The smarter wife

Did you know 1: In an effort to be more relevant, Mapua Institute of Technology president Reynaldo Vea has gotten board approval to introduce business-oriented courses such as accounting for the school year 2005-2006.

Last year, MIT opened its campus to, yes, nursing.

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Did you know 2: My, my. Landing a job as a nurse or a caregiver in England must be either lucrative or expensive. Under the rules set by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, placement fees charged by recruitment agencies should not be more than a month’s salary of the accepted applicant.

At least one recruitment agency – this is St. George International – has just increased its placement fee from between P80,000 and P100,000 to between P150,000 and P250,000. (By the way, one English pound is currently equivalent to P104).

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It turns out that this top banker is not just a "battered" husband, he’s equally scared of his mother and of his younger sister.

All three women, of course, have strong personalities.

In the case of the wife, the banker shrugs his shoulders when his colleagues tease him about his alacrity in doing his wife’s bidding. He says his wife is smarter than he is anyway. Fact is, his wife has plotted his so far successful career.

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Bangko Sentral Governor Rafael Buenaventura is one happy lameduck. Why Paeng Buenaventura has already stopped counting every day that passes before his term ends middle of the year since President Macapagal-Arroyo has named Amando Tetangco Jr. as the incoming governor.

As everybody knows, Mr. Buenaventura will not be able to work with any bank or with any company which has had dealings with the Bangko Sentral (including those which had to get Monetary Board approval for their foreign borrowings) for two years after the end of his term as governor.

That means Mr. Buenaventura will have a lot of time on his hands to either play golf or to micro-manage his household currently run by wife, Victoria Rufino-Buenaventura.

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Oops! Just because Jesus Estanislao is a senior officer of the Opus Dei movement and attends mass first thing every morning doesn’t mean he completed a degree in theology.

Jess Estanislao, who is the country’s most prominent advocate of corporate governance, majored in economics thrice – at the University of San Carlos in Cebu for his undergraduate degree, at Fordham University in New York for his graduate degree, and at Harvard University in Massachusetts for his post-graduate degree.