F.P.A. Demeterio III
Dr. Feorillo A. Demeterio III is a Distinguished Full Professor of the Department of Filipino, College of Liberal Arts, the Executive Director of the Research and Grants Management Office, De La Salle University. He is the author of the books Ang mga Ideolohiyang Politikal ng Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (2012), Ferdinand Blumentritt and the Philippines (2013), The Socio-Political Discourses of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (2018), and Ang Mindanao sa Hiraya ni Ferdinand Blumentritt (2022). He co-authored the books From Exceptionality to Exceptional: Inclusion of Differently Abled Persons in the Workplace (2014), and Cataloging and Baselining the Filipino-Spanish Churches of the Diocese of Maasin, on the Island of Leyte (2020). He is the author/co-author of over a hundred articles on hermeneutics, cultural studies, heritage studies, and Filipino philosophy that are published in a number of local and international journals. He served as a visiting research professor at the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., in 2013, and at the Divinity School of Chung Chi College, Chinese University of Hong Kong, in 2021. In 2014, Dr. Demeterio was recognized as an outstanding alumnus in the field of philosophy by the Graduate School of the University of Santo Tomas. In 2022, he was given the Matthew Eichler Memorial Fellowship in Education by the Asia-Pacific Consortium of Researchers and Educators. He is a co-founder of the Andrew Gonzalez Philippine Citation Index.
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• The Philippines does not have functional research universities, nor does it have a central plan on how to transition which of its selected higher educational institutions (HEIs) into such research universities.
• The Scopus data will show that the country’s annual research production
is much lower than the average ASEAN curve.
• The country only has a handful of comprehensive, research-intensive
higher educational institutions (HEIs).
• If we visualize research culture and research productivity as things that are directly shaped by human resources and research infrastructure, which in turn are shaped by research leadership and management, in the absence of functional research universities, having a critical mass of research capable human resources is the most difficult element to replicate in the less research-intensive higher educational institutions (HEIs).
Hence, this policy research argues for a centrally planned and supported targeted human resource development partnership program (THRDPP) among the Philippines’ first-tier comprehensive research-intensive HEIs and its second-tier research-intensive state universities and colleges (SUCs).
The problems pursued by this policy research are:
• What were the last attempts of the Commission on Education (CHED) to
incubate the research capacities of our country’s research-intensive HEIs?
• What were the problems encountered by such attempts?
• Can such attempts be fine-tuned?
• Are there successful analogous programs initiated in the ASEAN
region?
• What lessons can the country glean from such benchmarks?
• What targeted human resource development partnership program
(THRDPP) can be designed to pair our country’s first-tier comprehensive
research-intensive HEIs and its second-tier research-intensive state
universities and colleges (SUCs)?
• How can we identify our country’s first tier research-intensive HEIs, as well as our country’s second-tier research intensive state universities and colleges (SUCs)?
• How can we pair the two groups so that disciplinary strengths are matched?
• What specific projects and activities should be implemented among the
paired HEIs to maximize the potential of research-capacity incubation?
In addressing these research problems, the following mixed methodologies were used:
• Policy review of Commission on Education’s (CHED’s) Zonal Research
Centers (ZRCs) Program of 2000, the Philippine Higher Education Research Network (PHERNet) Program of 2011, and the Higher Educational Regional Research Centers (HERRCs) Program of
the same year;
• A benchmark of the central strategies of Malaysia, Vietnam, and Indonesia;
• Analysis of the publication data using the Scopus database and the SciVal Analytics application; and
• Key informant interviews with selected research managers of the two groups of HEIs.
The key findings/recommendations of this policy research are:
• Commission on Education (CHED) had three recent attempts to incubate the research capacities of our country’s research-intensive HEIs, namely the Zonal Research Centers (ZRCs), the Philippine Higher Education Research Network (PHERNet), and the Higher Educational Regional Research Centers (HERRCs) programs.
• These programs were not based on cooperation, partnerships, and
autonomy to conceptualize and run multiyear partnership projects.
• The Philippine Higher Education Research Network (PHERNet) and the
Higher Educational Regional Research Centers (HERRCs) programs can be
fine-tuned into a leaner but more focused partnership program.
• The Philippines can benchmark Malaysia’s focused transformation
of just a few of their best teaching HEIs into research universities. The
Philippines can also benchmark Vietnam’s provision of public research
funding against their best HEIs. A targeted human resource development
partnership program (THRDPP) can be designed in a way that involves
a bibliometrically-paired first-tier comprehensive research-intensive HEI and a second-tier research-intensive SUC. These pairs should be based on the principles of cooperation, institutional mentoring, given autonomy, as well as funding to conceptualize and pursue multiyear projects such as:
• Scholarships for MS/A and PhD by research to second-tier HEI faculty
members in their designated first-tier HEI partners;
• Visiting professorships for first-tier HEI faculty members in their designated second-tier HEI partners;
• Research fellowships for second-tier HEI faculty members in their designated first-tier HEI partners;
• Research grants that partner HEIs will jointly undertake;
• Co-mentoring appointments for first tier HEI faculty members to graduate
students from their second-tier HEI partners; and
• Other similar high-impact strategies.
This policy research is significant in the sense that:
• This grapples with the issue of “lack of capacity to produce quality research in universities” under EDCOM II of the Republic of the Philippines’s Priority Area 13 “graduate education, research,
and innovation;”
• This will provide the host HEIs and the mentored HEIs the opportunity
to improve their research capacities further and strengthen their national
networks;
• This will create a multiplier effect as the mentored HEIs develop their own research and mentoring capacities;
• This will eventually improve the higher education ecosystem in the country;
• Improved research capacity will eventually translate into our country’s
economic, social, cultural, and political power.
Filipino esteem for the lighter skin color, as well as in pointing out that such esteem is shaped by generational and gender variations among the respondents.
muling pagpapalakas ng industriyang ito. Sinuri ng papel na ito ang kalakasan at kahinaan ng mga estratehiyang isinasagawa ng mga stakeholder sa Bayan ng Miagao para sa muling pagpapalakas ng paghahablon, gamit ang process value chain ni Michael Porter at general principles of strategy evaluation ni Richard Rumelt bilang mga teoretikal na balangkas. Tinutugunan ng papel na ito ang pangunahing suliranin na kung sapat ba ang mga ginagawang estratehiya ng mga stakeholder para sa kanilang hinahangad na muling pagpapalakas ng paghahablon. Mahalaga ang papel na ito para makita ng iba’t ibang stakeholder ang kani-kanilang mga ginagawa at maisip nila kung ano-ano pa ang dapat
nilang gawin para sa parehong hangarin. Mahalaga rin ang papel na ito para sa mga stakeholder ng mga kahalintulad na tradisyunal na industriya o gawain, para
makita nila bilang benchmark ang kuwento ng paghahablon sa Bayan ng Miagao.
• The Philippines does not have functional research universities, nor does it have a central plan on how to transition which of its selected higher educational institutions (HEIs) into such research universities.
• The Scopus data will show that the country’s annual research production
is much lower than the average ASEAN curve.
• The country only has a handful of comprehensive, research-intensive
higher educational institutions (HEIs).
• If we visualize research culture and research productivity as things that are directly shaped by human resources and research infrastructure, which in turn are shaped by research leadership and management, in the absence of functional research universities, having a critical mass of research capable human resources is the most difficult element to replicate in the less research-intensive higher educational institutions (HEIs).
Hence, this policy research argues for a centrally planned and supported targeted human resource development partnership program (THRDPP) among the Philippines’ first-tier comprehensive research-intensive HEIs and its second-tier research-intensive state universities and colleges (SUCs).
The problems pursued by this policy research are:
• What were the last attempts of the Commission on Education (CHED) to
incubate the research capacities of our country’s research-intensive HEIs?
• What were the problems encountered by such attempts?
• Can such attempts be fine-tuned?
• Are there successful analogous programs initiated in the ASEAN
region?
• What lessons can the country glean from such benchmarks?
• What targeted human resource development partnership program
(THRDPP) can be designed to pair our country’s first-tier comprehensive
research-intensive HEIs and its second-tier research-intensive state
universities and colleges (SUCs)?
• How can we identify our country’s first tier research-intensive HEIs, as well as our country’s second-tier research intensive state universities and colleges (SUCs)?
• How can we pair the two groups so that disciplinary strengths are matched?
• What specific projects and activities should be implemented among the
paired HEIs to maximize the potential of research-capacity incubation?
In addressing these research problems, the following mixed methodologies were used:
• Policy review of Commission on Education’s (CHED’s) Zonal Research
Centers (ZRCs) Program of 2000, the Philippine Higher Education Research Network (PHERNet) Program of 2011, and the Higher Educational Regional Research Centers (HERRCs) Program of
the same year;
• A benchmark of the central strategies of Malaysia, Vietnam, and Indonesia;
• Analysis of the publication data using the Scopus database and the SciVal Analytics application; and
• Key informant interviews with selected research managers of the two groups of HEIs.
The key findings/recommendations of this policy research are:
• Commission on Education (CHED) had three recent attempts to incubate the research capacities of our country’s research-intensive HEIs, namely the Zonal Research Centers (ZRCs), the Philippine Higher Education Research Network (PHERNet), and the Higher Educational Regional Research Centers (HERRCs) programs.
• These programs were not based on cooperation, partnerships, and
autonomy to conceptualize and run multiyear partnership projects.
• The Philippine Higher Education Research Network (PHERNet) and the
Higher Educational Regional Research Centers (HERRCs) programs can be
fine-tuned into a leaner but more focused partnership program.
• The Philippines can benchmark Malaysia’s focused transformation
of just a few of their best teaching HEIs into research universities. The
Philippines can also benchmark Vietnam’s provision of public research
funding against their best HEIs. A targeted human resource development
partnership program (THRDPP) can be designed in a way that involves
a bibliometrically-paired first-tier comprehensive research-intensive HEI and a second-tier research-intensive SUC. These pairs should be based on the principles of cooperation, institutional mentoring, given autonomy, as well as funding to conceptualize and pursue multiyear projects such as:
• Scholarships for MS/A and PhD by research to second-tier HEI faculty
members in their designated first-tier HEI partners;
• Visiting professorships for first-tier HEI faculty members in their designated second-tier HEI partners;
• Research fellowships for second-tier HEI faculty members in their designated first-tier HEI partners;
• Research grants that partner HEIs will jointly undertake;
• Co-mentoring appointments for first tier HEI faculty members to graduate
students from their second-tier HEI partners; and
• Other similar high-impact strategies.
This policy research is significant in the sense that:
• This grapples with the issue of “lack of capacity to produce quality research in universities” under EDCOM II of the Republic of the Philippines’s Priority Area 13 “graduate education, research,
and innovation;”
• This will provide the host HEIs and the mentored HEIs the opportunity
to improve their research capacities further and strengthen their national
networks;
• This will create a multiplier effect as the mentored HEIs develop their own research and mentoring capacities;
• This will eventually improve the higher education ecosystem in the country;
• Improved research capacity will eventually translate into our country’s
economic, social, cultural, and political power.
Filipino esteem for the lighter skin color, as well as in pointing out that such esteem is shaped by generational and gender variations among the respondents.
muling pagpapalakas ng industriyang ito. Sinuri ng papel na ito ang kalakasan at kahinaan ng mga estratehiyang isinasagawa ng mga stakeholder sa Bayan ng Miagao para sa muling pagpapalakas ng paghahablon, gamit ang process value chain ni Michael Porter at general principles of strategy evaluation ni Richard Rumelt bilang mga teoretikal na balangkas. Tinutugunan ng papel na ito ang pangunahing suliranin na kung sapat ba ang mga ginagawang estratehiya ng mga stakeholder para sa kanilang hinahangad na muling pagpapalakas ng paghahablon. Mahalaga ang papel na ito para makita ng iba’t ibang stakeholder ang kani-kanilang mga ginagawa at maisip nila kung ano-ano pa ang dapat
nilang gawin para sa parehong hangarin. Mahalaga rin ang papel na ito para sa mga stakeholder ng mga kahalintulad na tradisyunal na industriya o gawain, para
makita nila bilang benchmark ang kuwento ng paghahablon sa Bayan ng Miagao.