TESDA opens new school in Cordillera that offers high-level tech-voc education and training

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Cordillera - The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has opened a new training institution, the Cordillera State Institute of Technical Education (CSITE), which aims to offer high-level technical vocational education and training (TVET).

TESDA Deputy Director General for TESD Operations Aniceto D. Bertiz III, together with Baguio Rep. Marquez O. Go, led the inauguration ceremony in Baguio City, Benguet last Sept. 9.

“Through this endeavor, the institution will play a pivotal role in primarily helping students and out-of-school youths and residents from low-income families, including persons with disabilities,” he said in his message.

“[It will make them] become more productive, self-reliant, and to be developed into globally competitive middle-to-high-level skilled labor force to hasten the social and economic development of the entire CAR,” he added.

Under the supervision of TESDA, the CSITE will be the integration of the Baguio City School of Arts and Trades (BCSAT), the Regional and Provincial Training Centers, and other public training institutions in the region.

It shall endeavor to bring about greater industry-academe collaboration and critical partnerships with local and international institutions to forge mutual skills benchmarking standards, program exchange, and internship training to equip graduates with competencies and preferred job access.

CSITE will offer wide array of training and livelihood courses in the areas of agriculture, industrial technology and hard trades, tourism and hospitality, health and well-wellness, business, computer and informational technology, among others.

“This favorable development has come at a very opportune time as we enter the Fourth Industrial Revolution. CSITE will lead to more responsive course offerings and deliver higher level programs,” Bertiz pointed out.

“CSITE is the very first in the Philippines and can be a model to other regions. Truly this feat is remarkable for the region,” he added.

Also present during the event were National Institute for Technical Education and Skills Development Executive Director David Bungallon and TESDA CAR Officer-in-Charge Regional Director Jovencio Ferrer Jr.

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TESDA offers Free agriculture-related courses online

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Cordillera - The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has open two new agriculture related courses that interested individuals can take via its TESDA Online Program website for free.

The two courses that can be availed online are Aquaponics Food Production and Organic Agriculture Production NC II.

Organic Agriculture Production NC II

Learners of this course will gain the competences that they need to produce organic products like organic chickens, vegetables, fertilizer and concoctions. 

Aquaponic Food Production

Participants of this course will acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes that they must have in order to install and maintain aquaponic units. 

Interested individuals can learn these two courses at their own pace and space using the TESDA Online Program. 

All they have to do  is open the website, register an account and choose the course that they want to enroll 

For the full guidelines follow the instructions below:

Open the Login page.

1. On the TESDA Online Program website click on the Login hyperlink.

Login

2. After clicking the “Login” hyperlink, you will be taken to the login page. On the “Is this your first time here?” column, click on the “New Account” hyperlink.

New Account

3. Fill out the form, fields marked with asterisk (*) are mandatory. You cannot proceed with the registration unless you provide the information. After filling out the form, click on the “Create my new account” button.

Form

4. After creating your account, a message will be sent to your email address. The email contains a link to activate your account, simply click on the link and your account will be activated.

HOW TO ENROLL IN A COURSE

1. Before you can enroll in a course, make sure that you had created an account in our TOP website.

2. Login to the TOP website using your registered username and password.

3. Once logged in, you will be taken to the TOP front page. The list of available courses is displayed on this page. Click on the link of the course that you want to enroll in.

4. Next, click on the link of the module you wish to take.

5. On the left side of the navigation pane, under the administration panel, click on the “Enrol me in this course” link.

6. A message box will appear asking if you really want to enroll in the module. Click on the “Yes” button to proceed.

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Job Fair: TESDA-CAR to hold 'World Cafe of Opportunities' on August 25

Cordillera - Tech-Voc graduates in the Cordillera Administrative region and nearby municipalities may now start preparing their resumes and heed up to Baguio City to participate in the nationwide Job Fair dubbed 'World Cafe of Opportunities' (WCO) to be held by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority-Cordillera on 25 August (Sunday). 

The WCO is an annual job fair that aims to connect government and private agencies to Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) graduates which is also a highlight of the National Tech-Voc Day celebrated every 25th of August.

"Consistent to our advocacy "TESDA Abot Lahat", TESDA shall continue to implement Job Linkaging and Networking Services (JoLiNS). Throught JoLiNS, TVET graduates will be linked to possible employment opportunities and one of it's strategies is the conduct of WCO", TESDA-CAR OIC Regional Director Manuel B. Wong said via PNA.

Events Management Committee Chairperson Joel Piloten explained that the WCO will serve as a ' one-stop-shop" not only for TVET graduates/alumni, but also entrepreneurs, companies/industries with job vacancies, and returning overseas Filipino workers and their qualified beneficiaries where national government agencies, private companies, tech-voc institutions and financing institutions converge in strategic locations to offer all possible employment, training and financing opportunities and facilitate higher job skill matching.

Among the opportunities at the event are job vacancies in private companies, entrepreneurship orientation, financial opportunities and employability skills orientation.

According to Piloten, WCO targets to serve at least 1,000 certified TVET graduates/alumni with 15 percent hired-on-the-spot.

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