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Thematic Areas: Youth Employment | Greening TVET | Access, Equity & Quality | TVET in a Digital World | Other Themes
Our Key Programmes & Projects: i-hubs: Skills for Innovation Hubs | YEM: Youth Employment in the Mediterranean | BILT: Bridging Innovation and Learning in TVET | UNEVOC TVET Leadership Programme | WYSD: World Youth Skills Day
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The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) is the government agency tasked to manage and supervise technical education and skills development (TESD) in the Philippines. It was created by virtue of Republic Act 7796, otherwise known as the “Technical Education and Skills Development Act of 1994”. The said Act integrated the functions of the former National Manpower and Youth Council (NMYC), the Bureau of Technical-Vocational Education of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports (BTVE-DECS) and the Office of Apprenticeship of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
TESDA sets direction, promulgates relevant standards, and implements programs geared towards a quality-assured and inclusive technical education and skills development and certification system.
Section 2 of RA 7796 states that it is TESDA’s mandate to provide relevant, efficient, accessible, and high quality technical education and skills development in support of the development of globally-competitive Filipino middle-level workforce responsive to and in accordance with Philippine development goals and priorities.
TESDA’s core business basically consists of three mutually-reinforcing elements. These are direction setting, standards setting and systems development and support to TVET provision. Underpinning these three elements is institutional capacity building.
| Sharing knowledge about TVET | Secondary focus | ||||
| Developing knowledge | Primary focus | ||||
| Developing and building capacities | Primary focus | ||||
| Teachers | Primary focus | ||||
| Researchers | Secondary focus | ||||
| Policy makers | Secondary focus | ||||
| Private sector | Primary focus | ||||
| Greening of TVET institutions and skills | Interested to learn | |||||
| Migration | Interested to learn | |||||
| OER and Online Learning | Interested to learn | |||||
| Equity of access in TVET | Interested to contribute | |||||
| Gender equality in TVET | Interested to contribute | |||||
| Fostering entrepreneurship | Interested to contribute | |||||
| Industry 4.0 / Smart production | Interested to learn | |||||
| Capacity development projects | Highly interested | ||||
| Policy oriented projects | Highly interested | ||||
| Knowledge development | Highly interested | ||||
| Workshops and conferences | Highly interested | ||||
| Within my cluster | Highly interested | ||||
| With Africa | Moderately interested | ||||
| With the Arab States | Moderately interested | ||||
| With Asia and the Pacific | Highly interested | ||||
| With Europe, CIS and North America | Moderately interested | ||||
| With Latin America and the Caribbean | Moderately interested | ||||
