During this year’s Environmental Planning Licensure Examination (EPLE), five students and one graduate from the Diploma in Land Use Planning (DLUP) Program of the University of the Philippines-Faculty of Management and Development Studies (UPOU-FMDS) were among the 2019 passers out of the total 4,973 EPLE examinees. The results of the EPLE were released by the Professional Regulation Commission last 11 June 2019. The following DLUP Program students are now licensed Environmental Planners (EnPs): Mr. Lou Stanley Ignacio Pulvera, Ms. Danica Marie Velasco Arriesgado, Ms. Marie Juvy Lalin Alera, Ms. Izil Lantano Cablilan, and Mr. Maja-Layne Zabala Edejer. Ms. Christine Golda [...]

The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) Faculty of Information and Communication Studies (FICS) held the 2nd FICS MeetUPs on 13 June 2019, at the UPOU Oblation Hall, Los Banos, Laguna. Following the success of the MeetUPs in March 2019, FICS continued the initiative through the second MeetUPs aimed toward staff empowerment and knowledge sharing. with Ms. Emelyn Furio and Mr. Efraime Cruz as resource speakers. Ms. Furio, started off with the topic on How Can I Help? A Guide to Basic Student Support Services, in relation to her experiences as the student support staff of FICS . This [...]

Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) representative, Mr. Enrico L. Torres, Frontline Services Division Staff Officer III, conducted a re-orientation and briefing on the basic services of GSIS with UPOU employees on 17 June 2019 at the Audiovisual Room, UP Open University, Los Banos, Laguna. Mr. Torres was accompanied by Mr. Jose Cresencio H. Garcia, Acting Officer I, Billing, Collection and Reconciliation Division (BCRD). The activity served to review and update employees on the basic social security benefits inclusive of GSIS membership. Around 60 employees attended the said program. The speaker presented updates on loan restructuring and status revalidation through [...]

The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU), in partnership with the University of Plymouth (UK) and the CogNovo Foundation for Cognitive Innovation, is hosting the Off the Lip 2020 Conference on Cognitive Innovation for Sustainable Development. This will be held on the 24th and 25th of January 2020 at the UP Open University in Los Baños, Laguna as part of the UPOU’s 25th Anniversary activities in 2020. The Off the Lip 2020 aims to highlight the role that cognitive innovation and other radically multidisciplinary research approaches might play in addressing sustainable development issues. Researchers from all disciplines and from [...]

The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) further enhances its public service undertakings through the establishment of its own Ugnayan ng Pahinungód Office on 6 June 2019. This effort is also in response to the University of the Philippines (UP) System’s move to revert the System Pahinungod Coordinating Committee (SPCC) to the former UP System Office of Ugnayan ng Pahinungod/Oblation Corps (System UP/OC) at the same time to revitalize UP/OCs in all constituent UP universities. The UPOU Ugnayan ng Pahinungod office intends to implement projects such as Teacher Training Program, Tutorial Services Program, and Buhay Pahinungód that are expected [...]