MP-TESDA sets 140 scholarship slots

By Juliet B. Saley

SABANGAN, Mountain Province -- The Technical Education, Skills and Development Authority has allotted the Provincial Training Center here with 140 slots under the Training for Work Scholarship Program (TWSP) which will be conducted this last quarter until next year.

           

Engineer Glenn Murphy, TESDA provincial training administrator said of the total slots, 48 were allotted for automotive servicing, and 46 for electrical installation maintenance and shielded metal arc welding.

Murphy said slots for each category will be conducted in two batches.

One batch of the 46 slots for EIM will be conducted in the municipality of Paracelis while the other batch will be conducted in Natonin.

Trainings for the automotive servicing and SMAW will be conducted at the PTC.

           

Under this program, aside from free trainings, beneficiaries are also entitled to undergo free competency assessment after they have completed number of training hours.

TESDA has also allotted 180 slots of TWSP to Meridian Paramedical and Technical College in Bontoc.

According to Melita Pinic of TESDA provincial office, 100 of the total slots are allotted for commercial cooking and 80 for housekeeping.

Pinic said acceptance of application is ongoing at MPTC.

Qualified to avail of the program are high school graduates, must be at least 18 years old and must not have availed of the TWSP from 2010 to present.

Given priority are the unemployed and or job ready.

Applicants are required to submit barangay and police clearance, medical certificate, youth profiling for starting career (YP4SC) or national career assessment examination (NCAE), duly accomplished TWSP form, one  copy of 2” x 2” ID picture, and two  copies 1” x 1” ID picture.

For more inquiries, visit the MPTC at the 3rd Floor Chakas Building, Poblacion, Bontoc or TESDA provincial office located at the 2nd Floor multi-purpose building, Bontoc.