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Aquino Commits P-700 Million to TESDA Scholarship Fund
The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) is set to receive 700 million pesos for scholarship funds by the Aquino administration. TESDA helps Filipinos acquire vocational skills and technical training and provides certificate programs for their scholars. This education is a valuable asset that helps encourage both foreign and domestic employment of Filipinos.
We are currently pursuing the incorporation of TESDA training as an integral part of the livelihood program we are developing. I’ll post more about that as details are available. PAS firmly believes, as is clear from our mission statement, that when it is possible, we want to equip impoverished Filipinos to be able to provide for themselves. We are especially interested in any projects that will encourage long-term sustainability and complete solutions to poverty rather than temporary fixes.
MANILA, Philippines—While downsizing the government budget for next year, President Aquino has committed an allocation of some P700 million to fund the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority’s scholarship program for 2011 even as its new leadership pursues a probe into possible misuse of funds under the past administration, the agency’s chief has bared.
Tesda Director General Joel Villanueva said his agency secured the fund commitment after budget discussions on Monday, when Aquino expressed his support to continue training the unemployed in technical and vocational courses. Read the rest of the story here.
