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1. According to Conrado de Quiros’ “What’s Education For?”, Gill Westaway, British Council Executive Director, said that the Philippines has an oversupply of universities and colleges. Westaway added that having fewer universities with quality is better than having hundreds of universities weakening the overall quality. Westaway’s statement is predicated on the study conducted by the British Council and funded by Asian Development Bank.
2. Paragraph 1 serves as the introduction of the essay. De Quiros starts the essay by stating Gill Westaway’s remarks about the state of the number of universities and colleges in the country. Including Westaway’s statement in the first paragraph is a good method to inform the readers about the situation and to give them an overview or a hint about the general idea of the essay.
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1. Conrade de Quiros believes that if the point of education is to just help students find jobs, then the college education of the country is ineffective and unnecessary. He also thinks that it is just four or five years of wasting time and effort. There are no jobs available for most of the college graduates that only few of the thousands of them will succeed while the rest suffer unemployment.
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In addition, the author also expresses a tone of disgust and disappointment regarding the issue by the way he also suggested of removing, to the degree he uses the word “scrapping”, all the existing colleges and universities and just to put up employment schools. The author expressed his disgust even further by being sarcastic in his statement “I am not being not being entirely facetious when I say maybe we should also put up pop music
1. According to Conrado de Quiros’ “What’s Education For?”, Gill Westaway, British Council Executive Director, said that the Philippines has an oversupply of universities and colleges. Westaway added that having fewer universities with quality is better than having hundreds of universities weakening the overall quality. Westaway’s statement is predicated on the study conducted by the British Council and funded by Asian Development Bank.
2. Paragraph 1 serves as the introduction of the essay. De Quiros starts the essay by stating Gill Westaway’s remarks about the state of the number of universities and colleges in the country. Including Westaway’s statement in the first paragraph is a good method to inform the readers about the situation and to give them an overview or a hint about the general idea of the essay.
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1. Conrade de Quiros believes that if the point of education is to just help students find jobs, then the college education of the country is ineffective and unnecessary. He also thinks that it is just four or five years of wasting time and effort. There are no jobs available for most of the college graduates that only few of the thousands of them will succeed while the rest suffer unemployment.
2. Paragraph 2 serves as the 1st part …show more content…
In addition, the author also expresses a tone of disgust and disappointment regarding the issue by the way he also suggested of removing, to the degree he uses the word “scrapping”, all the existing colleges and universities and just to put up employment schools. The author expressed his disgust even further by being sarcastic in his statement “I am not being not being entirely facetious when I say maybe we should also put up pop music