Pag-aaral para sa mga ‘single’ plano ng DOST

NASA mid-30s ka na ba at single pa rin? Kung oo, maghanda para sa isang pag-aaral na posibleng isagawa ng Department of Science and Technology (DOST)-National Research Council of the Philippines (NCRP).

Ito ay matapos magpahayag si DOST Secretary Fortunato T. dela Peña ng pangamba hinggil sa lumalagong bilang ng mga indibiduwal na enjoy sa pagiging single.

“Although I don’t know whether it is a problem. Sometimes, we in our friendships circles discuss the opposite and this is the late marrying age of some of our children. While there is problem of teenage pregnancy, we have children who are already late beyond marrying age who are still single. I think that that has been observed also, maybe, that can be studied later on by the NCRP,” pahayag ng kalihim sa ginanap kamakailan na seventh KTOP-COVID (Kapakanan ng Tao sa Oras ng Pandemya – COVID) webinar series “The Stories of Filipino Pregnant Teenagers and Teenage Mothers During the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis.”

Hangad ng NCRP, na binubuo ng mga highly-trained at productive scientists at researchers, na matugunan ang demand para sa kaalaman, kasanayan at inobasyon sa agham at humanidades at makapag-ambag sa nation-building at pagpapabuti ng kalidad ng buhay ng mga Pilipino pagsapit ng 2025.

Hiniling din ni Dela Peña sa NCRP na pag-aralan ang dalawang pangunahing social issue sa panahon ng coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

“I would suggest to have a study if we can still do it. One, is actually the effect of the current policies on education, it is being well discussed now and debated upon,” aniya.

“The prolong stay of our children at home, it is not in fact blended learning, it is 100-percent remote learning. Personally, I am concerned. My granchildren, at least those who are here have become fat. Since the remote learning they are at home, of course they are in front of the computer and then maybe after a while , they eat and there is no physically activity.”

Iminungkahi rin ng DOST Chief na pag-aralan ng NCRP kung paano sumasabay ang mga tao sa kasalukuyang paghihirap ng ekonomiya sa pamamagitan ng entrepreneurship.

“Sabi nga nila (They say), there are many enterpreneurs, ‘yung iba (others) by force of circumstances because they lost their jobs and they have to keep on earning something for the family and ther other one, is out of boredom… They are in fact in the high income bracket who have become bored out of doing nothing that they experimented on new enterprises and some among them have become very successful and of course, the shifting products by entrepreneurs, whereas before they were manufacturing lambanog, they are now disinfectant alcohol. These things are something interesting that could be studied.”