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US billionaire's gift to graduates fuels student debt debate

Catherine Triomphe, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 22 11:01 AM

NEW YORK - When the American billionaire Robert Smith announced to students graduating from historically black Morehouse College that he would pay off their student loans, he put himself at the center of one of the 2020 US election's key issues. Read more »

Boy who used to study under streetlights moves up to junior HS

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 20 05:17 PM

Daniel Cabrera, the boy whose photos while studying along a sidewalk in Cebu went viral in 2015, has finished elementary and will soon start studying in junior high school. Read more »

Richest black man in US to pay off graduating class's student debt

Audra D.S. Burch, The New York Times
Posted at May 20 11:02 AM

Robert F. Smith, the billionaire investor who founded Vista Equity Partners and became the richest black man in America, told the crowd that he and his family would pay off the entire graduating class’s student debt. Read more »

Senior high graduate, pasado sa 10 college entrance exam

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 08 12:53 AM

Kung sa iba, malaking hamon ang pagpasa sa mga college entrance exam, sisiw naman ito sa isang estudyante mula Quezon City. Read more »

ASTIG: Pinay wagi sa Google contest

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 04 01:04 AM

MAYNILA - Wagi ang isang 17 anyos na Pinay sa international competition ng Google para sa mga estudyanteng may kakayahan sa coding, design, at open software.   Read more »

Estudyante, gumagawa ng mobile app ukol sa mabilis na pagresponde sa lindol

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 25 01:08 AM

Isang mobile app ang binubuo ng isang estudyante sa Valenzuela para madaling matukoy ang mga lugar na matinding naapektuhan ng lindol. Read more »

Senior high grad dedicates award to mother living with MS

Jhun Dantes
Updated as of Apr 21 01:42 PM

Eighteen-year-old Jose Angelo Villafuerte graduated senior high with honors at Cainta Catholic College. Read more »

College student, nakuhanan ng P1.5-M halaga ng shabu, baril

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 13 01:12 AM

MAYNILA - Timbog ang isang business administration student sa buy-bust operation sa Barangay Bangkal, Makati City nitong Biyernes. Read more »

Criminology student patay sa pamamaril sa Pasay

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 08 07:04 PM

Napatay ang isang criminology student sa Pasay City matapos umanong barilin ng kaniyang nakaalitan.  Read more »

Anak ng tricycle driver, pinarangalan ng ABS-CBN Medal of Excellence Award

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 06 04:22 AM

DIPOLOG CITY - Pinarangalan ng ABS-CBN Medal of Excellence Award ang anak ng isang traysikel drayber na nagtapos bilang valedictorian sa Olingan Elementary School sa Dipolog City, Zamboanga del Norte. Read more »

Estudyante timbog sa marijuana sa Cubao

Dexter Ganibe, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 03 10:27 PM

Nahulihan ang isang estudyante ng pinatuyong dahon ng marijuana sa LRT-2 Cubao Station nitong Miyerkoles ng gabi. Read more »

Mom goes viral with heartwarming graduation photo

Angela Baylon, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 03 12:58 PM

Aside from her cap and diploma, Pepsha Aranas carried her daughter as she finally graduates from college. Read more »

Fil-Am student's death after frat party in California traced to alcohol poisoning

ABS-CBN North America News Bureau
Posted at Mar 14 03:40 PM

The death of a Filipino-American freshman of the University of California Irvine (UCI) after a fraternity party in January was due to accidental alcohol poisoning, authorities have said.  Read more »

Tanod, 15 iba pa tiklo sa droga sa QC

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 13 01:37 AM

Labing-anim, kabilang ang isang barangay tanod, ang arestado sa buy-bust operation sa Lagro, Quezon City. Read more »

Pinoy student drowns in Australia - DFA

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 28 04:08 AM

A 24-year-old Filipino student drowned off Flinders Beach, North Stradbroke Island in Queensland, Australia on Monday, the Department of Foreign Affairs said. Read more »

No Princeton degree awarded to Imee Marcos, says report quoting school official

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 27 04:23 PM

The daughter of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr had previously insisted that she graduated from the prestigious university. Read more »

Batas na mag-aalok ng career guidance sa Grade 7 students pataas, pirmado na

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 22 01:12 AM

Ire-require na ang pagkakaroon ng career guidance at counseling sa mga grade 7 students at pataas. Read more »

Grade 11 student, timbog sa tangkang pagpuslit ng marijuana sa kulungan

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 21 10:39 PM

Arestado ang isang grade 11 student matapos umanong magtangkang magpuslit ng droga sa Sampaloc Police Station Miyerkoles ng tanghali. Read more »

NYC chair Ronald Cardema, pinagbibitiw sa puwesto

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 21 01:34 AM

Ito'y dahil umano sa pagbatikos niya sa karapatan ng mga mag-aaral na magpahayag ng kanilang pananaw. Read more »

Duterte: Dissent OK but students espousing gov't 'destruction' may lose scholarship

Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 20 08:06 PM

MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday said he sees nothing wrong with students expressing dissent against his administration but warned that those who would push for the "destruction" of his government might lose their scholarship, as earlier suggested by an official.   Read more »