LINES OF QUOTATIONS

"With economic integration, the expectation is that the ten ASEAN countries will become
more globally competitive as a group and be better able to achieve equitable economic
development across the region."
- Alfredo E. Pascual, UP President (June 2014)

"Philippine Architecture and Design, on an industrial level, needs to form a solid image
that is rooted in our culture, history, our progress, and our knowledge of construction
technology."
- Amor Maclang (September 15, 2014)

"The Philippines needs to ensure that its growth is inclusive, one that gives opportunity
to many and reduces poverty."
- Lawrence Jeff Johnson (October 28, 2014)

"We will be facing competition with fellow Asians wherein we are beating with those who
believe they are better educated than us, we are beating against people who also work
as good as us."
- PSME National President Engr. Ramon Picornell (October 3, 2014)

"Filipino professionals will be measured not by the competency of the educational

institution or the names of their schools and colleges but on their individual
competencies."
- Teresita Manzala (September 3, 2013)

"ASEAN Integration, with various efforts being pushed and undertaken in the field of
recognition of university degrees and qualifications including professional licenses, will
result in enhanced mobility of students and professionals in the region."
If you look at the rank of our schools compared to other Asean countries and all over
the world, we have a lot of schools that are strong in engineering. Coupled with English
as the medium of instruction, we have an advantage,
- Levy Espiritu, President of DATEM Inc (June 26, 2014)

But so far, only the skills of architects and engineers who are registered with the
professional regulatory body both in their home countries and at the regional level will
receive cross border recognition.
-Sanchita Basu Das (September 27, 2014)

The Asean is in the right place of the world for the next thirty to fifty years. We can ease
doing business in ASEAN countries by simplifying rules, investing in infrastructure, and
increasing connectivity.

-Cesar V. Purisima (February 7, 2014)

On the flip side, talent mobility will provide more opportunity for us engineers to seek
better opportunities overseas.
-Rafael Nestor Chicho V. Mantaring (April 29, 2014)

This integration of Asean economies will provide opportunities for our skilled workers
to work in other Asean countries.
-Antonio Basilio (2014)
The prospect of large gains in such jobs calls for coordinated labor market policies to
improve working conditions and reduce vulnerability. To this end, industrial and sectoral
policies can steer the patter of structural change towards higher value-added agroindustries and service sectors, such as the case of the business process outsourcing
industry.
-Elizabeth Marcelo (October 2014)