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A working holiday which was first observed in 2020. This holiday aims to promote, protect, and safeguard the constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of expression, speech and of the press in the Philippines especially in school campuses. July 27. Iglesia ni Cristo Day.
The University of San Carlos ( USC or colloquially San Carlos) is a private, Catholic, research, coeducational basic and higher education institution administered by the Philippine Southern Province of the Society of the Divine Word missionaries in Cebu City, Philippines, since 1935. It offers basic education (Montessori academy, grade school ...
Academic year. An academic year or school year is a period that schools, colleges and universities use to measure the quantity of study that are often divided into academic terms. [ 1] During this period, students attend classes and do relevant exams and homework. It comprises school days and school holidays.
The University of the Philippines ( UP; Filipino: Unibersidad ng Pilipinas) [ 8][ 9] is a state university system in the Philippines. It is the country's national university, as mandated by Republic Act No. 9500 (UP Charter of 2008), giving it institutional autonomy. [ 10][ 11]
The University of California ( UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. Headquartered in Oakland, the system is composed of its ten campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz, along with numerous research centers and ...
The University of California, Santa Barbara ( UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. [ 11] Tracing its roots back to 1891 as an independent teachers' college, UCSB joined the ancestor of the California State University system in 1909 and then moved over to the ...
The current Board of Regents is a "policy board," as a result of reforms unanimously adopted from 1957 to 1960 at the instigation of UC President Clark Kerr. Before Kerr's reforms, the regents operated as an "administrative board" (in Kerr's words) for almost a century. The board met 12 times per year and its finance committee (with full ...
The Philippines has 1,975 higher education institutions as of 2019, of which 246 are public and 1,729 are private. [458] Public universities are non-sectarian, and are primarily classified as state-administered or local government-funded. [459] [460] The national university is the eight-school University of the Philippines (UP) system. [461]