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The move is in response to globalisation<\/span><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n <\/em>MANILA, Philippines<\/span><\/span><\/strong>\u2014Two of the country\u2019s top schools\u2014the University of the Philippines (UP) and Ateneo de Manila University\u2014announced a change in the academic calendar, shifting the opening of classes from June to August. <\/span><\/p>\n Classes at UP in Manila, Los Ba\u00f1os, Baguio, Cebu,<\/span> <\/span> <\/span>the Visayas and Mindanao, and UP Open University will start in August and end in May, but UP Diliman, which has \u201cnot completed consultations,\u201d and UP Integrated School will still follow the old schedule. <\/span><\/p>\n The first semester will run from August to December, the second semester from January to May, and a short term from June to July. <\/span><\/p>\n Ateneo will start the new schedule in academic year 2015-2016 in the Loyola Schools and the Professional Schools. Ateneo Grade School and High School will retain the June to March academic calendar. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The move is in response to globalisation MANILA, Philippines\u2014Two of the country\u2019s top schools\u2014the University of the Philippines (UP) and Ateneo de Manila University\u2014announced a change in the academic calendar, shifting the opening of classes from June to August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}