S.K.P.S.C.-BANGKOK - GradDipT Graduation

International Academy of Management and Economics
Holds Joint Commencement Exercises with
Sultan Kudarat Polytechnic State College
in Bangkok, Thailand

All roads lead to Bangkok, Thailand on Saturday, March 29 2009 for the Joint Commencement Exercises of the International Academy of Management and Economics and the Sultan Kudarat Polytechnic State College.

Dr. Nona S. Ricafort of the Commission on Higher Education, Republic of the Philippines this year’s commencement speaker, leads the dignitaries who confirmed their attendance. Sectary and TESDA Director General Augusto “Boboy’ Syjuco will receive a PhD in Management (Honoris Causa) from the International Academy of Management and Economics, while Mr. Benigno N. Ricafort, president & CEO of Clark Development Corporation; and Dr. Usira Anomasiri, member of the Teacher’s Council of Thailand will receive their PhD in Institutional Development and Management (Honoris Causa) from the Sultan Kudarat Polytechnic State College. Ambassador Antonio Rodriguez, Philippine Ambassador to Thailand, and Dr. Ramon Ricardo Roque, Deputy Secretary General of the House of Representatives, Republic of the Philippines will assist in the investiture of the Honorees. The two presidents, Dr. Emmanuel T. Santos of IAME, and Dr. Teresita L. Cambel of SKPSC will do the honors of conferring their respective Doctorate degrees.

Sultan Kudarat Polytechnic State College is a fast growing state college in Tacurong City that responded to the call of Ambassador Antonio Rodriguez to help the more than 30,000 Filipino teachers in Thailand who are facing retrenchment should they fail to acquire a Teaching Certificate which is now a requirement in Thailand. Fully backed up by the Private School Teacher’s Association of Thailand headed by Dr. Usira Anomasiri, Filipino Teachers in Thailand can now be assured of continuous employment after getting their Diploma from SKPSC. On March 29, some 25 Filipino Teachers will receive their Graduate Diploma in Teaching Certificate from Dr. Teresita L. Cambel, the president of Sultan Kudarat Polytechnic State College. SKPSC at 19 is certainly a very young college but its phenomenal record of having been ranked 15th in a long list of more than 100 state colleges and universities in the country is a testimony to its forward looking direction, reaching out to as many Filipinos in Bangkok and the world.

The International Academy of Management and Economics is an ISO and WES accredited HEI in Makati City. This year’s batch of graduates included 10 PhD’s in Management and 33 MBA’s. Dr. Emmanuel T. Santos will once again hand to these graduates their respective diplomas that will surely arm them to respond to greater employment opportunities waiting for them. Through a consortium agreement with Sultan Kudarat Polytechnic State College, IAME will be able to spread its mission of providing world-class education to Filipinos world-wide.

IAME and SKPSC’s consortium arrangement and its off-campus operations are made possible through a MOA with St. Robert’s International Academy that pioneered in educational marketing in the Philippines. Among others, SRIA is also doing educational marketing for PWU and PCU graduate schools. This innovative programme and the forward looking direction of IAME and SKPSC’s presidents are making possible the offering of quality Philippine education to Filipinos and foreigners abroad. Operating within the legal framework of CHED and TESDA, IAME, SKPSC and SRIA are contributing to the development of the Philippine economy.