MARAWI CITY, Lanao del Sur, July 26 (PIA) -- Technical Education Skills and Development Authority (Tesda) Provincial Director Tarhata S. Mapandi said they are intensifying their employment tracer study to determine where their graduates have landed.
Mapandi said they are currently gathering data to get the employment status of their graduates starting 2011.
She said the employment tracer study, which is now a part of their regular activities, will help determine how Tesda skills' trainings have helped their graduates.
Based on their records, a total of 4,972 individuals have enrolled in the various skills training offered by Tesdea in the year 2011. In the same year, the Tesda provincial office has also assessed 893 individuals and certified 590 of them.
The provincial director disclosed that initial findings of the tracer study shows that some of their graduates have opened-up their own shops while most of them went abroad.
In addition, Mapandi also reported that as of June 30 this year, Tesda skills' trainings have benefited 2,167 individuals in the entire province.
Around 782 of these individuals have availed of the community-based trainings, 806 for the center-based trainings and 579 for the school-based trainings.
Eighty-three percent or 1,808 of the trained individuals came from the 1st congressional district of the province, which includes Marawi City, while the remaining 17 percent or 359 came from the 2nd district.
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