Editor's Note Volume 9, Number 1

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How do we measure the impact of Philippine education? Is it in the honor graduates we produce? The workers we export? Or those students who chose to stay in the country and help build its future? TALA opens publication year 2026 with the haunting reality of these questions as the liberal and humanist education, a legacy of our forebears since the introduction of universities in the country, is being undermined by external factors, chief among them the elimination of general education courses that aim to hone not only the mind, but the hand, and the heart.

Author Biography

Melanie Magpantay, San Beda University

MELANIE J. MAGPANTAY has been in the academe as a licensed professional teacher and a researcher for over a decade. She finished her social science undergraduate, master’s, and doctorate in History at the University of Santo Tomas.

Ms. Magpantay began her career as an educator in Espiritu Santo Parochial School from 2008 to 2022 before she transitioned to teaching Readings in Philippine History and Life and Works of Rizal in the tertiary level. She is now affiliated with the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities of San Beda University where she serves as Assistant Professorial Lecturer. She is also an editorial board member of TALA: An Online Journal of History since 2018.

Ms. Magpantay has presented at national conferences on topics about Philippine church history, women in Philippine history, and church bells of the Philippines.

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2026-06-30

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Magpantay, M. . “Editor’s Note Volume 9, Number 1”. TALA: An Online Journal of History, vol. 9, no. 1, June 2026, p. i-iii, http://talakasaysayan.org/index.php/talakasaysayan/article/view/307.

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Vol. 9 No. 1 (2026): Volume 9 Number 1 (June 2026)

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