AN EDUCATION student of St. Theresa’s College (STC) in Cebu City ranked first in the secondary level of this year’s License Examination for Teachers (LET).
Ruth Yuhico Dicdican, the third daughter of Court of Appeals Justice Isaias Dicdican, topped over 17,000 new secondary school teachers with a rating of 91.8 percent.
The first placer in the elementary level is from Tarlac State University and had a rating of 90.8 percent.
Ruth finished cum laude for a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering degree at the University of the Philippines in Diliman in 1993.
She completed her masters in engineering at the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand in 1996 and her masters of science in operations research at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, in 1999.
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She also completed her doctorate in Philosophy in Systems Engineering at the University of Virginia in 2004.
She completed 18 units in Education at STC to qualify for the LET.
Ruth, who values nationalism, wants to share and impart to Filipinos whatever knowledge she acquired in her studies abroad.
Close to 100,000 examinees took the Let last Aug. 27 in 18 testing centers nationwide.
