Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
There are more than 42,000 known major and minor festivals in the Philippines, the majority of which are in the barangay (village) level. Due to the thousands of town, city, provincial, national, and village fiestas in the country, the Philippines has traditionally been known as the Capital of the World's Festivities.
The University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP), established in 1938, is an athletic association of eight Metro Manila universities in the Philippines.The eight-member schools are Adamson University (AdU), Ateneo de Manila University, [a] De La Salle University (DLSU), Far Eastern University (FEU), National University (NU), University of the East (UE), University of the ...
The Palarong Pambansa ( Filipino for "National Games") is an annual multi-sport event involving student-athletes from 17 regions of the Philippines. The event, started in 1948, is organized and governed by the Department of Education . Student-athletes from public and private schools at elementary and secondary levels can compete, provided they ...
The culture of the Philippines is characterized by cultural and ethnic diversity. [1] Although the multiple ethnic groups of the Philippine archipelago have only recently established a shared Filipino national identity, [2] their cultures were all shaped by the geography and history of the region, [3] [4] and by centuries of interaction with neighboring cultures, and colonial powers.
Show map of Visayas Show map of Philippines Show all. The University of St. La Salle (USLS) is a Catholic private research university run by the De La Salle Brothers, located in La Salle Avenue, Bacolod, Negros Occidental, Philippines. Established in 1952 as La Salle College - Bacolod, it is the second oldest campus founded by the congregation ...
A 12th-grade student of a secondary school that is accredited by the Department of Education; A graduate of any secondary school that is accredited by the Department of Education, or of any secondary school abroad; or; An individual that has been declared eligible to enter college according to the Philippine Educational Placement Test (PEPT ...
According to the 2020 census , almost 88% of the population is Christian; about 79% belong to the Catholic Church while about 9% belong to Protestantism and other denominations such as Philippine Independent Church, Iglesia ni Cristo, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventist Church, Apostolic Catholic Church, United Church of Christ in the Philippines, Members Church of God International ...
In 2020, owing to the COVID pandemic, the school year moved for the first time to a shorter term beginning October of 2020 and ending in June of 2021. The 2021-22 calendar finally returned to the dates mentioned by law with August of 2021 as its opening, bringing the year in line with the university academic calendar.