17/03/2026
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Last November, the Center for Transformative Education of the Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences (FBeSS-CTE) participated in the PULSO Symposium on Data, Democracy, and Youth Engagement, organized by the UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies (CIDS) Program on Social and Political Change (PSPC), in partnership with the Philippine Political Science Association (PPSA) and San Beda University.
Representing the Center in this important engagement were Asst. Prof. Timothy James L. Cipriano, Center Head, and Josef Vincent P. Reyes, a PNU alumnus and former student assistant and researcher of the Center, who presented their study, โWhat Does a Candidate-Centric Democracy Mean for Education? A Case for Provincial Education Spending and Electoral Dynamics in the Philippines, 2001โ2022.โ Their presentation examined how the personalized character of Philippine elections shapes governance at the provincial level, particularly in relation to education spending and institutional stability, using a province-year dataset on electoral votes and fiscal spending from 2001 to 2022 drawn from the Local Government Dataset of UP CIDS-PSPC.
The Centerโs participation in this symposium reflects its continuing commitment to advancing research-based conversations on governance, education, and democratic participation. Through engagements such as this, the Center contributes to broader scholarly and public discussions that strengthen transformative and evidence-informed approaches to social development.
You may view the full proceedings of the event, released by UP CIDS, through this link: https://cids.up.edu.ph/download/data-democracy-youth-engagement/. The full paper of the study will be released soon.