Whereas the Philippine academe promotes students to hold a degree; parents highly encourage and (more often than the normal) oblige children to get hold of a white-collar job; and corporates’ basic requirements are at least college graduates, scholars adopt and establish all these as standards and choose to augment their education by acquiring post-graduate diplomas. Being in a traditionally-and-socially-engaged country, we act according to norms and social changes which directly lead us to become education-conscious.
