A New HoRizon: Dr. Christopher Bernido and Dr. Victoria Carpio-Bernido

A New Horizon
Christopher C. Bernido and M. Victoria Carpio-Bernido
Research Center for Theoretical Physics
Central Visayan Institute Foundation
Jagna, Bohol
PMAP Annual Convention
Cebu International Convention Center
13 October 2010

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There is a global competition in the training
and recruitment of the best minds
in the world.
Creative
training
discipline
minds
stamina
Advances
Better
in
products,
Science
services,
and
health
technology

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21st CENTURY
In a knowledge-based Society,
discoveries in Science and Technology
drive the Economy.
Countries with excellent Scientists and
Engineers can dominate those
countries without the required
scientific manpower.

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Philippine Crisis:
 The absence of a critical mass of
well-trained highly creative people,
in particular, the lack of Ph.D.’s in
science & engineering.
 No Philippine university entered the
top 200 in the 2009 THED world-
wide ranking of universities.

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Scientists and Engineers in Research & Development
(per million population)
Scientist to Population Ratio
 Japan: 5,084
 Singapore: 4,613
 Malaysia: 726
 Vietnam: 516
 Thailand: 493
 Philippines: 157
UNESCO benchmark: 340
CCB/MCVB-CVIF Jagna/09
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Crisis in Basic Education:
 Rank in the TIMSS 2003: number 42 out
of 45 nations, with an average scale
score of 378. The top-performing country,
Singapore, had an average scale score of
605.

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 Performance of Philippine
Science High School students in
Science was below the
international mean.

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Crisis in Basic Education:
 Did not join the TIMSS 2007
 Joined the TIMSS Advanced Math
2008:
Rank 10th out of 10.

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 In the IMO 2009, the Philippines
placed 78th out of 104 participating
countries, with a Team Score of 26
points.
Top-performing China got 221
pts, Thailand got 181 pts (rank 7th),
Indonesia got 84 pts, Vietnam got
161 pts, Malaysia got 31 pts (rank
75th).

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What can we do?
What should we change?

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