TESDA probes unqualified techvoc schools
TECHNICAL vocational schools implementing scholarship programs of the Technical Education Skills and Development Authority (TESDA) are now under review due to reports that these are not qualified to offer techvoc education or are not properly implementing TESDA’s guidelines.
Joel Pilotin, new TESDA provincial director in Pangasinan, said a team from the TESDA central office is going around the province to check the performance, training capabilities and facilities of the accredited techvoc schools.
Pilotin told the KBP Forum that TESDA entered into agreements with partner schools to implement techvoc education curriculum and are, therefore, expected to implement the guidelines properly and all the scholarship programs of the agency are properly implemented with partners techvoc schools.
Pilotin maintained that a training program implemented by tech-voc schools would be useless if the trainee has no document to show certifying that he or she is already a skilled worker.
He cited as an example the partnership between the provincial government of Pangasinan and TESDA on the conduct of the former’s mobile skills training program, TESDA is tasked to conduct competency assessment.
He assured the trainees who complete the mobile skills training program on carpentry and electrical installation will be issued National Certificate Level II, which they can present to industries locally and abroad where they intend to work.
In the case of techvoc schools where many TESDA scholars are enrolled, their trainors must have trainors’ methodology level certificate, a national certificate, that will qualify them to teach in techvoc schools.
He said there have been reports that some trainors of techvoc schools do not have trainors’ methodology certificate and worse, some schools do not have trainors and lacking in facilities at all.
He added that a national technical audit for all techvoc schools was
ordered by TESDA Secretary Guiling Mamondiong to correct the situation.
He assured that findings of the audit team will be discussed with the techvoc schools concerned and those who will not comply will face sanctions and penalty.
At the same time, millions of pesos in TESDA scholarship grants are available in Pangasinan with all six congressmen committing amounts for the training of their respective constituents. (Leonardo Micua)
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