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    DEBATE SchoolCalendarShift

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    The document argues that the academic calendars of Philippine universities should be adjusted to start in August rather than June. It claims that this adjustment would lessen class suspensions due to typhoons during the rainy months of June-August. It also asserts that the new calendar would attract more foreign students and enable domestic students to study abroad more easily. The document further argues that adjusting the calendar would help align the Philippine education system with international standards and facilitate international academic collaborations and exchanges. Finally, it maintains that the proposed adjusted calendar would distribute semesters and breaks more evenly and efficiently throughout the year.

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    The document argues that the academic calendars of Philippine universities should be adjusted to start in August rather than June. It claims that this adjustment would lessen class suspensions due to typhoons during the rainy months of June-August. It also asserts that the new calendar would attract more foreign students and enable domestic students to study abroad more easily. The document further argues that adjusting the calendar would help align the Philippine education system with international standards and facilitate international academic collaborations and exchanges. Finally, it maintains that the proposed adjusted calendar would distribute semesters and breaks more evenly and efficiently throughout the year.

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    The document argues that the academic calendars of Philippine universities should be adjusted to start in August rather than June. It claims that this adjustment would lessen class suspensions due to typhoons during the rainy months of June-August. It also asserts that the new calendar would attract more foreign students and enable domestic students to study abroad more easily. The document further argues that adjusting the calendar would help align the Philippine education system with international standards and facilitate international academic collaborations and exchanges. Finally, it maintains that the proposed adjusted calendar would distribute semesters and breaks more evenly and efficiently throughout the year.

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    DEBATE SchoolCalendarShift

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    Cam Chua
    The document argues that the academic calendars of Philippine universities should be adjusted to start in August rather than June. It claims that this adjustment would lessen class suspensions due to typhoons during the rainy months of June-August. It also asserts that the new calendar would attract more foreign students and enable domestic students to study abroad more easily. The document further argues that adjusting the calendar would help align the Philippine education system with international standards and facilitate international academic collaborations and exchanges. Finally, it maintains that the proposed adjusted calendar would distribute semesters and breaks more evenly and efficiently throughout the year.

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    Good morning.

    I am here today to defend the proposition: this house


    supports the adjustment of the academic calendar of the Philippines top
    universities. Now, before I proceed to my speech, I would like to ask you a simple
    question. In adjusting the academic calendar of the Philippines top universities,
    will we loose anything? No answer? None? Well I guess that itself shows that
    there is only very minimal to possibly no loss if the top universities change their
    academic calendar. Changing the academic calendar would only lessen the
    chances of the suspension of classes due to the fact that the rainiest months are
    usually June, July and August.
    The Philippines receives an average of 20-25 typhoons annually. Most of
    these typhoons occur during the said months. By adjusting the academic
    calendar of the universities, less time and effort are wasted. Chances of being
    stranded in schools are also avoided. Moreover, the risk of being sick due to the
    weather is prevented. Therefore, starting classes on August, and avoiding the
    rainy season, will provide more convenience and safety for everyone.
    Adjusting the academic calendar would also attract more foreign students
    to study in the Philippines as well as enable Filipino students to easily enroll and
    apply to schools outside of the Philippines. This will not only bring academic
    growth to our country but economic growth as well. By adjusting the academic
    calendar of the universities, the Philippines would be ready for the economic
    integration plans of the ASEAN Economic Community or the Association of
    Southeast Asian Nations Economic Community. They plan to align all the
    academic calendars of the nations part of the association to the academic
    calendar used by the rest of the world by 2015. Out of all the countries that are
    part of the ASEAN, the Philippines is the only country that does not start their
    academic calendar in August. By altering the academic calendar, Philippine
    education will be forced to improve. Additionally, collaborations with schools
    abroad for programs like Junior Term Abroad or more commonly known as JTA
    and other foreign exchange programs would be much easier to organize. These
    opportunities would not only help students enhance their capabilities but will also
    result to a wider and more globalized education here in our country.
    Another point would be that adjusting the academic calendar would make
    the months more evenly distributed around the breaks. In our countrys academic
    calendar at the moment, we start our school year at June and end at March. This
    would give us a very unorganized and inefficient flow of the semesters. It would
    give us the pattern of: 5 months for the first semester, a 4-day break, a month
    and a half for the first half of the second semester, a 2-week break, and then
    lastly 3 months for the latter part of the second semester. The placement of the
    breaks in this pattern is very irrational as: 1) it cuts the second semester into half,
    and 2) a 4-day break would only disrupt the studying-mindset of the students

    and honestly, a 4-day break is simply not enough time for the students to rest. It
    would be much more practical and efficient if the academic calendar would start
    in August and end at May. Here, the semestral break and the Christmas break
    are combined giving the students a longer rest and a better placement of the
    breaks. As a result, the pattern would then be 5 months for the first semester, a
    2-week break and then 6 months for the second semester. Having combined the
    semestral break and the Christmas break, the academic calendar pattern is not
    anymore as inefficient, time consuming and confusing as the previous pattern.
    Change is needed in order to progress. Education is also needed in
    order to progress. By simply reforming the academic calendar, our educational
    system can start progressing and eventually, our countrys educational system
    could be at par with those aboard. As George Bernard Shaw said: The
    reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in
    trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the
    unreasonable man.

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