In a country that cannot even hold a decent election, students cheating their way through college should be anything but surprising. But cheating has come a long way from the ingenious crib notes or codigo neatly tucked inside one’s pocket or discreetly scribbled on the desk ...

The truth is I got my fake University of the Philippines diploma in a section of Recto closer to the Manila City Jail than U-belt.

On March 27, 2008, University Professor Dr. Edgardo D. Gomez delivered the lecture titled “Attitude Change as a Key to Success for UP’s Second Century”—the eighth UP Centennial Lecture and the third “View from the Inside”—at the NISMED Auditorium in UP Diliman. This was interactively participated in by gatherings in nine UP campuses, to which the lecture was beamed live.

How do institutions affect the performance of an economy over time? What are the conditions necessary for economic growth? And how do we create these conditions?