TESDA Misamis Occidental Provincial Office
The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) was established through the enactment of Republic Act No. 7796 otherwise known as the “Technical Education and Skills Development Act of 1994”, which was signed into law by President Fidel V. Ramos on August 25, 1994. This Act aims to encourage the full participation of and mobilize the industry, labor, local government units and technical-vocational institutions in the skills development of the country’s human resources.
In view of the need to provide equitable access and provision of TESD programs to the growing TVET clients, TESDA continues to undertake direct training provisions. There are four training modalities school-based, center-based, enterprise-based and community-based. These are being done with TESDA’s infrastructure in place – 57 TESDA administered schools, 60 training center, enterprize-based training through DTS/apprenticeship and community-based training in convergence with the LGU’s.
TESDA develops competency standards for middle-level skilled workers. These are in the form of units of competency containing descriptors for acceptable work performance. These are packaged into qualifications corresponding to critical jobs and occupations in the priority industry sectors. The qualifications correspond to a specific levels in the Philippine TVET Qualifications Framework (PTQF).
Program registration in UTPRAS is the mandatory registration of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) programs with TESDA. It is the system that ensures compliance of Technical Vocational Institutions (TVIs) with the minimum requirements as prescribed under the promulgated training regulation to include among others curricular programs, faculty and staff qualifications, physical sites and facilities, tools, equipment, supplies and materials and similar requirements prior to the issuance of the government authority to offer or undertake technical vocational education programs.
TESDA has a Registry of Certified Workers which provides information on the pool of certified workers for certain occupations nationwide. TESDA also has accredited assessment centers as well as the competency assessors who conduct competency assessment process for persons applying for certification.
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Programs aim to address equity and access by providing direct financial assistance to deserving TVET enrollees across all regions in the country. The scholarship programs currently being implemented include the following:
This program was established through Section 8 of Republic Act No. 8545, otherwise known as the Expanded Government Assistance to Students and Teachers in Private Education (GASTPE) Act. PESFA offers educational grants to qualified and deserving college freshmen both in degree and non-degree courses. The program was launched in May 2006 with funding from the Office of the President and mainstreamed in the regular budget in 2008. This program is a response to the clamor of industry to address the critical skills shortages in priority sectors, particularly the Business Process Outsourcing, metals and engineering, construction and tourism, among others. STEP is a community-based specialty training program that addresses specific skill needs of the communities and promote employment through entrepreneurial, self-employment and service-oriented activities. Training programs offered are generally short-term or modules based on the Training Regulations promulgated by TESDA.In pursuit of attaining the Philippine Development Plan’s goal of inclusive growth and poverty reduction, and promoting good governance at the local level, the Human Development and Poverty Reduction Cluster (HDPRC), through the Bottom-up Budgeting (BuB) Oversight Agencies, shall implement the Bottom-up Budgeting (BuB). This program seeks to increase citizen’s access to local service delivery through a demand-driven budget planning process and to strengthen government accountability in local public service provision.
The Barangay Kabuhayan Skills Training Program provides skills training opportunities for the beneficiaries in the 4th, 5th, and 6th class municipalities to equip them with employable skills to make them economically productive though wage or self-employment.
The target beneficiaries are the residents of the 4th, 5th and 6th municipalities and barangays nationwide who are at least fifteen (15) years old at the start of the training program and are Filipino citizens.
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Industry Partners of TESDA Misamis Occidental participated in the Partnership Forum last November 17, 2016, at Grand Caprice Restaurant, Limketkai Mall, Cagayan de Oro City. The event was a half- day forum that were attended by the various TESDA offices and industry partners from region IX, X, XI, XII and ARMM.
Ninety (90) farmers and members of the irrigation association identified by the Department of Agriculture (DA) and National Irrigation Administration (NIA) and traced through the Local Government of the Municipality of Plaridel graduated from TESDA’s Intervention Program for El Niño Affected Areas in 2016 on November 24, 2016 at the Provincial Training Center – Plaridel.
Working together the TESDA Misamis Occidental Provincial Office, the Provincial Training Center, the Oroquieta Agro-Industrial School and the Misamis Occidental Provincial Police Office agree to pool resources to provide free training to the surrenderees of the Oplan Tokhang in Misamis Occidental.