TESDA bares programs to boost employability, entrepreneurship (Philippines)

> The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) announced that it is implementing seven new programs for 2012 to boost the employability, livelihood and entrepreneurial skills of Filipinos.

In a letter for President Benigno Aquino III dated January 30, TESDA Director General Emmanuel Joel Villanueva said these seven programs form part of TESDA’s new platform of governance dubbed REAL DEAL TESD that aims to “answer the what, where, when, who and how the agency will place itself to benefit the greater part of the community it serves.”

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REAL DEAL TESD (Reach the grassroots, Empower the reached. Assure quality training and Lifelong education Development. Enable, and Actively-engage Labor force members in job opportunities thru employability and livelihood skills) encompasses the agency’s desire to marshal the entire resources of TESDA towards a proactive response to the President’s call for “Landas na Matuwid” and do away with a government that is insensitive to the plight of the ordinary citizen.

To achieve this, TESDA will focus its resources on managing technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in the Philippines with stewardship and inclusiveness as its twin underpinning principles.

Of the seven, five are training and retooling programs while the other two are partnerships with government and a private company for the certification of public utility drivers and empowering women retailers, respectively.

These programs include:

1. IT-BPO Talent Investment Program that will train 65,000 scholars to qualify for jobs in the business process outsourcing industry;
2. TESDA-SEIPI (Semi-conductor and Electronics Industry of the Philippines) Partnership for the Semi-Conductor Electronics Industry that will train more than 9,000 new and existing workers to keep them geared up for the demands of the semi-conductor and electronics industry;
3. Partnership with PLDT (Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co.) for the training of 1,300 technicians;
4. TESDA-Holcim Partnership to train some 2,200 out-of-school-youths in construction trades such as masonry, carpentry and blueprint reading certification;
5. Partnership with LTRFB (Land Transportation Regulation and Franchising Bureau) in PUV driver’s certification;
6. TESDA Specialista Technopreneurship Programs that brings together stakeholders to serve the multifarious service requirements of households and small communities; and
7. Updates on TESDA-Coke National Convergence Program on Empowering Women Retailers.

Villanueva said these programs are also in line with the public-private partnership thrust of the Aquino government.

source: Cool Buster

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