TESDA offers new training for techvoc graduates
To upgrade their skills, the government is offering new training to Technical Education and Skills Development Authority ( TESDA) graduates.
“As part of lifelong learning and continuing skills enhancement of the workforce, skills training programs will be made available to TESDA alumni or the previous recipients of TESDA training and scholarship programs,” TESDA chief Guiling Mamondiong said.
The new program is part of the 17-point Reform and Development Agenda of TESDA for the next six years, Mamondiong added.
The objective of the program is to strengthen the qualifications of Filipino workers and ensure that they are able to take on jobs requiring updated knowledge and skills.
“This is aimed to further improve the technical competence and excellence of the Filipino trained workers and keep them abreast with modern technologies for them to upgrade their skills,” Mamondiong said.
TESDA graduates who want to avail of the program can go to the nearest provincial and regional office for details.
“TESDA will also be able to establish communication links with its graduates, immediately inform them of any job opportunities for skilled workers which may suit their qualifications, and possibly supplement their income,“Mamondiong added.
Apart from the continuing program for TESDA alumni, other programs in the 17-point Reform and Development Agenda are the barangay-based scholarship program; on-line scholarship application; walk-in scholarship application; technical audit of TVET schools and programs; skills training for drug dependents, entrepreneurs and family enterprises, inmates and their families;
OFWs reintegration; special skills program for the indigenous people; expanded training program for women and PWDs; global access to/on-line database of TVET graduates and certified skilled workers;
Strengthening of linkages with the agro-industrial sector, with foreign skills training/ funding institutions; linkages with state universities and colleges, local universities and colleges.