Top Mt Province execs urge support for tech-voc programs

BONTOC, Mountain Province – Concerned officials were urged to make the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) more relevant in the province so more people can benefit from its services and provide training to people to help them find employment.

Provincial Administrator Amador Batay-an, representing  Gov. Bonifacio  Lacwasan, posed this challenge  to heads of technical-vocational institutions(TVIs),  assessment center managers, community training and employment coordinators(CTECs),  and members of the Provincial Technical Education and Skills Development Committee (PTESDC) during the Technical and Vocational Education and Training forum  here last week.

TESDA has been offering and conducting trainings for interested individuals to equip them with the necessary skills to find job or start a livelihood, but it   needs the support of the partners particularly the TVIs and the CTECs especially that the trainings  are either school-based, center-based, enterprised-based or  community-based.

In support to TESDA’s programs in the province, Batay-an said the provincial government appropriated a financial assistance amounting to P400, 000 for the agency.

Christine Oliquiano of TESDA here, said the TVET forum with the battle cry “TESDA Abot Lahat” aimed to have a common understanding and appreciation of programs and services of the agency.

He said it was designed to draw out issues and to identify possible industry needs to be able to come up with policy resolutions to address the needs.

In the same occasion, TESDA- Mt. Province provincial director Eric Ueda inducted the new set of officers of the Mountain Province Association of TVIs.

                They are Derick Wooden as president; vice president, Roger Ekid; secretary - Winifred Cue; assistant secretary, Gretchen Paleg; treasurer, Flor de Lina Layog; auditor, Janice Bosaing and business manager Lovely Humalbang.  

Engineer Philip Akilith serves as their consultant. -- JDP/JBS-PIA CAR, Mountain Province