guess what?
my mech draw and ID elements and principles teacher, Victor Ruel Pambid, topped the licensure exam for interior designers in 1994. i discovered that upon reading an online article on our website.
no wonder he is such a great teacher..and a very patient teacher. actually, he's kind of an inspiration to a lot of his students right now, including me, given the way he teaches and encourages students to do well with the course. and he clearly demonstrates this with giving fair grades to beginners like us.
i swear, i won't forget this teacher. i even intend to teach in the same school after finishing the course. i hope he'd consider, hehe!
here's the article:
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Space for bigger things
Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines - After 30 years of producing some of the country’s best interior designers in a cramped two-story building in Makati, the faculty and staff of the Philippine School of Interior Design (PSID) will soon be moving to a bigger, more student-friendly building in Taguig.
Built from the ground up, the three-story affair on Bayani Road, Fort Bonifacio comes with a basement and modest parking area. Once they’re fully settled in their new home, school administrators and faculty members led by Rosario Cancio-Yujuico, PSID president, will be introducing a number of specialized art programs next year.
“The move brings us closer to our vision of becoming a specialized art center in the Philippines,” says Cancio-Yujuico. “Since we now have the space, we will be offering more seminars and continuing education programs to interested individuals.”
Unlike its interior design courses, these specialized programs are shorter—around six to nine months—and designed specifically for craftsmen and artisans. One such program, to be handled by muralist Alfred Galvez, who’ll fly to Italy in December to undergo further training, focuses on decorative paint finishes.
“In keeping with our goal to market ourselves as an institution, the programs we will be introducing won’t just be about painting,” says Victor Ruel Pambid, PSID director for external affairs. “Aside from honing our students to become skilled craftsmen, we want to produce graduates who are thinkers. We want them to turn this knowledge in conceptualization into their own businesses.”
Apart from slowly turning into a “creative economy,” says Pambid, the country is also entering an age of specialization. As such, PSID plans to introduce a lighting design course two years from now. Beginners need not enroll since the course is designed for practicing interior designers, architects and even engineers.
More space also means additional room to hold review classes for interior design graduates intending to take the board exams. Because of space constraints, Pambid and company have been catering exclusively to PSID graduates. Thanks to its new and bigger building, this situation will soon be a thing of the past.
“Having been around for only five years, PSID’s review classes are fairly new,” says Pambid, an aspiring doctor who later shifted to interior design and eventually topped the board in 1994. “But we’re getting better in terms of results because we train our graduates to answer design questions well.”
With a passing rate of 55 percent (much higher than the national average of 35 to 40 percent), PSID has earned a coveted slot in the “top three,” alongside the University of Santo Tomas and the University of the Philippines.
PSID would have earned such an honor sooner, says Pambid, had its earlier batches of successful examinees been credited to it and not to other schools. The confusion stemmed from the fact that PSID, since its inception, only offers interior design subjects.
Students who wish to earn a bachelor’s degree in interior design (and, thus, make themselves eligible to take the board) have to cross-enroll with other colleges and universities in order to take up general subjects such as Math, Pilipino and English.
In fact, PSID has an existing arrangement with the College of St. Benilde for this purpose. Moving to bigger digs won’t likely change the school’s thrust.
“We don’t see the need. Most of our students are either college graduates or transferees from other schools,” says Pambid. “It’s quite seldom that we encounter students fresh out of high school.”
With the opening of its new building, PSID also expects an increase in the number of enrollees. Although the school welcomes such a development, it will never sacrifice quality over quantity, Pambid assures.
“It’s not easy to run a good interior design school,” says Cancio-Yujuico. “For one, it’s quite difficult to get qualified interior design teachers because most of the good ones are either reluctant to teach or have gone abroad in search of greener pastures.”
Becoming a full-fledged college is also not part of PSID’s agenda. Building or no building, it would rather focus on what it does best, which is to provide students with the best interior design education available. Alex Y. Vergara
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