Tesda prepares workforce for 4th Industrial Revolution
TARLAC CITY -- Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) bared Thursday the strategic plan to meet the demands of the digital age and ensure that the workforce has appropriate and relevant skills.
During the second episode of the Dagyaw Central Luzon: The Open Government Virtual Town Hall Meeting 2020, TESDA Regional Director Jesus Fajardo said the advent of the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) will affect 18.2 million jobs nationwide wherein most are low-skilled workers, youth and less educated.
“There will be a higher demand for a skilled workforce in large employment industries. For the next six years, six million quality workers are needed by industries that are forecasted to generate larger employment markets,” Fajardo explained.
The future jobs over the next 10 years will include digital tailor, virtual store Sherpa, personal memory curator, quantum machine learning analysts, augmented reality journey builder, financial wellness coach, fitness commitment counselor among others.
With this, Fajardo cited TESDA’s strategic thrusts to address the problems of the excluded and leftbehind Filipino workforce.
“To match the regional development opportunities, we are pushing for Technical Vocational Education
and Training (TVET) for Global Competitiveness and Workforce Readiness, and TVET for Social Equity. In line with these thrusts are our strategic responses namely: agility, scalability, and flexibility and sustainability,” he said.
Under these responses is the creation of a conducive and enabling environment for the development and quality service delivery of the TVET sector.
“Our plans underway which include adopting enterprise-based training as a dominant mode; pushing for TVET international standards; and implementing Skills Needed Anticipation to identify skills requirements will address the challenges posed by the 4IR,” he explained.
Also, TESDA targets to assure industries with high economic and employment growth potentials by providing the required quantity of quality workforce.
“We will directly address workforce needs of the basic sector and instill values and integrity in the conduct and delivery of TVET in the whole sector,” he noted.
Among the priority industries of TESDA are tourism, hotels and restaurants, construction, IT-BPO, transport, communication, manufacturing, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, health, wellness and other social services. (PIA 3)
DINALUPIHAN, Bataan--- The municipal government shared Wednesday its best practices in its fight against Tuberculosis (TB).
These include enhanced community case finding especially in hard to reach areas amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, continuing advocacy campaign, and sector specific TB screening with prioritization gi ven to drug surrenderees, persons deprived of liberty andpublic transport gr ou ps.
“Every health challenge must not be responded with a single approach since it is not only an attack to the medical side but also a social problem that needs participation of the whole community from families to private and p u b l i c officials, MayorMaria Angela Garcia said during theIsang Libong Aklat, Isang Libong Bata, Isang Libong Buhay virtual event co-organized by United States Agency for International Development TB Platforms Project and Department of Health in partnership with Philippine Information Agen cy.
“Lahat po tayo ay bahagi sa problema, lahat din po tayo ay bahagi sa solusyon, (We are all part of the problem therefore, we are all part of the solusyon,” she stressed.
Since 2015, Dinalupihan is home to one of only two Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) TB satellite treatment centers in Bataan.
“Through this, persons who have MDR TB can undergo medication without the fear of leaving their families behind for treatment,” Garcia sai d.
Serving as the highlight of the virtual event was the turn-over of the Tibay ng Dibdib storybook to daycare centers in Dinalupihan, Bataan. Itdocumentsthestory of two sisters from Bu l acan who survivedTB at their very young ages – two and seven years old.
USAID sTBPlatforms in p ar t n er sh i p with Rogaciano Mercado Memorial Hospitalprepared thestorybook which details the challenges of the family in coping up with the treatment.
It explains how the family found out that their first daughter’s more than two weeks of cough and fever was because of TB. After several consultations and laboratory tests, they later found out that their elder daughter has TB as well. (PIA 3)