TESDA’s Program Will Respond To REALL-DEAL thrust Of The Aquino Administration-Juanillo
By Quirico M. Gorpido, Jr.
Maasin City, Southern Leyte-TESDA’s(Technical Education Skills Development Authority) programs will remain the same but will respond to REALL-DEAL thrust with the new Aquino Administration by adopting its blueprint in accordance with that of the incumbent President’s.
This was the statement uttered by the Southern Leyte TESDA Provincial Director Rolando Juanillo during a recent week interview at his office at the Capitol Site, here.
He informed that the adoption of such thrust was derived from the information received by the TESDA hierarch y in Manila’s main office. This was during their two-day Directorate Meeting held at TESDA’s main office located at Tandang Sora Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City before the end of January 2011.
He claimed the aforementioned meeting was attended by high officials of TESDA, Regional and Provincial Directors, Administrators numbering more or less 200 participants.
The meaning of this aforesaid acronym with the addition of TESD is very long, he implied, and perhaps the very first long meaning of any acronym that each of us has encountered in our readings. Here it is: Reach the grassroots, Empowers the rich, Assure quality skills training and Life-long Learning; to Develop, Enable and Actively engage Labor force members in job opportunities Thru Employability and livelihood Skills Development (REALL-DEAL-TESD).
Juanillo also disclosed in answer to questions that specifically his office do not directly provide skills trainings to its clients/applicants but thru partnership and collaborative efforts with VOCTECH schools located in different areas of Southern Leyte.
However, before voctech schools and colleges can offer skills trainings for interested workers/applicants, Junaillo stressed, each one of them must first be registered under TESDAS’ Unified TVET Program Registration and Accreditation System (UTPRAS).
The purpose for this measure, he said, is “to assure that training providers meet minimum standards for quality assured TVET training delivery system”.
The LGUs that want to conduct skills trainings within its respective municipalities, are likewise required to coordinate with his office, he emphasized, with the possibility that TESDA might grant scholarships to poor but deserving students thru its scholarship and students assistance program, which include also other OFWs.
Courses TESDA is offering are: Massage Therapy, Hairdressing, Blood Pressure Monitoring, Blood Type Sampling, Demo in Bartendering and Waitering, Profiling for Strong Career, Free Service For Computer Hardware, Carpentry. He implied other courses might be considered after discussions and consultations with the TESDA-accredited voctech schools in the province.
On the other hand, records show that in 2009 there were 554 PGs grantees for the province of Southern Leyte. They were enrolled in 9 duly-accredited training institutions in the province. For the Learning Education Program (LEP), there were a total of 109 LEP scholarship grantees from different municipalities. The highest numbers of grantees were from Sogod town. Most of them were enrolled in Commercial Cooking,NC2 leading to Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology major in Food Technology and Building Wirings Installers NC2 leading to BS Industrial Technology major in Electricity.
Also in the same year, TESDA has a total of 3,266 trainees and graduates in various livelihood and skills trainings program in TVET areas which included trainings in the sectors of Agriculture, Tourism, Health, Social and other community development services, automotive and construction. When asked about his office job target, he said that it would be around 1, 226.Nonetheless, Juanillo clarified that TESDA is more on facilitating employment, but the role in getting gainful employment for the skilled graduates rest on the VOCTECH registered schools thru TESDA’s so-called Blue Desk.
He further underscored that his office would always see to it that skills and vocational trainings provided by the authorized schools in the province are relevant to the qualifications abroad.
TheTESDA-accredited institutions are the following: Systems Technology Institute (STI-Maasin), Saint Joseph College, Saint Joseph Vocational Training Center, College Of Maasin, Southern Leyte Business College, St.Thomas Aquinas College-Sogod, St.James College-Padre Burgos, Southern Leyte State University Main Campus-Sogod, Bontoc-SLSU, San Juan Technical Vocational School and Hinunangan Skills and Technological Training.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
Systems Technology Institute(STI)-Maasin,
4th Floor, Zialcita-Oppus Bldg.,
Above Mercury Drug, Maasin City, Southern Leyte.
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Electronic Technology, Hotel and Restaurant Services,
Travel and Tourism. For more information call telephone
Number (053) 381-3744.
Tan Yue Han General Merchandise(Infront of HM Enterprises near Maasin Southern Commercial),Tunga-Tunga,Maasin City,So.Leyte.Dealer of medicinal herbs/plants, imported vitamins and minerals supplements, cosmetics and beauty items, juice drinks,etcetera,at reasonable prices.
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