September 16, 2016
The Youth for Sustainable Development Assembly (YSDA) conducted a one-day training workshop activity with the focus on the employment of the young people, entitled “Employability of Young People thru TESDA”through collaborative workshop and series of lectureslast September 16, 2017 at the local municipality of Tanay, Rizal with the help and assistance of TESDA Tanay headed by Mr. BienvenidoMagpantay. The said training was participated by the other members in the local government with aims to bring awareness and to give opportunities to young people with the programs provided and supported by TESDA. The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) is the government agency tasked to manage and supervise technical education and skills development (TESD) in the Philippines. It was created by virtue of Republic Act 7796, otherwise known as the “Technical Education and Skills Development Act of 1994”. The said Act integrated the functions of the former National Manpower and Youth Council (NMYC), the Bureau of Technical-Vocational Education of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports (BTVE-DECS) and the Office of Apprenticeship of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). It prioritizes the training of technical and vocational courses to improve the skills of the young people in the face of rapidly changing technology.
The training emphasized and tackled the steps on how to prepare young people into the future employment such as the internship and the skills trainingwhich is necessary for the preparation to employmentand how this two will affect the employability chances of the young people. The internship in the first place, projects a positive outcome-based process as the young people will enable to gain firsthand experience of the real job. There would be awareness and familiarity with the job as well as the exposure to the work environment, on the part of the intern as an effective manner to create a far greater understanding of the employment.
Furthermore, it can also satisfy one’s requirements to be fully qualified in the position. The programs focusing also on cultivating and developing the skills of the young peopledone throughchains of trainings, workshops, orientation and seminar, ensuring that the trainees are fully-equipped with employable skills (both technical and soft skills), work knowledge, and attitudes at the end of the training.It was also discussed in the workshop the roles and responsibility of each in terms of help in the progression of the employment and employability factor in the country.
TESDA offers variety of training programs and services such as TVET Programs which has 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, enterprise-based training through DTS/apprenticeship and community-based training in convergence with the LGU’s. TESDA creates opportunities and training provision for people to become responsible and productive. The opportunities offered are mostly technical-vocational and specialized in short-courses. Some of the courses are Foreign Language Courses, Automotive, Bartending, Baking & Pastry, Caregiver Training, Cosmetology and Call Center Training to give a few. TESDA develops competency-based 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 level in the Philippine TVET Qualifications Framework (PTQF). They assess the performance of the trainee and issues certification (National Certificate I, II, III) depends on the competency standards met by the trainee.
The Youth for Sustainable Development Assembly (YSDA) conducted a one-day training workshop activity with the focus on the employment of the young people, entitled “Employability of Young People thru TESDA”through collaborative workshop and series of lectureslast September 16, 2017 at the local municipality of Tanay, Rizal with the help and assistance of TESDA Tanay headed by Mr. BienvenidoMagpantay. The said training was participated by the other members in the local government with aims to bring awareness and to give opportunities to young people with the programs provided and supported by TESDA. The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) is the government agency tasked to manage and supervise technical education and skills development (TESD) in the Philippines. It was created by virtue of Republic Act 7796, otherwise known as the “Technical Education and Skills Development Act of 1994”. The said Act integrated the functions of the former National Manpower and Youth Council (NMYC), the Bureau of Technical-Vocational Education of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports (BTVE-DECS) and the Office of Apprenticeship of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). It prioritizes the training of technical and vocational courses to improve the skills of the young people in the face of rapidly changing technology.
The training emphasized and tackled the steps on how to prepare young people into the future employment such as the internship and the skills trainingwhich is necessary for the preparation to employmentand how this two will affect the employability chances of the young people. The internship in the first place, projects a positive outcome-based process as the young people will enable to gain firsthand experience of the real job. There would be awareness and familiarity with the job as well as the exposure to the work environment, on the part of the intern as an effective manner to create a far greater understanding of the employment.
Furthermore, it can also satisfy one’s requirements to be fully qualified in the position. The programs focusing also on cultivating and developing the skills of the young peopledone throughchains of trainings, workshops, orientation and seminar, ensuring that the trainees are fully-equipped with employable skills (both technical and soft skills), work knowledge, and attitudes at the end of the training.It was also discussed in the workshop the roles and responsibility of each in terms of help in the progression of the employment and employability factor in the country.
TESDA offers variety of training programs and services such as TVET Programs which has 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, enterprise-based training through DTS/apprenticeship and community-based training in convergence with the LGU’s. TESDA creates opportunities and training provision for people to become responsible and productive. The opportunities offered are mostly technical-vocational and specialized in short-courses. Some of the courses are Foreign Language Courses, Automotive, Bartending, Baking & Pastry, Caregiver Training, Cosmetology and Call Center Training to give a few. TESDA develops competency-based 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 level in the Philippine TVET Qualifications Framework (PTQF). They assess the performance of the trainee and issues certification (National Certificate I, II, III) depends on the competency standards met by the trainee.
