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Special Course in Urban and Regional Planning (SCURP)
2008
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The University of the Philippines School of Urban and Regional Planning (UP-SURP) announces the
conduct of a series of SCURP training programs for 2008.
The Special Course on Urban and Regional Planning (SCURP)
2008, with the main theme "Rationalizing Local Planning in the Philippines",
aims to introduce a model for local environmental planning and development that will integrate planning in the overall governance function. Through this special course, UP-SURP hopes to contribute to the national effort to localize the principles of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Although the training is primarily designed for local government officials, it
also addresses the needs of officers and staff of national agencies involved in
the formulation and enforcement of local planning guidelines and standards, or
in implementing laws, policies, programs and projects requiring coordination
with, and cooperation of local government units, private sector, and
non-governmental organizations. Participants are from both public sector, i.e.,
local government officials, officials and field officers of national government
agencies, and private sector, particularly from the NGOs and real estate
business.
The first regular course for 2008 was held for ten (10) consecutive Saturdays,
from
February 9 to April 19 at the SURP Building in U.P. Diliman, Quezon
City.
Customized SCURP training for Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG)
personnel was also conducted on March 3-14 2008.
The registration fee per participant is PhP12,000, inclusive of materials, lunch and two snacks. A Certificate of Training will be given to participants who will
be able to attend at least eighty percent of all sessions. For inquiries
and future schedule of SCURP training, you may contact Mr. Leoneil C. Maranan
or Ms. Kristine C. Follosco at 9262120 or 9818500 loc. 4082 or visit
http://www.upd.edu.ph/~surp/training/training.html.
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SURP joins UP
Centennial Celebration
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Former SURP Dean to
talk on local planning and expenditure management in the Philippines
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Former SURP Dean, Dr. Benjamin V. Cariño,
will deliver the fourth Centennial
Public Lecture of the University of
the Philippines School of Urban and
Regional Planning on June 27, 2008,
Friday, 2:00 to 5:00 p.m., at the
Firmalino Room, U.P. SURP, Diliman,
Quezon City. The lecture is entitled
“Strengthening Provincial/Local
Planning and Expenditure
Management”.
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SURP
staff and students top EnP board exams |
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June
13, 2008
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U.P. SURP staff Kristine C. Follosco
topped the 2008 environmental
planner (EnP) licensure
examination held on June 11-12. Another SURP staff,
Leoneil C. Maranan took the 9th
place.
Follosco and Maranan
are both students of the Master of
Arts in Urban and Regional Planning
program of SURP.
Results of the
licensure examinations for the past
seven years show that UP SURP
graduates, students, and faculty have
been consistently topping the board
examinations.
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UP
PLANADES signs MoC with House of
Representatives and DILG |
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The
UP Planning and
Development Research Foundation (PLANADES)
signed a Memorandum of
Cooperation with the
House of
Representatives
through the Special Committee on
Land Use and the
Department of Interior
and Local Government (DILG)
on May 13, 2008. The cooperation
involves capacity-building program
for local government units on the
preparation of CDPs and CLUPs.
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Canadian
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May 13, 2008 --- The Dean and officers
of the University of the Philippines School of Urban and Regional Planning welcomed guests
from
Vancouver Island University
to
discuss the possibility of establishing academic and institutional
linkages between the two schools
in the areas of faculty exchange, and
joint researches and academic programs.
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SURP
graduates 3 Ph.D. students |
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April 27, 2008
--- Three doctoral candidates and three dean’s medalists
led the fifty one (51) other candidates for graduation who were
presented during the 2008 SURP Recognition Program held at the
Firmalino Hall of the U.P. School of Urban and Regional Planning. The
fifty-seven (57) SURP students were later conferred with degrees during the
University commencement exercises held at the UP Diliman Amphitheater.
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SURP Faculty Conference on
Proposed Curricular Revisions |
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April 2008---Faculty members of the UP School of Urban and Regional
Planning (SURP) convened for the School’s faculty conference, which
was held from April 7 – 9 at the Mimosa Montevista Villas in
Clarkfield, Pampanga. The main objectives of the faculty conference
included improving the School’s academic offerings and drawing up a
curricular proposal to reintroduce the fields of specialization.
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Congress to act on
land use code
House
to cooperate with Local Government
department and UP to resolve land use issues
THE House of
Representatives, spearheaded by Speaker
Prospero Nograles, together with the
Department of Interior and Local Government
and the University of the Philippines, have
agreed to join forces to work for the
ultimate enactment of a National Land Use
Code, which will serve as a guide for the
judicious and appropriate utilization of the
country’s land resources.
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UP declared National University
Admin urges community to work hard for
Charter implementation
UP is officially the national
university of the Philippines.
On April 29, 2008, just in time for the UP
Centennial, “The University of the
Philippines Charter of 2008” was enacted
after several years in the legislative mill.
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Fire Code up for upgrade through four Senate
bills
Senate Bill (SB) 1477 by
Francis Joseph G. Escudero, (SB) 1740 by
Miriam Defensor-Santiago, SB 1954 by Ramon
B. Revilla, Jr. and SB 2196 by Senate
President Manuel B. Villar, Jr. all propose
changes in land use, disaster preparedness,
budget and reengineering of the Bureau of
Fire Protection (BFP).
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Arroyo signs new UP Charter
CEBU CITY -- President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo has signed into law the new
University of the Philippines Charter that
would grant the university additional funds
and strengthen the composition of its Board
of Regents.
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PGMA-signed
‘U.P. Charter 2008’ grants P500-M & greater
autonomy to U.P. system
April 29, 2008 -- The
proposed University of the Philippines
Charter of 2008 -- which President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo had just signed into law
today at the UP Cebu campus in Cebu City --
provides a P500-million ‘centennial gift’ to
the UP System that will defray the cost of
modernizing the country’s state university,
especially its research facilities.
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Gov’t orders immediate stop to land
conversion
MANILA -- Taking a cue from
the experts, Agrarian Reform Secretary
Nasser Pangandaman Tuesday ordered an
immediate stop to the conversion of
agricultural lands to real estate
development in the face of a feared shortage
in the supply of rice.
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Land titles stir tribal communities
In
Barangay Salvacion in
Trento,
Agusan del Sur,
people are now
astir by an outside force that they see as
potentially disastrous to their tightly knit
relationship and to the generous mountains
that surround the place. A lumad leader told
residents that their village is within his
group’s ancestral domain. He showed a
certificate of ancestral domain title (CADT)
approved by the National Commission for the
Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) on July 22, 2003.
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DA-DENR-DILG issue Joint Administrative
Order No. 1
The joint AO,
issued on January 31, 2008, defines and
identifies the areas of cooperation and
collaboration among the Departments of
Agriculture, Environment and Natural
Resources, and Interior and Local Government
in the planning, management and control of
aquaculture development to mitigate impacts
on the environment.
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