"By the end of President Aquino's term in2016, we would like to be remembered as having contributed 5.3 million TESDA-certified workers or TESDA Specialistas as we proudly call them, who will find work or manage their own small businesses and earn incomes that they plough back to the country through expenditures and savings," Villanueva said in a speech.
"The direction we are taking is to reach the grassroots and empower the reached with quality technical education and skills development interventions that lead to employment of our training beneficiaries, providing them incomes to improve the quality of their lives and the living conditions of the communities,"he said.
The TESDA chief flagged the attention of the agency's officials to meet the numbers of persons enrolled, graduates, assessed and certified and eventually monitored as employed and with incomes.
He instructed them to make available relevant details on the courses or qualifications, and assess which are among the key employment generators in a particular area.
TESDA should also explore further convergence initiatives with other government agencies and encourage them to aggressively pursue public private partnerships in implementing technical education andskills development activities which could help alleviate poverty, including the adoption of municipalities identified by the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) as focus areas.
Villanueva cited the agency's gains in the past year that he said helped it reach new frontiers, including, the successful PNoy Bayanihan School Furniture Production Project that converted confiscated logs into school furniture.
The project was in partnership with the Department of Education, Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation.
TESDA also actively participated in the K to 12Summit, which helped it define its role under the expanded Basic Education Curriculum. It also came to the aid of areas stricken by calamity,particularly through its project that gathered water lilies and transformed them into materials for bags.
Recently, it launched its first classroom on wheels through the Mobile Training Plus Park and Train bus, which featured a 100-seater vehicle equipped with computers for mobile training.
Villanueva also enjoined the filed units to strengthen its linkages with the media in advancing the agency's programs. He directed all its regional units to regularly come up with updates to inform the public about TESDA’s accomplishments. <tesda.gov.ph>
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