The Philippine ExperienceThe Philippine Experience

Milagros Dawa-HernandezDeputy Director General

Technical Education and Skills Development Authority

Education to Achieve 21st Competencies and Skills for All: Respecting the Past to Move Toward the Future

APEC SYMPOSIUM 15-17 January 2007

Xi’an, China

“the AUTHORITY in TVET in the Philippines”

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 country. It was created under RA No, 7796,

otherwise known as the “Technical education and Skills Development Act

of 1994

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* Presidential Coordinating Taskforce for Education ** Department of Labor and Employment

Poverty Alleviation through Economic GrowthNational DevelopmentChallenges

NTESDP Vision

Development Objectives

Three-Pronged Direction

Private Sector-Led and Market-Driven TVETPro-Active Job-Skill Matching (SEEK-FIND-TRAIN)

Life Long Learning Mechanism/Ladderization and Articulation Expanding Scholarships and Other Incentive Support Services

Competency-based TVETEnhancing Quality Assurance Mechanisms

Entrepreneurship/Technopreneurship in TVETConvergence in TVET*

Key Result Areas

Strategies

Development ImperativesLabor Market Conditions

OverseasLocal

Global CompetitivenessGlobal Competitiveness

Social IntegrationSocial Integration Rural DevelopmentRural Development

Improved Access and Equity in TVET

Enhanced Employability of TVET Graduates

Financial RequirementsOrganizational Competence

TVET Interventions

Supply MatchesDemand

Decent andProductive

Employment

Quality TVET

Provision

* Includes resource mobilization

GLOBALLY COMPETENT

FILIPINO WORKFORCE

Improved Assessment and Certification

Higher EducationHigher Education

TVETTVET

Basic Basic EducationEducation

VISIONGlobally Competent Filipino

Workforce

EDUCATION AND TRAINING SECTOREDUCATION AND TRAINING SECTOR

TVET offers itself as major human resource investment choice for Filipino worker

TVET provides the critical skills in right quality, quantity & timing

TVET helps bridge communities, domestic and global markets

ECONOMY

FILIPINO HUMAN RESOURCE

COMMUNITIES

PRIMARY TARGET

UNEMPLOYED 2.8 M

UNDEREMPLOYED 7.3M

GLOBALIZATIONECONOMIC COOPERATION

• Trade Liberalization

• Investment Inflows

• Movement of Human Capital

• Wider Employment Opportunities

• Demand for Quality,Competitive and Flexible Workers

HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

Domestic Labor Market

Supply / Demand

• globalization• trade liberalization• information and

communications technology

• international cooperation agreements

• President’s 8 by ’08 Goals

• Presidential Ten-point Agenda

• 6 to 10 million jobs• Industry Requirements• GOAL: economic growth and stability

• Medium-term PhilippineDevelopment Plan

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Right QuantityRight Quality

Real Time Delivery

BRIDGING THE LABOR SUPPLY AND DEMAND GAP

Department of Labor Opportunities Program, 10 November 2005, PICC, Pasay City

HRD INITIATIVES

HRD INITIATIVES

GLOBAL FILIPINO CITIZEN WORKER

LaborDemand

TVET TVET Development Development

LoopLoop

• Labor Market Intelligence (LMI)• Youth Profiling for Starring Career

(YP4SC)• Language Skills Institute (LSI)

(workplace language)

Private and Public• 31 TESDA Systems • LGUs• Schools/Centers• Private Tek-Bok

Institutions

Scholarships• Private Education

Student FundAssistance (PESFA)

• Training-For-WorkScholarships (TWSP)

• Ladderized EducationProgram (LEP)

• Free Assessment Service of TESDA (FAST)

• Private Assessment Centers for Fees

QUALITY ASSURED PHILIPPINE TECHNICAL EDUCATION SYSTEM

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Development Plans/Government Policies and Priorities/Public Investment

StakeholdersConsultation

Development ofCompetency Standards

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DevelopmentOf Assessment

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Comparability of Competencies Comparability of Competencies and Mutual Recognition of Skills and and Mutual Recognition of Skills and Qualifications (MRSQ) with APEC Qualifications (MRSQ) with APEC member economiesmember economies

Expansion of strategic partnerships Expansion of strategic partnerships in TVET with APEC member in TVET with APEC member economies economies

TVET is the best and strategic option. Every Filipino worker empowered Every Filipino worker empowered through TVET and enable to find through TVET and enable to find

gainful employment brings with him gainful employment brings with him lifelife--changing conditions to five other changing conditions to five other Filipinos in his household, such is theFilipinos in his household, such is the

POWER OF SIX (6) IN TVET HUMAN CAPITAL FORMATION.