promotes adult literacy and learning through research, community development initiatives, and continuing education programmes. Thus, the NGO Transformare, in collaboration with the UST Family Literacy Team under RCSSED (Dr. Gina Lontoc, Dr. Camilla Vizconde & Dr. Belinda de Castro), is pleased to invite you to apply for scholarship opportunities for the ‘Certificate Course in Family Literacy and Intergenerational Learning’.

The deadline for submission of application is on February 21, 2022. Successful applicants will be notified on or before February 28, 2022. The organizers are currently processing the CPD Units (for professional teachers and social workers) for this certificate course

This program is part of the impact activities of the research project of the UST Family Literacy Team titled, ‘Family literacy, indigenous learning and sustainable development: Proof of concept pilot’. The aim of the course is to help students develop an understanding of key components of family literacy and intergenerational learning. By the end of the certificate course, students are expected to produce a project proposal which they intend to implement within their institutions.

The course will run for 8 weeks in April and May 2022 and sessions will be delivered fully online. This course is intended for Adult literacy/DepEd ALS (Alternative Learning System) facilitators and program implementers, social/community workers, social ministry staff and coordinators, and faculty members/coordinators involved in service learning and community integration/extension programmes of their institutions.

To apply for scholarship, kindly use this link:

https://forms.gle/dLkTVujk8nzpm5Sj6

📩 If you have inquiries and other concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us. You may also contact the Family Literacy Project Secretariat at familyliteracy.ust@gmail.com.

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Seeking for and returning to overseas work? Developments surrounding Filipinos’ return to overseas jobs beside a pandemic by former research center director Dr. Alvin P. Ang and RCSSED research associate Jeremaiah Opiniano

Countries and their labor markets engage in measures to move forward from the debilitating impacts of the running COVID-19 pandemic. Migrant-origin country Philippines has felt the impact of the return migrations of her migrant workers, who may now want to return to their overseas jobs or go to new destination countries. Yet migrant-destination countries continue to contain SARS-CoV-2 given the emergence of new variants. These containment measures stun the recovery of these labor markets for migrant workers. This policy paper illustrates the cases of three migration corridors on how they respond to current levels of viral transmission, and try to re-open their labor markets to migrant workers. The cases illustrate ad hoc measures that have left destination countries stuck in continually containing the virus, thus rendering their labor markets feeble. If countries want to relaunch their economies, this aspiration may require bilateral, regional and multilateral approaches to protect human capital and meet shared labor needs beside this pandemic.

–published in an “International Migration Report” with the theme migrant workers and labor markets during the pandemic. This IMR was freshly released by the Centro Studi Emigrazione Roma (Italy) and the Scalabrini International Migration Network in Europe-Africa Region –both run by the Missionaries of St. Charles – Scalabrinians.

by former research center director Dr. Alvin P. Ang and RCSSED research associate Jeremaiah Opiniano