PHINMA Transforming Education: Inequalities in the Philippines
Document Type
Book
Publication Date
3-2021
Abstract
PHINMA Education, the education services subsidiary of PHINMA Corporation, focuses on the challenge of providing accessible, quality education to students from low-income backgrounds. Most of them come from families that earn about US$300 per month. Most of them are hoping to be the first in their family to finish college. However, they are most probably not prepared for college, if we look at their scores on a college-readiness test. But they aspire to have a job, like their more well-off counterparts. However their chances of getting a job usually reserved for college graduates are not as high as their counterparts. This is where we see the inequalities…
Recommended Citation
Larios, F. L., & Ramirez, R. A. (2021). Phinma transforming education: Inequalities in the philippines. In A. S. Teo (Ed.), Univer-Cities: Reshaping Strategies to Meet Radical Change, Pandemics and Inequality (Vol. 4, pp. 109–115). WORLD SCIENTIFIC. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811234255_0008
