According to Rolando Juanillo, the Provincial Director of the Technical Education Skills Development Authority (TESDA), this year’s PGMA scholarship vouchers have been allocated a budget of P 6,044,960.00.

In an interview over the phone, Juanillo said the slots were spread under different qualifications for National Certificate Level 2 category which required some four months of schooling at the earliest, after which the student can secure a certificate of training from the school as he/her ticket in seeking employment.

Among the technical and vocational courses in which the recipient scholars are now enrolled, the number of slots per course, and the corresponding schools are listed as follows:

Building-Wiring Technician — 50 slots — Saint Joseph College (SJC)
Consumer Electronic Servicing – 25 – do –
Slaughtering operations — 20 — a school in Cebu
Commercial cooking — 50 (25 at Systems Technology Institute and 25 at the College of Maasin)
Food and Beverage — 50 (25 STI, 25 CM)
Bartending — 25 — CM
Health Care Services — 75 — 25 each at SJC-Main, Southern Leyte State University (SLSU) -Bontoc, and Saint Thomas Aquinas College (STAC)-Sogod
Household Service – 23 — SJC-Main
Shielded Metal Arc Weilding — 50 — SJC Voch Tech Center
Computer Hardware Servicing — 136 — 34 each at SJC-Main, STI, Southern Leyte Business College (SLBC, formerly Southern Leyte Computer Institute, SLCI), and Saint James College-Malitbog.
Automotive Servicing — 25 — SJC Voch Tech
Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Servicing — 25 — SJC Voch Tech

To qualify for a PGMA scholar, a student must be at least 18 years old but no more than 55 years old, a high school graduate, a college undergraduate who has shifted course, and should present a result from the National College Assessment Examination (NCAE), Juanillo said.

Those with no NCAE papers would submit to a youth profiling as required by the office, he added.

Among the privileges and benefits included free tuition, otherwise known as training cost, free assessment, and each student would receive a training support fund.

Meanwhile, Juanillo also revealed that his office was also able to acquire 49 slots under the ladderized education program.

A ladderized education entails the integration of certain competency requirements in the regular degree courses of a certain educational institution that lasted only from five months to two years, Juanillo explained.

The 49 slots were distributed in various SLSU campuses in the province, Juanillo also said.
(PIA-Southern Leyte)

Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/default.asp?m=12&fi=p090619.htm&no=B3

Five (5) Security Guards – Two (2) guards per shift to be assigned to TESDA RO 8 and RTC, TESDA 8 Complex, Abucay, Tacloban City.

Interested bidders may contact the following telephone nos. 321-4366, 321-8121 or 325-3613 or visit the office anytime during office hours. Bid documents are available for issuance at Finance and Administrative Division of TESDA Regional Office VIII.

The following pre-qualification requirements in (2) two copies, duly certified must be submitted to the Chairman of Bids and Awards Committee, TESDA 8, Abucay, Tacloban City:

1. Letter of Intent
2. Letter of Authorization from the bidder authorizing BAC and/or its duly representative to verify pre-qualification documents
3. Current License to Operate issued by PNP FESAGS
4. SEC Registration (including Articles of Incorporations)
5. DTI Registration
6. Mayors Permit
7. Statement of the bidder that it is not “blacklisted or barred” from bidding by the government or any of its agencies, offices, corporations or LGU’s including non-inclusion in the consolidated blacklisting report issued by the GOP
8. Affidavit of Disclosure of Relations
9. List of Client currently under contract with; the agency and the number of guards assigned
10. Organizational Structure showing positions and names of key officials and personnel including company profile
11. List of firearms and their corresponding license
12. List of company equipments and other facilities
13. Latest PADPAO Certificate of good standing
14. Annual Registration Fee Return and Certificate of BIR Registration
15. Latest of Income Tax Return
16. Latest Audited Financial Statements
17. Latest SSS Certificate of Compliance
18. Latest Phil health Certificate of Premium Payments
19. Latest Pag-IBIG Fund Certificate of Membership and Contribution
20. DOLE/NLRC Clearance/ DOLE Certificate of Registration
21. Latest Tax Clearance
C. Pre-bid Conference is on May 12, 2009; 10:00AM at TESDA RO8 Conference Room
D. Deadline for submission of pre-qualification documents is on May 19, 2009; 5:00PM
E. Bidding for all pre-qualified bidders shall be on May 26, 2009; 10:00AM at TESDA RO8 Conference Room and should be addressed as follows:

Chairman, Bids and Awards Committee
TESDA Complex, Abucay, Tacloban City

E. Interested bidders are required to pay a non-refundable bidding fee amounting to TWO THOUSAND PESOS (P2,000.00)
F. TESDA RO 8 reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, thereof, to waive any formalities found therein, or to accept such bids or to award any part of the bid to any bidder whose bid is considered most advantageous to TESDA and or to the government.

(Sgd.) DOMINGO G. LAGRAMADA
Chairperson, Bids and Awards Committee

TESDA Region VIII –   3rd place Best Performing Region (out of 17 regions)

Out of 89 Provincial/District Offices:

TESDA-Southern Leyte Provincial Office – 1st place Best Performing Province
TESDA-Biliran Provincial Office – 2nd place Best Performing Province
TESDA-Eastern Samar Provincial Office – 8th place Best Performing Province

Out of 120 TESDA Technology Institutions (TTIs)

Arteche National Agricultural School, Arteche, E. Samar – 18th place Best Performing TTI
Samar National School of Arts & Trades, Taft, E. Samar – 24th place Best Performing TTI
Provincial Training Center, Catarman, No. Samar – 29th place Best Performing TTI

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who relentlessly pushes for the creation of more jobs locally and in such traditional labor-receiving countries in the Middle East as Kuwait and Qatar, is scheduled to visit the whole-day fair, according to TESDA’s Susan dela Rama.

Several government agencies, private companies and sectoral groups are joining in the project, which aims at matching the training and skills of the out-of-work adults and their dependents who are expected at the event.

The President “would see for herself the delivery of employment and training services to laid-off workers,” said Dela Rama.

Local government units have been tapped to initiate jobs-placement schemes for their respective out-of-work residents. (PNA)
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Source:  Gov.Ph News

TESDA representative, Ted Gatchalian, handed over to His Eminence Ricardo J. Cardinal Vidal, certificates allotted for 125 scholars the archdiocese would choose as recipients from poor families.

Gatchalian said beneficiaries may choose from a wide array of vocational or technical courses at any TESDA accredited institution or training center.

For his part, Cardinal Vidal expressed his gratitude to TESDA and the national government for the grant.

“In these difficult times, when people are losing their jobs, this scholarship grant will go a long way for the poor but deserving recipients,” the Cebu prelate said.

Cardinal Vidal, who celebrated his 78th birthday last February 6, expressed in the past days a growing concern over the rising number of laid-off workers in Cebu as a result of the global economic crisis.

He hopes that the scholarship will help alleviate the burdens of the families from whom the deserving students shall be chosen to avail of the grant.

The allocation of the grant to beneficiaries will be handled by the Archdiocese of Cebu’s Commission on Service, the social action arm of the archdiocese which was responsible for the recent tie-up.

The turn-over ceremony, held at Caritas building in Cebu City, was also attended by CBCP President and Jaro (Iloilo) Archbishop Angel N. Lagdameo, Dumaguete Bishop John F. Du, and Cebu Auxiliary Bishop Emilio Bataclan.

It was preceded by the inauguration and blessing of Cebu Caritas Health Center, which is run by volunteer doctors and other health workers, and a feeding program for 500 indigents sponsored by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO).

The events were held as part of the archdiocesan celebration of the 78th birthday of Cardinal Vidal. (Fr. Marnell Mejia)

Source:  CPCP News

This assurance of continuity in the delivery of techvoc programs and services In Mindanao was made by Secretary Augusto Boboy Syjuco, TESDA director general during the opening of the first jobs fair for Muslim workers in Pasay City last week.

Mindanaons including our Muslim brothers, says Secretary Syjuco, will be provided equitable access to TESDA’s quality skills training programs through its existing training institutions network.

Technical-vocational training programs, adds Secretary Syjuco, are available in four training modalities, namely, school-based, center-based, enterprise-based and community-based programs.  
Assessment and certification of workers’ competencies will also be pursued by TESDA in Mindanao. To encourage more middle-level workers to sit for skills assessment and certification, the free assessment service of TESDA (FAST) will be made available to them.

Scholarships under the PGMA-Training for Work Scholarships and Private Education Students Financial Assistance Program (PESFA) are available to Mindanaons. The scholarships, either full or partial, pay for the training costs for finishing courses in high demand jobs in the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector and other industries with critical skills requirements.

In the wake of the current peace and order situation in the area, Secretary Syjuco established a crisis management system for Mindanao to insure continuity in the delivery of training services in convergence with TESDA partners.
Source: Balitang TESDA

Director Sabulao said that the two training will be conducted at the Language Skills Institute, Regional Training Center, Barangay Abucay, Tacloban City, under the PGMA- Training for Work Scholarship Project with August 4, 2008 as the target date.

In this connection, Director Sabulao is inviting the media people through the Philippine Information Agency, who were invited last year and have signified their intention to avail of the programs or courses under the PGMA Training for Work Scholarship Project.

Director Sabulao disclosed that TESDA can arrange a special schedule for the media people who are willing to avail of the program. They can enroll either in the Finishing Course for Call Center Agents or Korean Language Course at the Language Skills Institute – Regional Training Center.

The PGMA Training for Work Scholarship Program was launched by President Arroyo in May of 2006 as tribute to the Filipino worker who needs more training in order to be employed. This program which is being implemented nationwide through the TESDA is hoped to make possible employment for Filipino workers.

Media practitioners who are interested to enrol may call the Regional Office of the Philippine Information Agency at telephone numbers 321-2029.

Other people who are interested may contact Ms. Elizabeth C. Canales, the TESDA PIO designate, at telephone numbers 321-4365 or 523-2660.

Criteria Required:
Trainees
* Male/female
* At least 18 years of age
* Must be in high school level
* Must have at least 2-3 years work experience as a mason helper

Project/Project Site:
* Must be a funded project by the NGO or local government unit (LGU) that has socio-economic impact such as school building construction/improvement, marginalized housing.
* Building specifications should enable trainees to perform the required competencies in the masonry trade
* Must have an area/room to conduct the lecture
* Must have a secured place/room to store training materials and tools.

Project Partner’s Role:

* Shall provide all other construction materials other than cement
* Must provide structural layout of the project
* Scout/screen participating trainees
* Provide lodging/accommodation of trainers/assessors when required