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SM’s Sy-Coson: Philippines not ready for K to 12

By Iris Gonzales | October 14, 2015 - 10:00am

Business tycoon Teresita Sy-Coson, the top executive of conglomerate SM Investments Corp., does not agree with the government’s...

News Commentary

Business and techvoc

By Isagani Cruz | September 30, 2015 - 10:00am

Last Sept. 15, the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) and the German-Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GPCCI) signed a memorandum of agreement to support dualized training in the Phil...

Education and Home

The educational system of the Asian region

By Preciosa S. Soliven | March 5, 2015 - 12:00am

The Philippines is the last country of Asia to complete the last two years (or senior high school) of the world standard 12-year Basic Education Program.

Education and Home

The TESDA-BIBB agreement

By Isagani Cruz | October 2, 2014 - 12:00am

In his statement at his press conference with Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Federal Republic of Germany last Sept. 19 in Berlin, President Benigno S. Aquino III said, “The cooperation between TESDA and BIBB...

Education and Home

PNoy to increase TESDA budget

By Alexis Romero | July 12, 2013 - 3:35pm

President Aquino is ready to increase substantially the budget of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) to provide more scholarships and create jobs, a Cabinet official said.

Headlines

6 out of 10 TESDA grads get jobs within a year

By Jovan Cerda | June 14, 2013 - 12:18pm

Six out of 10  or 62 percent of graduates from technical vocational education and training courses secure a job within...

Campus

Talisay councilor ditches own proposal

By Garry B. Lao | June 13, 2013 - 12:00am

Talisay City Councilor Edward Alesna has withdrawn his proposal which seeks the conversion of the Lagtang Public Market into a technical-vocational school or an extension of the Talisay City College, and leave the...

Freeman Metro Cebu

DBP presents scholars

March 6, 2012 - 12:00am

The Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) presented to President Aquino last month representatives of the 455 scholars of its DBP Endowment for Education Program (DEEP), a corporate social responsibility project...

Banking

TESDA: More college graduates taking up vocational courses

By Mayen Jaymalin | August 25, 2011 - 12:00am

More nurses and other professionals are now opting to take up vocational courses just so they could get employed.

Education and Home

Most graduating HS students only fit for vocational courses

By Jessica Ann R. Pareja | April 1, 2011 - 12:00am

Seventy percent of the graduating students from public high schools in Cebu City are fit only for vocational courses as shown in the results of the aptitude test conducted for incoming beneficiaries of the city government’s...

Cebu News