1.

Our country’s uniqueness as the only Christian and English-speaking archipelago

in Southeast Asia impacts our education system more than we acknowledge.

Our country’s anglophonic culture and religious system are all results of colonialism,
backed up by our rich history of being colonized by the Spanish regime for three
centuries, followed by the US occupation for nearly five decades.

The US colonialism has always had a huge impact on the development of the education
system in the Philippines. In fact, the American English has always been imposed in our
schools and become second to the Filipino as our national language.

Our strong knowledge in the English language could be a global tool in personal
economic growth, particularly if you’d consider the business process outsourcing
industry in the global landscape. Despite this, Filipinos are still very dependent on
attaining college degrees in terms of climbing the professional ladder, as a college
diploma is still a very basic requirement or qualification in landing on financially fulfilling
jobs. Luckily though, a lot of advancements have happened in the modern Philippine
education system that is designed to empower Filipinos personally and professionally.

2. Higher Educational Leaders bridges political science and development studies. It

acknowledges the human agency of reformist individuals as a significant causal
factor in social and political change, and signals the role of coalitions and
networks in overcoming barriers to collective action and facilitating the
achievement of shared goals. Conversely, predatory leaders and their networks
can thwart social and political progress, even under the most promising of
material and structural conditions At some point in their life trajectories, individual
developmental leaders need to acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes that
make their personal success as reformers possible, and they also need to form
the networks and coalitions which allow them to exercise these. Given the well-
documented correlation between education, aspiration and civic engagement
study at university is likely to be a meaningful phase for developmental leaders in
terms of their personal growth and also in relation to their accumulation of social
capital of various forms. In general, higher education has the potential to promote
social cohesion by, for example, creating opportunities to discuss sensitive
issues and by modelling good institutional behaviours including tolerance,
fairness and meritocracy. The realization of this potential, however, depends on
good institutional governance as well as the nature of interactions facilitated by
staff members. Beyond the skills for individuals, tertiary education can provide
excellent opportunities for coalition building. Not only are developmental leaders
more likely to be well-educated: case study research from a range of contexts
suggests that there are benefits to them studying together. This develops deep
levels of trust and facilitates future collective agency.
3. Governance in higher education is the means by which institutions for higher
education (tertiary or post-secondary education) are formally organized and
managed (though often there is a distinction between definitions of management
and governance). Simply, university governance is the way in which universities
are operated. Governing structures for higher education are highly differentiated
throughout the world, but the different models nonetheless share a common
heritage.[1][2] Internationally, tertiary education includes private not-for-profit,
private for-profit, and public institutions governed by differentiated structures of
management.

Governance and management of post-secondary institutions becomes even

more diverse with the differences in defining the relationships between higher
and tertiary education (university education), postsecondary education, technical
and vocational education, and community college models of education. The
issues are complicated by current debates over collegial and shared forms of
governance contrasted to corporate and business forms of institutional
governance.

4. To many, leaders are not born, but made. It is increasingly accepted, however,
that in order to be a good leader, one must have the experience, knowledge,
commitment, patience, and most importantly the skill to negotiate and work with
others to achieve goals. Good leaders are thus made, not born. Good leadership
is developed through a never ending process of self-study, education, training,
and the accumulation of relevant experience From the perspective of employees,
leadership is comprised of everything a leader does that affects the achievement
of objectives and the well-being of employees and the organization.
Trustworthiness is often key to positions of leadership as trust is fundamental to
all manner of organized human groups, whether in education, business, the
military, religion, government, or international organizations. Leadership involves
a type of responsibility aimed at achieving particular ends by applying the
available resources (human and material) and ensuring a cohesive and coherent
organization in the process leadership as a process or relationship, leadership as
a combination of traits or personality characteristics, or leadership as certain
behaviors or, as they are more commonly referred to, leadership skills. In the
more dominant theories of leadership, there exists the notion that, at least to
some degree, leadership is a process that involves influence with a group of
people toward the realization of goals.
5. An interest group is an organization of people who share a common interest
and work together to protect and promote that interest by influencing the
government. Interest groups vary greatly in size, aims, and tactics. Political
scientists generally divide interest groups into two categories: economic and
noneconomic. While Community participation can be loosely defined as the
involvement of people in a community in projects to solve their own problems.
People cannot be forced to ‘participate’ inprojects which affect their lives but
should be given the opportunity where possible. This isheld to be a basic human
right and a fundamental principle of democracy. Communityparticipation is
especially important in emergency sanitation programmes where people maybe
unaccustomed to their surroundings and new sanitation facilities, And coalitions
denotes on for a group formed when two or more people, factions, states, political
parties, militaries etc. agree to work together temporarily in a partnership to achieve a
common goal. The word coalition connotes a coming together to achieve a goal.[1][2]