Baguio Schools
& Educational Insitutions
Planning to study, or sending your child to study, in a Baguio school?
I used to beg my mom to allow me to study in Baguio, even just for the summer months to escape the Manila heat (and to be able to ride horses daily, of course).
After all, I was studying at the University of the Philippines in Diliman and could easily cross-enroll in UP Baguio for summer classes then.
To cut a long story short, my mom never allowed me to study here.
And these were her reasons:
1. Board & Lodging.
Even if my favorite cousins were living here, of course she would still have to offer to pay for a bed and meals, or have me stay in a dormitory.
2. Transportation & Other Allowances.
Studying in a place other than your home city or town would entail extra expenses on your part, of course.
3. Parental Guidance
The well-being of a child is a parent's foremost concern. Of course there was no way my mom would allow a 16-year old to spend one night away from her watchful eyes. And looking back now, I so agree with her! While schooling is important, one cannot discount the importance of the guidance and wisdom a parent can impart for things other than academics.
4. Physical Safety.
This actually should be first in the list, but I have left it for last because, while a parent is perennially worried about the child's safety, no teenager really feels he is in danger at any time. In the Philippines, children go off to college as early as 15 years old. In a town full of strangers, there is no safety in anonymity. In a city filled, in 2007, with more than 100,000 students, a lot of whom are here without their parents, there are the real dangers of gang wars, student prostitution, early pregnancies, vandalism and alcohol-related violence. The absense of parental guidance also leads to the kids making all the wrong decisions about money and friends. Reading the news and their archives will attest to all that I say.
I share my story with you simply because there are very valid concerns other than tuition fees and the high costs of education, and the limited choice of college courses compared to Manila schools, and the employability of graduates from Baguio schools in competitive jobs, that one takes into consideration when choosing to study in Baguio.
University of the Philippines (UP) Baguio
Saint Louis University (SLU)
University of the Cordilleras (UC)
The Most Popular Baguio Schools
These are schools set up for and by Korean nationals to further their proficiency in the English language to enable them to enter their own universities, migrate to another country upon retirement and/or be able to get better jobs.
Baguio City is the favorite venue for these English academies among all other locations in the Philippines because of weather similar to their own, the availability of cheap and fluent English teachers, and because it really is cheaper over-all for them to operate here.
Of course, this is not the only reason the Koreans are here in the Philippines in general and Baguio in particular. A lot of Koreans come
golf courses at Camp John Hay and Baguio Country Club), gamble in casinos (there's one just 45 minutes away at Poro Point in La Union) and frequent 'karaoke' bars. A lot of Korean tourists are allowed by the failure to strictly implement Philippine immigration laws to actually stay here and do business as operators of groceries, Korean restaurants and karaoke bars.
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Are elementary and high schools
in Baguio any good?
Baguio has a plethora of public and private primary and secondary schools. Particular atttention is placed on ensuring that there enough schools for about half the city's burgeoning population, the youth.
The 2005-2010 Medium Term Development Plan authored by the city government indicates that: 1. The total enrollees for all levels for the school year (2004) was137,289 students: * College level = 49.21% or 67,560 students * Secondary = 20.92% or 28,721 students * Elementary = 29.87% or 41,008 students2. There are a whopping 209 schools operating in Baguio, both public and private: * 54 are pre-elementary * 66 are elementary schools * 43 are secondary schools * 7 universities and colleges * 37 vocational schools * 2 schools for the physically handicapped3. The population of Baguio in 2005 was estimated at 285,278. Thus about half the city’s population is composed of students.This size it tremendous considering Baguio City was designed to accommodate only 30,000 persons. Just the student populations of both Saint Louis University and the University of Baguio number more than 20,000 each!
The public schools here, offering primary and secondary education, are unbelievably good, clean and cheap compared to the rest of the Philippines. Php1,500 tuition per child, plus the possibility of building a house on 'free' public land, is what attracts so many Filipinos to come up and live in Baguio.
Of course, the weather in Baguio makes it very pleasant to study and play here.
So, should you send your children to study in Baguio? All in all I would say, only if you move here, too, to be able to watch them grow and to make sure that the schools provide your children with all they need to become successful
Baguio City used to be the educational center mostly for the residents of the Cordillera Region in
the Philippines.
In recent years however Baguio City has been flooded with students from the lowlands of Pangasinan, Tarlac, Pampanga, the Ilocos Region, and other Philippine provinces, a lot of whom are attracted to some big Baguio universities because of their 'free admissions policy' (meaning, no entrance exams required to enroll for college -- just submit high school or equivalency documents plus pay the tuition).
And having gotten all that out of the way, we can now proceed to a comparison of the different schools in Baguio (the list opens in another page).
In 1982, my best friend in U.P. Diliman was from Baguio, and 20 years later, I was asked to help another Baguio girl register for a quota course in U.P. Diliman, and find a dormitory.
It turns out that about a dozen or so of the graduates of Baguio CIty High School that year made it to my alma mater and I was pleasantly surprised and so pleased!
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