MARAWI CITY, Lanao del Sur, Feb. 23 (PIA) --- The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) here unveiled its achievements for the year 2010 in providing Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in the province.
The TESDA-Lanao del Sur presentation during the Provincial TVET Forum held yesterday, February 22, at the Provincial/City Manpower Development Center (PCMDC), showed that it has exceeded its skills training target for 2010 by more than 24 percent from 3,100 to 3,857 beneficiaries.
Sultan Yahya Manalocon, PCMDC administrator, said their skills training program is classified into four areas: Community-Based Training, Center-Based, School-Based and Community-Based Training and Enterprise Development.
He said their School-Based training has benefited 1,227 individuals while 964 have availed of the Community-Based Training and Enterprise Development, 876 for the Community-Based, and 809 for the Center-Based.
In terms of the type of beneficiaries, Manalocon revealed that 2,090 were out-of-school youth (OSY), 156 were in-school youth (ISY), three were persons with disability (PWD), 65 were employed and 1,098 were unemployed.
He further revealed that 75% or 2,684 of the trained individuals came from the 1st District of the province while 25% or 907 came from the 2nd District.
The 1st District covers 17 municipalities and the city of Marawi while the 2nd District covers 22 municipalities.
Aside from the offering of 14 skills training courses, Manolocon likewise added that the TESDA provincial office also provides career guidance and counselling, training methodology course, blue desk and technical consultancy services.
In a separate interview with Provincial Director Tarhata Mapandi, she disclosed that they have signed a memorandum of agreement with Tactical Foundation Training and Assessment Center, Inc. and Discovery Internet Services to strengthen the tracer and impact study of all their graduates.
"We will be intensifying our impact study this 2011 to find out how the trainings helped our graduates, as well as to determine what areas in our operations need improvements," she further said. (Apipa Bagumbaran/PIA Marawi)
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