Ramos calls for educated workers

Ramos calls for educated workers

MANILA (AFP): The Philippines is losing its competitive edge
in providing low-cost labor and must upgrade its educational
standards to offer more skilled labor instead, President Fidel
Ramos said yesterday.

"We have been competing as a nation on the strength of our
low-cost labor," he told local university officials.

"But this competitive edge is fading as other countries like
Vietnam, India, Indonesia and China, have entered the global
economy with cheaper labor."

He credited economic tigers like Singapore and Taiwan with
becoming internationally competitive through education but
admitted that "in competition among the titans, we are still many
miles away."